{"id":638039,"date":"2025-12-17T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638039\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:47:19","slug":"world-cup-prices-northern-ireland-fans-facing-big-costs-if-michael-oneills-men-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638039\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup prices: Northern Ireland fans facing big costs if Michael O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s men qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland will play their first game of the World Cup against Canada at Toronto's BMO Field if they reach the Finals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/acd7238a-39a6-4b3b-bab9-f80f2171a224.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Northern Ireland will play their first game of the World Cup against Canada at Toronto&#8217;s BMO Field if they reach the Finals<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Many Northern Ireland fans face a bill starting at almost \u00a33,000 if Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s side qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fifa have been criticised over the pricing structure for next summer\u2019s tournament, with loyal supporters facing the prospect of shelling out hundreds of pounds to attend some games. Last night football\u2019s world governing body reacted by releasing a small number of cheaper tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland will play their first game of the World Cup against Canada at Toronto&#8217;s BMO Field if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1999,1144,8538,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-638039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-adrian-rutherford","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115734751230076015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}