{"id":646694,"date":"2025-12-21T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/646694\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:44:20","slug":"northern-ireland-football-conor-mcmenamin-and-lee-bonis-can-aid-nis-push-for-world-cup-play-off-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/646694\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Conor McMenamin and Lee Bonis can aid NI&#8217;s push for World Cup Play-Off joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lee Bonis deserves a recall to the Northern Ireland squad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1bfeb742-981e-46e4-9a1d-324bb14ba864.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)\">Lee Bonis deserves a recall to the Northern Ireland squad<\/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)\">Ahead of Northern Ireland\u2019s mouth-watering World Cup Play-Off Semi-Final in Italy in March, I have been keeping an eye on a couple of our currently out-of-favour players who are making a late surge to be included in Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s squad.<\/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)\">To gain international status in any sport is a wonderful achievement, and for our footballers, the very thought of playing for your country at the World Cup has to be the absolute pinnacle in anyone\u2019s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Bonis deserves a recall to the Northern Ireland squad Ahead of Northern Ireland\u2019s mouth-watering World Cup Play-Off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29314,1144,8538,4287,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-646694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-liam-beckett","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115758804846958923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646694","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=646694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}