{"id":667835,"date":"2026-01-01T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:51:14","slug":"tomas-cosgrove-summer-football-and-boxing-day-games-dont-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667835\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas Cosgrove: Summer football and Boxing Day games don&#8217;t balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larne captain Tomas Cosgrove\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cosgrove.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)\">Larne captain Tomas Cosgrove<\/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)\">Larne captain Tomas Cosgrove insists seasonal change must be fair on the players and he views the League of Ireland model as more appetising than a May to February plan.<\/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)\">Northern Ireland Football League Chief Executive Gerard Lawlor revealed to Sunday Life Sport that a decision on summer football coming to the Irish League will be taken early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larne captain Tomas Cosgrove Larne captain Tomas Cosgrove insists seasonal change must be fair on the players and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[86658,1144,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-667835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-larne-fc","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115822532349057383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667835","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=667835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}