{"id":717478,"date":"2026-01-24T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/717478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:49:15","slug":"irish-league-clash-postponed-as-ballymena-showgrounds-fails-another-pitch-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/717478\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League clash postponed as Ballymena Showgrounds fails another pitch inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Four games at the Ballymena Showgrounds have been postponed in the month of January\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5031e208-f8bf-4a18-8b33-d55e8d62610c.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)\">Four games at the Ballymena Showgrounds have been postponed in the month of January<\/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)\">Today\u2019s Sports Direct Premiership clash between Ballymena United and Portadown at the Warden Street Showgrounds has been postponed after the pitch failed an 11am inspection.<\/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)\">It\u2019s the fourth time that the Showgrounds pitch has failed a pitch inspection in January. Ballymena\u2019s Fifth Round Irish Cup clash with Larne was postponed twice, while the league showdown with Glenavon was called off on January 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four games at the Ballymena Showgrounds have been postponed in the month of January Today\u2019s Sports Direct Premiership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[117021,58911,1144,29311,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-717478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ballymena-united","9":"tag-keith-bailie","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-portadown-fc","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115949926113482265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717478","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=717478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}