{"id":761358,"date":"2026-02-13T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/761358\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:27:12","slug":"michael-oneill-expected-to-be-named-blackburn-rovers-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/761358\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Neill expected to be named Blackburn Rovers boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael O&#8217;Neill is expected to be confirmed as Blackburn Rovers manager later today (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ireland manager is the Championship club&#8217;s preferred choice to succeed Valerien Ismael who left the manager&#8217;s role earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the former Coleraine midfielder could take over initially on a joint role until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland face Italy in a World Cup play-off semi-final in March and then either Wales or Bosnia-Herzegovina in a final or friendly, depending on the result in Bergamo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Neill is expected to be involved for both matches and the World Cup finals, should Northern Ireland qualify against the odds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He could then take over as manager at Ewood Park on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More on this story to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Neill is expected to be confirmed as Blackburn Rovers manager later today (Friday). The Northern Ireland manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29504,132076,31133,1144,16,15],"class_list":["post-761358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-ifa","tag-michael-oneill","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761358","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=761358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}