{"id":10514,"date":"2025-09-09T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10514\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:03:08","slug":"heimir-hallgrimsson-accepts-armenia-defeat-raises-questions-over-ireland-future-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10514\/","title":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson accepts Armenia defeat raises questions over Ireland future \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a>\u2019s accepts Tuesday\u2019s defeat to Armenia will raise questions over his future as Ireland manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">And he admits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Ireland<\/a>\u2019s World Cup qualification hopes are all but done now after the defeat in Yerevan which leaves the team with just one point after two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cYeah, close to that,\u201d replied Hallgr\u00edmsson when asked on RT\u00c9 if Ireland\u2019s qualification hopes were in the bin already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cEverything needs to be perfect from now on. After this performance, it\u2019s difficult to be optimistic we\u2019ll go to Portugal and win with a performance like we did today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His contract runs until the end of this qualification campaign but he understands if his position comes under scrutiny now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cYeah, of course, that\u2019s the job of the coach, if they [players] are not producing then of course it\u2019s always under question. It\u2019s understandable now, I\u2019m not naive. It\u2019s understandable now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAfter this performance, of course I will take the blame for this. The players need support and, yeah, we need to encourage them. They\u2019re going now back to the club, so hopefully they come back in four weeks and ready for the next challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson\u2019s accepts Tuesday\u2019s defeat to Armenia will raise questions over his future as Ireland manager. And he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,1842,4018],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}