{"id":182700,"date":"2025-12-09T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182700\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:08:08","slug":"busby-babes-dublin-riots-and-a-12-0-defeat-how-loi-clubs-have-fared-against-english-opponents-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182700\/","title":{"rendered":"Busby Babes, Dublin riots and a 12-0 defeat \u2013 how LOI clubs have fared against English opponents in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shamrock Rovers\u2019 Stephen Rice, 6, celebrates scoring against Spurs in the Europa League game at  White Hart Lane in 2011. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/564072.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Shamrock Rovers\u2019 Stephen Rice, 6, celebrates scoring against Spurs in the Europa League game at  White Hart Lane in 2011. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Crystal Palace come to Dublin this week to face Shelbourne for a first meeting with a League of Ireland side in Uefa competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But the links between the two countries in Europe go back to when Shamrock Rovers flew the tricolour for the first time, taking on Manchester United 68 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamrock Rovers\u2019 Stephen Rice, 6, celebrates scoring against Spurs in the Europa League game at White Hart Lane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,14645,14640,2538,14642,61,60,11113,112,6513],"class_list":["post-182700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-bohemian-fc","tag-drogheda-united-fc","tag-dundalk-fc","tag-finn-harps","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-sports","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182700","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=182700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}