{"id":239830,"date":"2026-01-11T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:16:13","slug":"fa-cup-round-up-ireland-u-21-star-on-target-for-norwich-as-franco-umeh-features-against-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239830\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup round up: Ireland U-21 star on target for Norwich as Franco Umeh features against Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony Springett of Norwich City celebrates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages_2255180544.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)\">Tony Springett of Norwich City celebrates<\/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)\">Injury-plagued Ireland U-21 cap Tony Springett had cause to celebrate his runout in the FA Cup for Norwich City as he scored his first goal for the Canaries.<\/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)\">The winger, who made three Premier League appearances for Norwich in their last season in the top flight, has been restricted to a handful of games this term, having missed all of last season with injury. But Springett (23) popped up to score for Norwich in their 5-1 win at home to Walsall, having come on as a sub in the 75th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Springett of Norwich City celebrates Injury-plagued Ireland U-21 cap Tony Springett had cause to celebrate his runout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-239830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239830","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=239830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}