{"id":304382,"date":"2026-02-18T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:43:16","slug":"its-a-cut-throat-business-but-its-character-building-dubliner-craig-mahon-thriving-in-sixth-tier-of-english-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304382\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a cut-throat business but it\u2019s character building\u2019 \u2013 Dubliner Craig Mahon thriving in sixth tier of English football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Craig Mahon is manager of AFC Fylde\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/craigmahonx.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)\">Craig Mahon is manager of AFC Fylde<\/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)\">For a teenager who thought his world had ended when he was released by his Premier League team \u2013 without coming close to a first-team appearance \u2013 Dubliner Craig Mahon has shown great resilience as well as talent to carve out a career.<\/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)\">It\u2019s not a criticism to say he has done so in obscurity, with almost 600 appearances across 18 seasons in England, but only two of those games in the Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Mahon is manager of AFC Fylde For a teenager who thought his world had ended when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-304382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304382","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=304382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}