{"id":416693,"date":"2026-04-25T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:53:11","slug":"no-real-quality-no-control-an-awful-game-stephen-bradley-calls-on-shamrock-rovers-to-park-derry-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416693\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No real quality, no control, an awful game\u2019 \u2013 Stephen Bradley calls on Shamrock Rovers to park Derry loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley reacts during the SSE Airtricity Premier Division defeat to Derry City at Celtic Park in Derry. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3436057.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 manager Stephen Bradley reacts during the SSE Airtricity Premier Division defeat to Derry City at Celtic Park in Derry. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/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)\">Stephen Bradley says his Shamrock Rovers side have to park the defeat to Derry City in an \u201cawful\u201d game after they were moved off the top of the Premier Division table.<\/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)\">A three-game winning run was brought to a halt away to Derry in Celtic Park, where Bradley was very critical of the playing surfce at Derry\u2019s GAA HQ, and a win for St Patrick\u2019s Athletic at home to Bohemians means that Rovers are no longer league leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley reacts during the SSE Airtricity Premier Division defeat to Derry City at Celtic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,14646,61,60,43,11113],"class_list":{"0":"post-416693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-derry-city","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-shamrock-rovers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416693","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=416693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}