{"id":327391,"date":"2025-12-21T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:43:09","slug":"irish-league-linfield-face-nifl-probe-over-match-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327391\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League: Linfield face NIFL probe over match postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Linfield requested the postponement after Isaac Baird was called up to the Northern Ireland Under-21 squad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c4399d79-d4b1-4d1b-bf4f-942b4b7e586b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Linfield requested the postponement after Isaac Baird was called up to the Northern Ireland Under-21 squad<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) has launched an investigation into Linfield\u2019s request to have a League game postponed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The match in question was the Sports Direct Premiership fixture against Dungannon Swifts, scheduled to be played at Stangmore Park on November 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linfield requested the postponement after Isaac Baird was called up to the Northern Ireland Under-21 squad The Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2664,101,53378,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-linfield-fc","tag-sports","tag-sports-direct-premiership","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}