Goal line technology to be used in Premier League

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Goal line technology to be used in Premier League Controversial goal line decisions should become a thing of the past and no longer be a feature of the game after the current Premier League season. According to Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive of the Premier League, modern technology will be brought in before next year’s season.

Scudamore has vowed to deliver and improve standards both on and off the football field. Goal line technology trials will continue through the year, according to the International Football Association Board, the association which controls the rules of the game. Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president has always opposed the use of technology but has now been forced to reconsider and an introduction is realistic in the forthcoming year.

Players do their utmost to score or prevent goals and fans become hoarse in their vocal support. Goals can make or break a player or managers career. The technology is accessible and it is important to be fair to all. If allowed the Premier League would put the technology in place immediately.

A select committee report on the future of football will shortly be delivered. But the report creates a degree of negativity after the inquiry had heard evidence from a number of witnesses including former FA chief executive, Ian Watmore and ex-chairman Lord Triesman, who focused on the poor rapport between the Premier League and the FA.

Scudamore cannot agree English football is broken and in need of saving. The Premier League has had a very good year and despite the poor showing in South Africa and the 2018 World Cup disappointment, English football goes from strength to strength. The FA needs to deal with the issues.

Sky fantasy football

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Sky fantasy football Whether it is for the general love of the game, or of your club, with the help of a master step by step guide you can put together the dream team through your allotted £75 million. Throughout the season you get 30 transfers of which you can use five per month so you can change many of those that are not scoring.

While at times it is worth a change here and there after opening weeks if it appears your players just do not have it or are out of favour but do use them all up too early since an injury can strike at any time and usually at the most unexpected of times.

Also transfers are good if a team has a good run and they have some favourable fixtures or two in one week. You can make unlimited changes until the ball is kicked away on August 13.

In fantasy football captain changing can happen all you like and it is worth following the form of all the players plus their opponents as your skipper receives double points and that pick could change a good week to great.

You can make the formations the way you want them and either go on the attack and go for broke or park the bus and let it come to you. No matter what you decide as the formation the only thing to remember is not more than two players are allowed from the same club.

First and most important you want players that always play since there are no points if they are sitting. Just being in the first eleven gives you an instant two points with a substitution giving you one.

Each goal earns five points and three points for an assist plus an additional five if you have the man of the match. Yellow cards also come into effect since they start accumulating them and each yellow costs one point and a red will cost three. A penalty missed will cost you an additional three. There are also live point updates on match days allowing you to keep track of your team scores.

Plymouth Argyle in discussions with League

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Plymouth Argyle in discussions with League Discussions between the Football League and the club over Peter Ridsdale’s takeover have begun, says the administrator of Plymouth Argyle. The ex-Chairman of Leeds United last week completed a deal to buy the club. Bishop International, another company will purchase the land around the park as well as Home Park, thus clearing off any of Argyle’s debts.

As the club prepares for the upcoming season, this deal means their survival the administrator of the club Brendan Guilfoyle told the club’s website. There are still concerns about the deal since Kevin Heaney non-league Truro City’s chairman is involved with Bishop International. League rules state no one can be involved with the running of two different clubs.

Football League officials will have to make that decision but the takeover will not be completed until Ridsdale has the right to own the team which will not happen until it is ratified by league officials. While other fans may have wanted another deal, the timeframe does not allow for that said Guilfoyle.

Craig Thomson gets the boot after all

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Craig Thomson gets the boot after all Craig Thomson, the 20-year-old defender for Heart of Midlothian football club who was convicted last month of sexual misconduct on the internet, will not be playing again for the Scottish Premier League.

According to the announcement on Hearts website, Thomson’s suspension on June 28th will be permanent.  This decision is an about-face from the club’s original statement of support for the offender, reportedly following a meeting between owner Vladimir Romanov and Thomson’s family.

When the scandal first reached the media in June, Thomson’s behavior was put down to “outside influences” and underplayed by club spokespersons as a sort of youthful indiscretion.  However after the young man pleaded guilty to charges of “lewd, libidinous and indecent” contact with two underage girls in internet chat rooms, both the public and the team’s sponsors raised an outraged protest.

The outcry was enough to cause Romanov to retract or at least modify his former tirade against those he claimed were conspiring against the club.  Former Hearts player Alan McLaren was quoted as saying he hoped Thomson would never play for the club again, and one major sponsor, MacB Water, has withdrawn its support, with others likely to follow suit.

Liverpool still battling for a bigger ground

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Liverpool still battling for a bigger ground Managing director of the Liverpool Football Club, Ian Ayre, said in a statement this week that the new infrastructure needed by the club is facing major challenges in its realization.  Liverpool needs significantly greater capacity for its fans in order to compete with Arsenal and Manchester United, whose gameday revenues are much higher.  However, Ayre said, there are so many problems with land  acquisition and planning and environmental regulations that the process is painfully slow.

Over the past few months it has become apparent that the expansion of Liverpool’s existing Anfield stadium to a 60,000 capacity would be preferable both in terms of cost and in long-term benefit to fans and players compared to the option of a new stadium to be built at Stanley Park.  Unfortunately, this course of action presents an array of difficulties, for reasons that some feel are just bureaucratic maneuverings.

The fact is that refurbishing and enlarging Anfield would involve a temporary reduction of facilities during the process, as well as costs for acquiring rights to the surrounding property and conforming to many of the City Council’s requirements for such construction.  If Liverpool could make a deal such as the one Manchester just announced with Etihad Airways, which is reported to be worth around £150m over the next 10 years, it would enable them to go with a new stadium.

Mr. Ayre has noted that Liverpool is in discussion with several brands about naming rights for a new stadium, but so far there has been no inclination to rename the old one.  At present the decision about which way to go on the issue has not been made, but the club is under pressure to make a committment one way or the other.  Ayre insisted in his recent statement that the goal is to find the “best possible long-term solution” for the team and its supporters.