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Mick McCarthy has been sacked as  manager of Cypriot club APOEL Nicosia.

Bad news for Jack Byrne who McCarthy had just signed from Shamrock Rovers. Byrne made his debut in what turned out to be McCarthy's last game.

 

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MTK Global, the boxing management company founded by the alleged Irish gangster Daniel Kinahan, has announced it is moving into football.

The group – which represents more than 300 fighters including Tyson Fury, Carl Frampton and Billy Joe Saunders – said it was setting up a football agency “having already conquered the world of combat sports and become the biggest force in the business of boxing”.

MTK’s move will raise deep concern among football’s authorities, given Kinahan’s notoriety and the speed in which the company has become a major player in boxing. While the 43-year-old has no criminal convictions, he was named in Irish courts as the head of a £1bn drugs and arms cartel.

The new agency, MTK Football, did not respond to questions from the Guardian over whether Kinahan would be involved in the new venture or which players it has signed.

It will be fronted by the little-known agent Danny Vincent, who promised to take MTK Global’s successful formula into football. “MTK are the biggest and best in the world when it comes to day-to-day management of elite fighters,” he said. “Myself and my team believe our passion and knowledge will help replicate that into the world of football.”

MTK Global’s chief strategy officer, Paul Gibson, added: “There has always been an affinity between boxing and football. We see plenty of our fighters enter the ring sporting the colours of their city’s team and footballers regularly take in our events from ringside.

“That’s why we’re so excited by this new venture and the opportunity to explore some of the synergies which undoubtedly exist.”

Kinahan helped set up MGM in 2012, which then changed its name to MTK after a sustained spell of bad publicity. In 2017 he said that he had severed ties with the group but last month lawyers for MTK Global confirmed that he was still advising some of the organisation’s boxers. Kinahan later issued his own statement, insisting he was innocent and that he was continuing to work on “record-breaking” fights.

 

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I had forgotten about the attempt to buy Wimbledon and relocate it to Dublin.

...Also I always forget the guy who runs the pub quiz I would go to every month before lockdown was the CEO of the FAI once.

 

 

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English football will implement new protocols for heading in the professional game this summer, following the announcement of two new studies into how it affects an athlete’s brain.

The Premier League confirmed on Friday that it is to conduct the research over the remainder of this season, before the findings are incorporated into new rules that will be agreed with professional and amateur bodies. The findings are expected to result in limits on heading in training for all adults.

It follows growing calls for action on heading and specifically for limits to be imposed in training, with the campaigner and former professional Chris Sutton telling MPs at a select committee hearing this week that a cap of 20 headers per session should be set immediately.

The studies will be central to informing any changes. The first is to be conducted among a cohort of players from Liverpool’s under-23, under-18 and women’s teams and Manchester City’s under-18s and women’s teams. The players will wear mouthguards with built-in accelerometers and proximity sensors that allow for the frequency and intensity of impacts from heading a ball to be recorded.

The Protecht mouthguards, designed by the company Sports and Wellbeing Analytics, have been used in trials at Stanford University and are being worn by players at a number of rugby union clubs including Harlequins, Leicester and Bristol Women.

A second study will look at match-tracking data and video from the 2019-20 Premier League season to observe the intensity of headers in a match situation. There is no consideration being given to limiting headers within matches, but the data will form part of the decisions on a training protocol to be undertaken by the Professional Football Negotiating and Consultative Committee, a body drawn up from representatives from across the game.

Football authorities have said that understanding the variation in impacts from different types of heading is important before deciding on guidelines. Speaking to MPs at the digital, culture, media and sport select committee this week, the FA’s chief medical officer, Charlotte Cowie, said there was an agreement on limiting heading but that: “It might be 10 [from a long ball] was equivalent to 20 shorter ones. We want a little bit more detail on that before we rule within the professional game but we fully intend to do that and also in the adult grassroots game.”

Announcing the research the chief executive of the Premier League, Richard Masters, said: “The Premier League’s focus is to make the game as safe as possible for all players. We are working with our partners across football to achieve this and the research studies we are undertaking are just one example of our commitment to this important issue. We hope the results of this project will contribute to the development of practical guidelines for the professional and adult game in this country.”

 

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Also, while I'm here, here's how I see people who complain about VAR

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That implies some level of precision, rather than a second set of inept referees looking over the first set, with this hilarious "clear and obvious rule" which has led to "I don't think that would have been ruled out if he'd given it, but he hasn't so it's not a pen". The only thing that's measured is offside, and all that's done is removed the concept of level, ruling out goals where players have gained no advantage whatsoever (and to an even greater extent thanks to the change to the handball rule making the lines completely arbitrary) which is completely against the spirit of the law.

If it genuinely made the game consistent and fairer it would be great, but it's just added an extra layer of complexity and a load of extra time to every game.

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56 minutes ago, Colly said:

That implies some level of precision, rather than a second set of inept referees looking over the first set, with this hilarious "clear and obvious rule" which has led to "I don't think that would have been ruled out if he'd given it, but he hasn't so it's not a pen". The only thing that's measured is offside, and all that's done is removed the concept of level, ruling out goals where players have gained no advantage whatsoever (and to an even greater extent thanks to the change to the handball rule making the lines completely arbitrary) which is completely against the spirit of the law.

If it genuinely made the game consistent and fairer it would be great, but it's just added an extra layer of complexity and a load of extra time to every game.

To be fair, I'm saying this from a US perspective, where even a random number generator deciding every call would give more accurate decisions than our referees.

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