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Kicking off
The total number of
managerial movements
in the top four divisions
of English football
during the 2010/11
season (of which 38
were dismissals). This
is remarkably close
to the figure from the
previous season when
there was a total of
51 movements (36 of
which had been due to
dismissals). During that
season, the average
tenure of a dismissed
manager rose slightly,
but was still less than
18 months. See ‘The
Technical Area’ (on
page 44) for more.
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Fans of the competing
nations in next year’s
European Championship
can apply now for tickets
through 16 separate ‘portals’
which have been set up on
the UEFA website.
Applications opened on
December 12th and will
remain open until February
29th. The tickets will be
distributed through a
lottery, with fans from each
nation guaranteed at least 16
per cent of ground capacity
for each of the group games.
euro ticket
sites open
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news and views from the dugout
FIFA boss outlines provisional timeframe
for adoption of goalline technology
Goalline technology could be in use from
as early as next season, and will definitely
be in operation for the 2014 World Cup in
Brazil, according to recent statements made
by FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Since March of this year, nine systems
have been put through a testing process
by the International Football Association
Board (IFAB). These systems have to meet
four basic requirements: that the technology
applies solely to the goalline and only to
determine whether a goal has been scored
or not; that the system must be accurate;
that the indication of whether a goal
has been scored must be immediate and
automatically confirmed within one second
and that the indication of whether a goal
has been scored will only be communicated
to the match officials (via the referee’s
watch, by vibration and visual signal).
Speaking to the German newspaper
Bild
, Blatter revealed that: “There are now
systems that combine precision, speed
and are uncomplicated. We are now in
the testing phase and the IFAB will vote
in March 2012 in London over using this
resource. If the final decision is made, it can
be used from the 2012-13 season.”
In a separate interview with the Spanish
publication
El Mundo Deportivo
, Blatter
added: “Brazil 2014 will have technology
to avoid phantom goals. FIFA has two
good systems that meet all the demands we
set: reliability, immediacy and not being
difficult to use.”
It is believed that the two rival systems
which Blatter referred to are from the
British company Hawk-Eye and its German
technology rival Cairos.
The introduction of goalline technology would put an end
to incidents where legitimate goals are not counted, as in
the England v Germany tie in the 2010 World Cup
the
manager
WINTER 2011
blatter reveals goalline technology plan