When some European elite football leagues returned to action last year amidst the pandemic, athletes played largely without crowds. These so-called ghost games offered researchers a rare opportunity to get into the heads ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2021
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High profile sports like rugby, tennis, cricket and basketball have seamlessly embraced technology to aid referees and linesmen, so why doesn't football?
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 28, 2010
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Soccer referees may have an unconscious bias towards calling fouls based on a play's direction of motion, according to a new study from the of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Researchers found that soccer experts ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2010
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KU Leuven and UEFA, European football's governing body, have embarked on a four-year project to expand and fine-tune a web-based skills training platform for referees. Early results show that the application can improve assistant ...
Software
Oct 27, 2014
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A team of university researchers have found that football crowds are influencing referees' behavior in the top four professional Leagues in England.
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2022
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The head of the Federal Communications Commission is taking the defense of new Internet regulations on the road.
Telecom
Mar 3, 2015
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Soccer league administrators looking to limit verbally abusive and violent on-field behaviour may want to consider implementing a crash course in the rules of the sport and equipping their referees to better deal with confrontation, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2018
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(Phys.org)—A major analysis of referee's decisions in the Premier League has shown that officials are around 15% more likely to book foreign players who are from the same background as the most sizable ethnic minority groups ...
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2012
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Goal-line technology will be tested in an international match for the first time, when England take on Belgium in a Euro 2012 warm-up, FIFA said on Thursday.
Other
May 24, 2012
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An avalanche of penalties and yellow cards against the Queensland Reds in their game against the Lions in Johannesburg at the weekend is an example of what many suspect and QUT research proves - the referees are biased, though ...
Other
Mar 24, 2014
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