{"id":516122,"date":"2026-03-03T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:15:10","slug":"premier-league-live-build-up-news-conferences-and-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516122\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League LIVE: Build-up, news conferences and team news"},"content":{"rendered":"

How could football adapt to fix the issue?published at 14:12 GMT<\/p>\n

14:12 GMT<\/p>\n

Dale Johnson
Football issues correspondent<\/p>\n

\":Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Referees do not go into Premier League games blind about each team’s tactics. Officials are sent a dossier of information by PGMO which details how each team approaches set-pieces, attacking and defensively.<\/p>\n

It is supposed to keep referees ahead of the curve on things like grappling and blocking. But, with the Premier League’s high bar on fouls, much of the holding is allowed.<\/p>\n

Fans get frustrated by corners being retaken, but former Premier League assistant referee Darren Cann says this is because “grappling often begins before the corner is taken” – and it isn’t possible to give a foul when the ball isn’t in play.<\/p>\n

Maybe this could all change? We might be waiting a while for anything to happen, though.<\/p>\n

The International Football Association Board (Ifab) met in Wales on Saturday to thrash out the law changes for next season.<\/p>\n

Scottish Football Association chief executive Ian Maxwell batted away questions about grappling: “It wasn’t something that we specifically talked about. I’m not sure it’s necessarily getting worse.”<\/p>\n

It should be remembered that we’re only discussing this because players and coaches are always trying to find that extra edge to score a goal.<\/p>\n

It might be that a law change really is needed to stop players throwing each other around before corners, or maybe it is just a Premier League problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How could football adapt to fix the issue?published at 14:12 GMT 14:12 GMT Dale JohnsonFootball issues correspondent Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-516122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}