Month: January 2017

Kicking off with football news plus more for this Monday.

Football: It has been confirmed that A-League club Perth Glory will take on English Premier League heavyweights Chelsea in a friendly in 2018 during the opening year of operations at the 60,000 capacity Perth Stadium.

It will be the second time Chelsea have played a friendly Australia in three years.

A deal to play the friendly first came to light in June 2016 when The West Australian reported that Chelsea was being targeted for a marquee match against the Glory.

Source: The Age

Football: A-League clubs are reportedly fuming at Football Federation Australia’s attempt to delay FIFA-imposed reform to its contentious voting structure.

Chairman Steven Lowy and chief executive David Gallop will meet with FIFA president Gianni Infantino in Zurich on Wednesday, reportedly to request an extension to the March deadline for local reform, requested by the world governing body to address concerns about the lack of democratic process in FFA board elections.

The Australian Professional Football Clubs Association (APFCA), which represents all 10 A-League clubs, released a statement on Monday saying the move was “unacceptable if the visit by the FFA Chairman Steven Lowy and FFA CEO David Gallop to the FIFA President either delays the long-overdue reform of the FFA General Assembly, or creates a circumvention of the committed process of engagement with stakeholders of the Australian game.”

Read more at The World Game.

Rugby Union: The smallest crowd in Wellington Sevens history has threatened the future viability of the event.

A reported crowd of about 10,000 was on hand for each of the event’s two days, well down on the last year’s average of 14,000.

New Zealand Rugby will announce in March whether the event will remain in the capital.

Source: SBS

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Twitter has partnered with Sky Sports in the United Kingdom to deliver three hours of non-exclusive coverage and analysis of the transfer deadline day which sees football clubs across the UK and Europe scramble to get deals over the line before the transfer window closes.

The live global broadcast on Twitter will utilise the Sky Sports News HQ feed, adding to the broadcaster’s suite of live coverage which already covers skysports.com and the Sky Sports app.

In a statement, Sky Sports News Executive Editor, Andy Cairns, said: “Deadline Day is a huge date in the diary for everyone who loves football, it provokes countless conversations and Sky Sports News can be relied on to deliver the news as it breaks through to the final seconds. Every window we strive to find new ways for fans to follow our coverage and deliver the stories in a way that suits their busy lives.”

Twitter COO, Anthony Noto, added: “We are thrilled to collaborate with Sky Sports to give fans everywhere another way to watch and discuss the day’s top rumours and deals as they unfold live, all on Twitter.”

Twitter’s recent sporting content partnerships have included deals for the PGA Tour, the recently completed Australian Open, the Melbourne Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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