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The Football Association has introduced new guidelines and rules for the management of concussion and head injuries next season. The campaign, which is supported by the Premier League, Football League and League Managers' Association, is accompanied by an education programme which will be rolled out in conjunction with the Professional Footballers’ Association to help raise awareness among players.
The FA guidelines set out the procedures and processes which follow any suspected head injury and how players should be re-introduced to competitive football over time through the new ‘return to play’ rules.
The rules detail that after any 'confirmed or suspected period of loss of consciousness' the player must be removed from the field of play and not be allowed to return.
Where no loss of consciousness is apparent an on-field or touchline assessment will take place.
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http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...-201415-season
This is good news on two fronts.
The first one being the obvious safety factor.
The second one being that hopefully some ref will have the gonads to set a precedent and remove a player from a game after play acting dead from a light tap to the head from an accidental backhand. They could really use this to cut down on play acting.
Was wondering how Kramer was doing since his event and stumbled across this.
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Nicola Rizzoli, the ref for the final, said on Thursday to Gazzetta dello Sport that Kramer approached him after the jarring collision and asked him whether he was, indeed, playing in the World Cup final.“Shortly after the blow, Kramer came to me asking, ‘Ref, is this the final?' I thought he was joking and made him repeat the question and then he said, ‘I need to know if this is really the final.' When I said, ‘Yes,' he concluded, ‘Thanks, it was important to know that.'”
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http://www.cbssports.com/world-cup/e...this-the-final