{"id":26681,"date":"2024-04-11T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-clubs-vote-unanimously-for-introduction-of-semi-automated-offside-technology\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T14:01:00","slug":"epl-clubs-vote-unanimously-for-introduction-of-semi-automated-offside-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-clubs-vote-unanimously-for-introduction-of-semi-automated-offside-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Clubs vote unanimously for introduction of semi-automated offside technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Premier League clubs on Thursday, voted unanimously for the introduction of the semi-offside technology at a shareholders\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule will now be introduced next season but will not be ready for the start of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This will impact how offside calls are made moving forward in the English top division.<\/p>\n<p>However, it will come into effect after one of the international breaks, meaning it will be introduced as early as September or as late as November.<\/p>\n<p>The top-flight teams have opted for the technology, with the hope that it will speed up the process of making these decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology will provide quicker and consistent placement of the virtual offside line, based on optical player tracking, and will produce high-quality broadcast graphics to ensure an enhanced in-stadium and broadcast experience for supporters,\u201d a Premier League statement read.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Clubs vote unanimously for introduction of semi-automated offside technology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League clubs on Thursday, voted unanimously for the introduction of the semi-offside technology at a shareholders\u2019 meeting. The new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,15,160],"tags":[156,180,201],"class_list":["post-26681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-news","category-sport","tag-epl","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}