Facial recognition and spotters part of operation at Emirates that involved a dozen incidents and two arrestsThe concourses are silent when, deep in the Emirates Stadium’s bowels, Chief Inspector Pete Dearden’s briefing begins. Arsenal’s 4.30pm kick-off against Chelsea is still hours away but the fixture carries significance as a London derby and because the Premier League champions are hosting a realistic challenger.Dearden is a senior officer in the Metropolitan police’s public order command and Sunday’s matchday commander. He is, to borrow football jargon, giving the pre-match team talk, running through intelligence and in-game tactics. “Set the right style and tone,” he says. After Dearden has finished, the police room becomes a pseudo-station for the afternoon, with all incidents triaged by the same crime officer. Football offences can be found in niche legislation, and the Met wants London’s matchdays to be, so far as possible, policed uniformly. Continue reading...
Another UEFA Champions League season gets going this week with the beginning of the league phase as Paris Saint-Germain bids to join the tiny band of clubs to have won the competition three years running. PSG successfully defended their title last season when they beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest, retaining the trophy they won […] The post PSG goes for three in a row as Champions League returns appeared first on Soccer America.
Rangers flop Derek Cornelius’ proposed move from Marseille to Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq has fallen through at the last minute. The post Star Who Flopped At Rangers Sees Saudi Arabia Move Fall Through appeared first on Inside Futbol | Latest Football News, Transfer Rumours & Articles.
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