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May 12, 2021 - 08:36 am By Staff Reporter
Former Premier League footballer Trevor Sinclair has called for Manchester United to be docked six points after the club fielded what he felt was a B team against Leicester City on Tuesday.
Faced with the prospect of three matches in the space of five days, United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer rotated his side for their Premier League clash against the Foxes, naming 10 changes to his starting XI.
The result was that a youthful-looking Red Devils suffered a 2-1 defeat to Brendan Rodgers side, who have now taken a commanding advantage over the likes of Liverpool and West Ham United in the race for 2021/22 UEFA Champions League qualification.
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Former Premier League CEO Richard Scudamore has joined real-time engagement platform Monterosa as a non-executive director.
Monterosa, which supplies its SaaS platform, Interaction Cloud, to ITV, Sky, ViacomCBS, IMG Arena, EA Sports, The British Olympic Association, The Jockey Club, and Liverpool FC to monetise properties such as the Grand National, Olympics and Premier League, is aiming to expand its offering globally.
Interaction cloud gives back-end infrastructure and control systems for features such as voting, native apps, live mobile gameshows, in-venue interactive apps or messaging, and more.
After an 18-year tenure leading the Premier League, Scudamore joins the company with the particular aim of growing sports fan engagement after the business saw a 200% increase in users while fans were stuck at home in 2020.
Former Premier League referee, Dermot Gallagher, has said that Manchester City should have been awarded a penalty for Kurt Zouma’s collision with Raheem