Jameson's Sport Writing Portfolio

Leicester City was relegated back to the EFL Championship at the end of the 2022-23 Premier League season. The club sold and loaned multiple star players, including star attacker James Maddison, winger Tete, fullback Timothy Castagne, winger Harvey Barnes, and lost free agents Youri Tielemanns, Cayglar Soyuncu, Daniel Amarety,  Ayoze Perez, Jonny Evans, Luke Thomas, and Boubakary Soumare. The club enjoyed a solid 7-year run in the Prem, which saw them win the league title in spectacular fashion in 2016, the FA Cup and Community Shield in 2021, and enjoyed four seasons of European football competition.  They sacked Brendan Rodgers, who oversaw their FA Cup and Community Shield wins and took them into the Europa League and the Conference League, but it was Dean Smith who guided them to the drop as the ship became rudderless. Leicester had to do a massive reset of their finances and transfer budget but will be aided by parachute payments from the Premier League. Parachute payment...

There was once a time in our lifetimes when video replay was not a concept in professional sports. Since the introduction of instant replay and more camera angles in remarkable places never thought possible, the sports world has been mired in controversy. Instant replay has made watching sports torrid affairs, particularly because no matter how many camera angles and technology assists officials have these, they have been - in my honest opinion - getting the calls incorrect. Sure, that is par for the course; referees are humans just like you and me. They get calls wrong. It happens, but with all of this technology that is supposed to minimize officiating mistakes, why does it feel like there are more incorrect calls than ever before? Association football was very late to adopt a video replay system. Critics cited how it slowed down the game and put the laws of the game under such a narrow scope, leading to misinterpretation. Before 2017, most leagues did not use video assistant referee...