Outgoing Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive Gordon Taylor will give evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into concussion in sport next week, it has been confirmed. He will address MPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee on Tuesday morning, the committee has announced. The Premier League is also trialling mouthguard technology with a view to heading guidelines being introduced into professional football and the adult grassroots game, to supplement existing advice for under-18s. Taylor wrote to the game’s law-making body, the International Football Association Board, urging it to extend its concussion substitutes trial to include the use of temporary subs. It claimed the permanent substitution model, currently being trialled in the Premier League, had “jeopardised player health” in some circumstances.

Source: Express April 22, 2021 15:56 UTC