The former Norwich Rangers striker by the name Kyle Lafferty has pleaded guilty to accepting a Football Association betting charge. He further received a strict warning and in addition to a £23,000 fine from the FA. Lafferty had placed a bet on a match that caused him to breach the FA rule E8, he did this on February 20, 2016. The bet he placed was on the result, conduct, progress or any other feature or occurrence relating to the football match or competition. The 28-year old striker made only one premier league appearance on the season of 2015-16. He later spent the end of the season on Birmingham City before featuring for Northern Ireland at Euro 2016.

Even though Northern Ireland and Norwich did not play on the said date, it was wrong for Lafferty to place the bet since the E8 rule forbids professional players from betting on matches they are participating in. the rule also forbids players from placing bets on matches they have influence on or even on any other football match taking place anywhere in the world. He has therefore being given until August 5^th to respond to the misconduct charge. He was thereafter charged and fined £23,000.

There was an FA statement release which stated that £23,000 had being placed as a fine on Kyle Lafferty after he pleaded guilty to the offence. He was also given a warning relating to his future conduct. The player fell out of favor with Norwich since he made six appearances and only scored one goal. In the qualifying matches he managed to score for Northern Irish and also participated in the Euro 2016 where he played for his country in the last 16 match. The transfer window is due to close on August 31^st and the striker is expected to move to another club before then.

The Croatian team has high chances of being kicked out before their final group game against Spain. This is after the UEFA brought charges after flashes were hurled from the Croatian corner of the Saint-Etienne stadium after the draw of 2-2 against Czech Republic which happened on Friday. The Croatia coach, Ante Cacic referred the fans causing havoc as sports terrorists while Grabar-Kitarovic who is the president referring to them as enemies of Croatia. Croatia will be playing against Spain on Tuesday on the stadium which has been perfectly laid out by the Torcida Split 1950.

The group also has another plan laid out ahead of the game. There have been angry comments about the post where their fellow country people stated that they were embarrassed of them. Hours before Croatia went up against Czech; Torcida had put up the same outline of the map in the Saint-Etienne stadium. A ruling against the Croatia supporters has been pushed to Monday by the UEFA. The HNS which is Croatia’s football federation has said that there had been a warning given to the UEFA and French police about people who had planned to disturb the match.

The HNS has gone further to blame the Hajduk Split fans for the incident. However, their claims have been denied as fake. This is not the first time that Croatian football fans have disrupted a match, hey have been known for causing chaos and singing the pro-Nazi motto. Croatian police had sent a list of people thought to cause chaos in the Euro 2016 match to France. There has been increase in hooliganism in Croatia ever since the HNS president, Davor Suker took position.

Fyodar Smolov from Russia accused England and Wales fans for the chaos that erupted on the first days of the Euro 2016 championship. At the end of the game in Marseille England fans were attacked by Russia and England and Wales supporters caused violence in Lille. Smolov added that he would prefer the supporters to continue supporting them on the match between them and Wales that would be held on Monday. He also said that the English provoked them. UEFA has threatened to evict Russia in the Euro 2016 match if violence continues.

Slutsky who is a Russian coach said that violence was not going to be taking place any longer. He also added that there was additional security to ensure that such violence did not happen again. Wales coach spoke well of his supporters and urged them to continue supporting them.

Chris Smalling has been selected as the perfect England player by bettingexpert.com. This conclusion came shortly after the announcement of England’s Euro 2016 squad which was due earlier in the week. Every England international player from the last ten years was assessed by betting expert. The assessment showed that the ultimate footballer needs to be around 24 years of age, must have been born from South England, must have started playing his first international at 22 years of age, is right footed and has had three clubs, with the most dominant clubs being Liverpool, Leeds United or Chelsea.

The bettingexpert research has shown that 40% of the last 112 England players have had brown hair, while 36% have had dark brown eyes and the overall height has been 6’0”. Thus the Light-colored players who have hopes for the trip to the Euros have to consider visiting the hairstylists. Chris Smalling meets five key requirements that are; he was born in London, he is right footed, has dark brown eyes and he made his first England performance at the age of 22 years in the year 2011. He is also has an average age of 24 years and he has performed for two of the required football clubs.

There are other nominees for the class of 2016, including Jordan Henderson who has met 5 of the required requirements, Danny Welbeck who has met 5 of them, Nathaniel Clyne(4), Adam Lallana(4), Tom Heaton(4), and Daniel Sturridge(4). Over the last ten years only players Shaun Wright-Philips and Alan Smith have come close to meeting the set criteria since they met over five key traits. The Chief Strategy Officer at Better Collective, Thomas HØgenhaven stated that they were looking for ways to help electorates make the most informed decisions in betting.

This is to mean that every needed aspect was to be looked into keenly through assessing the form, and looking at the trends and coming up with evidence of which bets provide real value. The fascinating thing about all these is that when players who meet these traits of England internationals are looked up they do not display the expected players. However, England players all have the same patterns overtime in terms of age, size, birthplace and looks. The research carried out identified various key aspects from 112 England players such as average age, height, hair color, eye color and the common birthplaces plus the past clubs each player has played for in previous years.

Chris Smalling is awaiting the final decision of whether he will be considered as England’s ultimate player.

He may be an American but has traveled across the globe nurturing various soccer talents. 57-year-old Bob Bradley the current Head Coach of French Ligue 2 outfit Harve A.C. has had previous encounters in two different continent grounds. Bradley was once the U.S.A head coach, Egyptian National Coach as well as Norwegian side Stabaek manager.

Bob started his coaching career in his native land in college, MLS and later the US national team. A disastrous loss to Mexico in 2011 was the final blow to have experience as the US head coach. After he had been relieved off his duties, Bradley was approached by the Egyptian Football Association, which offered him a job as the manager of the Egyptian National Team. He would later go on to lose in the final qualifying match of the 2014 World Cup, which was enough to miss the Brazilian showdown.

Bob would then quit as the Egyptian head coach after the January 25 Revolution in Port Said. He moved to Norway with his family where he managed Norwegian side Stabaek through to the Europa League. It was one of the most times for him and his team which was promoted a year before he took charge. However, his tactics lifted the team up to third place finish, a cup semi-final spot as well as qualification for the Europa League. Two years down the line, Bradley opted for another test and, this time, he moved to French capital where he took charge of the French Ligue 2 outfit, Harve A.C, which is now owned by American businessman Vincent Volpe.

His success, however, comes at a cost too. Being an American, most English top flights were reluctant to offer him a job as they claim to be in need of a coach with Premier League experience which he lacked.

Le Havre is now placed third in the table after beating rivals Paris F.C and is in the automatic promotion sport to French Ligue. Bradley headed to Oslo to finalize some paper work of the UEFA Pro license which would allow him to manage any club in Europe.

The English second division tier Football League and their main sponsors Sky Bet have decided to sign a three year deal as an extension to their existing one.

Sky Bet has been the main sponsor of the League as from 2013 and signed a three year deal that is scheduled to end in August 2016. However, the new extension deal is scheduled to start from August 2016 and scheduled to end in August 2019. The deal comes to a great advantage to the Football League’s 72 teams who will oversee their income increase drastically.

The Football League has been in existence for a long time with teams in first to third place at the end of every season being promoted to the higher league. Those finishing at the bottom three positions definitely get a demotion to the lower league. The Football League recently claimed that it will change its identity to EFL and with Sky Bet as their main sponsor up to 2019; the league will be entitled as Sky Bet EFL. However, respective names of various individual leagues including Championship, League one and League two will not change.

Richard Flint who is the Sky Bet Chief Executive claimed that it was with pleasure that his company has extended their deal with Football League for another three years. He claimed that it is the durability, the amazing fans and the entertaining clubs that have attributed for the deal extension. He concluded that he was happy to invest in such a competitive league and claimed that they would bring this enticement to their betting clients.

At the same time, the Chief Executive of the Football League Shaun Harvey claimed that the main agenda of the League lies on its future and this case includes the renaming of the League. He claimed to be pleased in the manner in which their main sponsors have faith in them to an extent of extending their deal up to 2019. He concluded that the contract extension is a good way to conclude their competitive year and on behalf of the clubs and other stakeholders, he thanked Sky Bet for their support to date.