SPORTS AGENDA: Ref-cam trial works a treat in Chelsea and Brighton's USA friendly while Blackburn players are asked to pay for their OWN flights home from Germany tour amid club's financial problems
It may not have been the busiest of summers for Nottingham Forest in terms of transfers, especially compared to last year, but it has been a period of transformation at the City Ground.
A new pitch — the first for 23 years — has been laid at the club’s home, while a host of other upgrades have been carried out.
Corporate facilities have been refurbished, as has the media zone, while floodlights at Forest’s training ground — that previously did not work — have been upgraded.
Meanwhile, Manchester United winger Anthony Elanga is expected to complete his move to Forest today.
Elanga, 21, also had the option to join Everton, but he is understood to have preferred the prospect of operating within Forest’s style of play under manager Steve Cooper.
Premier League referee Rob Jones wore a bodycam during Saturday night’s friendly between Chelsea and Brighton in Philadelphia.
The subsequent footage captured two Chelsea goals and a Brighton penalty, along with various discussions between Jones and his assistants. Do not, however, hold your breath for such an addition in the top flight.
Sadly, these devices and live audio are prohibited under the laws of the game — with refs’ body PGMOL introducing edited footage on a fascinating Monday Night Football towards the end of last season.
Blackburn Rovers’ financial problems have been laid bare after players were asked to pay for their own flights if they wanted to find a quicker route home from a pre-season training camp. The Rovers squad spent last week in Austria but on their return could not get a direct flight and landed in Frankfurt, where the group stayed overnight.
With seats home the following day limited, the Championship side’s players were given the option of sorting out their own
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