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Premier League to trial permanent concussion substitutes

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Premier League - Huddersfield Town vs Watford - John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield, Britain - April 14, 2018 Fourth official Michael Oliver holds up the substitution board Action Images via Reuters/Craig Brough

The English Premier League said it had agreed to introduce an additional permanent concussion substitutions trial following a shareholders meeting on Wednesday.

The decision comes after the game's rule-making body IFAB last month gave the go-ahead for trials of additional "concussion subs".

Under the protocols teams will be allowed a maximum of two concussion substitutes each per game in cases of head injury.

The trial will allow an additional concussion replacement, regardless of the number of substitutions a team has made.

"The trial will be confirmed when the implementation of the reporting processes, including private medical information, has been resolved with IFAB and FIFA," the league said in a statement https://www.premierleague.com/news/1981126.

Earlier, soccer's world governing body said it will trial concussion substitutes at next month's Club World Cup in Qatar.

(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)

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