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No Kane, Still Able

The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)

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The Premier League's Failure to Recognise a Concussion Substitute Resulted in a Detrimental Outcome

Mero Romero had four sub-concussive impacts of the head. These repeated minor knocks contribute to worsening symptoms. The failure from officials to recognise it as a concussion substitute resulted in a detrimental outcome for the most sensible cause of action and intent from the club. As a league, we need to do more to not punish clubs in situations such as these. It's an issue that is now spoken of on a weekly basis in commentary. For some reason the Premier League have not shown leadership on this matter. They've introduced concussion substitutes and basically said to the club, right, we've given you this, get on with it, and that is not enough. There was some suspicion that

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