<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SportsGlare</title><link>https://sportsglare.com</link><description>Sport, Brought to Light. Independent football business and technology intelligence.</description><language>en-GB</language><item><title><![CDATA[Footballers Grew. The Goal Didn’t.]]></title><link>https://sportsglare.com/articles/footballers-grew-goal-didnt/</link><guid>https://sportsglare.com/articles/footballers-grew-goal-didnt/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Football still uses a goal frame rooted in the nineteenth century. It is time to test whether a modest increase would improve the modern game.]]></description><category><![CDATA[Future of Sport]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sports technology procurement checklist]]></title><link>https://sportsglare.com/articles/sports-technology-procurement-checklist/</link><guid>https://sportsglare.com/articles/sports-technology-procurement-checklist/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Eighteen questions rights holders, clubs and venues should answer before signing a sports-technology contract.]]></description><category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Cup 2026 made the referee a data endpoint]]></title><link>https://sportsglare.com/articles/world-cup-2026-referee-data-endpoint/</link><guid>https://sportsglare.com/articles/world-cup-2026-referee-data-endpoint/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How player avatars, optical tracking, referee cameras and AI analysis changed the operating model behind football's biggest tournament.]]></description><category><![CDATA[Officiating tech]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[IFAB’s quiet VAR expansion deserves more attention]]></title><link>https://sportsglare.com/articles/ifab-var-review-boundary-2026/</link><guid>https://sportsglare.com/articles/ifab-var-review-boundary-2026/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A new 2026 trial allows VAR intervention for certain attacking offences before a corner or free kick is taken. The operational consequences are larger than the wording suggests.]]></description><category><![CDATA[Rules & systems]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Champions League final is also a temporary broadcast city]]></title><link>https://sportsglare.com/articles/champions-league-final-temporary-broadcast-city/</link><guid>https://sportsglare.com/articles/champions-league-final-temporary-broadcast-city/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 2026 final's broadcast footprint shows why major-event technology is fundamentally an integration and logistics discipline.]]></description><category><![CDATA[Broadcast]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtual advertising’s next constraint is no longer the graphic]]></title><link>https://sportsglare.com/articles/virtual-advertising-next-constraint/</link><guid>https://sportsglare.com/articles/virtual-advertising-next-constraint/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Why the virtual advertising market is becoming a control, observability and commercial-operations problem.]]></description><category><![CDATA[Field note]]></category></item></channel></rss>