Fifa confirm vote to be held on introducing goal-line technology in March

Soby · 20-10-2010 5:01pm #1

Goal-line technology has moved a significant step closer after the International FA Board today agreed to re-examine the issue.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/8076278/Fifa-confirm-vote-to-be-held-on-introducing-goal-line-technology-in-March.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9112050.stm

IFAB's business meeting in Wales ended with members - made up of FIFA and the four British home associations - agreeing to look again just seven months after the game's law-making body ruled it out.

A statement said: "The technology would apply solely to the goal line, and only to determine whether a goal has been scored or not."

The system must be accurate; the indication of whether a goal has been scored must be immediate and automatically confirmed within one second; the indication of whether a goal has been scored will only be communicated to the match officials."

A deadline of the end of next month has been set for companies to make a first presentation of their technologies to FIFA.

A testing period will then take place with a number of companies to determine the accuracy of each system and this will be reported back to the IFAB annual general meeting on March 5.

About time

Ebbs · 20-10-2010 5:05pm

Why do Fifa need to make such tiny steps?

They are just prolonging the inevitable.

Atleast its a step forward. Im sure Blatter and Platini are pulling their hair out at the prospect.

The_Kew_Tour · 20-10-2010 5:07pm

Should have been done years ago.

Ste- · 20-10-2010 5:12pm

Alas to me it sounds like it would have helped Englands cause but not our own. As the Handball didn't appear at the goal line.
Am I reading this right ?

Jim · 20-10-2010 5:35pm

Why would they take steps to introduce something which in 99.9% of cases is not needed, whereas the amount of terrible terrible match changing decisions that don't include the goal line are being ignored.

yahoo_moe · 20-10-2010 8:43pm

Well nothing is needed 100% of the time...

In fairness, goal-line technology would be the easiest and least disruptive video element to start with so it would make sense.

I think there could be chaos if too much was introduced too quickly - and I don't think anyone should complain if this was brought in really.

However, not a done deal yet. That one-second stipulation seems to me like an excuse waiting to be made.

Fifa confirm vote to be held on introducing goal-line technology in March

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