Goal Line Tech

I don't care for goaline tech at all. I don't see the point. Sometimes you get decisions and sometimes you don't. The more we take out the human element of the game, the less human the game becomes.

"I can't think of a good reason to say no. It's 2012 for cripes sake and we still can't be sure if a ball crossed a line."

Quite! They've had the tech to prove a ball is in or out in tennis for two decades. Cricket has had tech to prove the movement of a ball for LBW calls for six years. Formula 1 has technology so advanced that a guy sat at a laptop in the garage can tweak a car for improved performance while it's still racing!! In fact, the only sport with money that doesn't have fancy tech is snooker, and that's only because it's so laborious you don't even need it.

It makes me laugh that every other sport in the world has moved forwards and yet football is still being judged on line calls by a bloke stood 30 yards away, with nothing more than a flag. (Or a woman if Sian Massey is doing it, for anyone with feministical tendencies...)

How hard can it be to put a chip in a football? We put them in everything - access cards, security tags, we even put them in our pets for heaven's sake! What is the hold up?

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Goal line technology sucksballs

If you can scan a persons movements for £100 with an Xbox kinect then how hard can this be? I mean jeez we are in 2012 now - have FIFA never seen 24 and the stuff Jack Bauer uses?

SKY NEWS

Goal-line Technology To Be Tested At Wembley

The Hawkeye system will be installed at the national stadium for the match, which will be Roy Hodgson's first home game in charge of England.
If there are any close calls, however, only the scientists monitoring the system will know the results - the referee will not be informed.
If the tests are successful, the go-ahead for the technology is expected to be given on July 2.
It will be the final live trial for the Hawkeye system and follows a test at the Hampshire FA Senior Cup final at Southampton's St Mary's Stadium on May 16.
Another system, called GoalRef, is being tried out in the Danish Super League.
All the tests are being monitored by officials from Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.
World governing body Fifa said in a statement: "Such tests could lead to the International Football Association Board (Ifab) approving the introduction of GLT at its special meeting at the beginning of July.
"Only the Empa observers, Ifab and Fifa representatives at Wembley will have access to the GLT system readings.
"Therefore, should a goal-line incident occur at this or any of the 'test' matches, the system will not be utilised by the match officials.
"It means the GLT system will have no influence on the outcome of the matches in which the system is being tested.
"Fifa would like to place on record its sincere thanks to the Football Association for their willingness to support the live match tests, a critical part of Test Phase 2 for goal-line technology."

I blame it on FSG

Should already be standard in the Premier League, if not the other divisions too......

Typical .... Football's (by far) the richest sport in the UK, where millions can ride on one goal-line incident, yet technologically, it's years behind the other sports such as Rugby League, Cricket and even Tennis!

A referee's assistant perched on the crossbar will see us right. Perhaps two.

comment by BahamasSpurs (U1033) posted 6 hours, 35 minutes ago

I find this whole "technology" thing quite hilarious. Things like microchips in balls and lasers being fired across the goal line are unbelievable!

Sky, BBC and whoever else have shown us how easy it is with just having a decent HD, slo mo camera aimed directly along the goal line, comfortably showing whether the whole ball is over the line or not. It takes a few seconds to double check and like if in cricket there is a hint of doubt, the goal shouldnt be given.

SIMPLE."

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The point of using technology is to take away human intervention, with a camera you still need someone to make a judgement and therefore they will still be disputed. We also need instant results not seconds wasted waiting for someone to make their mind up!!!