Tue 29 June 2010
The FIFA President has confirmed that goal-line technology is back on their agenda
The Round of 16 matches between England vs Germany and Mexico vs Argentina saw extremely controversial decisions which led to both England and Mexico being knocked out.
England’s Frank Lampard’s shot at goal had clearly crossed the line after hitting the crossbar. However the goal was denied by the linesman. The second incident took place as Carlos Tevez’ opening goal was allowed to stand for Argentina after being in a clear offside position.
Both these incidents played a major role in the outcome of the results as the teams at the bad end of the refereeing decisions took a beating on their morale levels.
Sepp Blatter was previously against the use of goal-line technology as he claimed it would make the game slow, has now come and out and confirmed that the integration of technology into the beautiful game will be discussed by FIFA in July. However he also hinted that video replays will not be preferred by FIFA.
Sepp Blatter’s comments:
"It happened in 1966 and then 44 years later - though it was not quite the same," said Blatter
"I apologised to England and Mexico. The English said, 'thank you' and accepted that you can win [some] and you lose [some], and the Mexicans bowed their head and accepted it."
"It is obvious that after the experiences so far at this World Cup it would be nonsense not to re-open the file on goalline technology.”
"We will naturally take on board the discussion on technology and have first opportunity in July at the business meeting.”
"Personally I deplore it when you see evident referee mistakes but it's not the end of a competition or the end of football, this can happen.”
"The only principle we are going to bring back for discussion is goalline technology.”
"Football is a game that never stops and the moment there was a discussion if the ball was in or out, or there was a goal-scoring opportunity, do we give a possibility to a team to call for replays once or twice like in tennis?”
"For situations like the Mexico game you don't need technology."
Sameer Bharde
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