IFAB agree goal-line tests (1 Viewer)

[Coventry La La La]

(Lampards World Cup Effort) Law-making body agrees to goal line technology testing

Football's law-making body has agreed to re-examine the issue of goal-line technology amid increasing calls for it within the game.
Made up of members from FIFA and the four British home associations, the International FA Board's business meeting in Wales on Wednesday agreed to look again at the issue just seven months after ruling it out.
The move comes after the issue was highlighted at this summer's World Cup when Frank Lampard's 'goal' against Germany was not given.
An IFAB 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 5th March.

 

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[IrishSkyBlue]

tits bit late for us aint it

 

[Taziano]

The idiots will probably pick whoever came up with "fantasy football" to run it.

 

[SkyBluesAndy]

If it comes in it will probably go against us knowing our luck! Score a goal against Ipswich that isn't given, had Leicester given a goal against us last season that didn't cross the line but when this technology is set up we will probably have these kind of goals going against us which otherwise might not have been given... It's just our luck!

 

[BenInTurin]

At the end of the day, if it goes for or against us I'll be happy overall because the right decision will have been made. It's a joke that in this day and age that we have these decisions not being automatic.

 

[Nick]

It might come and go like the Golden Goal did

 

[cheesehog]

It needs to be in place to prevent costly human errors.... Presuming refs are human that is !