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Introduce Goal line technology in football.
Introduce Goal line technology in football.
The goal line technology debate has been reopened by Chelsea’s second goal in their FA cup semi final against Tottenham on Sunday. Tottenham were 1 nil down when Chelsea was awarded a second goal by the referee ruled that Juan Mata’s shot crossed the line despite it being cleared by Benoit Assou-Ekotto. Many Tottenham players blamed the referee Atkinson with Adebayor saying "To be honest, we have to blame the referee... To be honest, I'm just tired of it and everyone is talking about goal-line technology. They have to make something happen because it's killing the league, it's killing the FA Cup, it's killing the game, it's killing everything." Fifa, the Premier League and the English FA are now willing to support its introduction if it can be proven reliable, testing is now underway. However the technology will not be ready for the next season so 2013-14 is likely to be the earliest that it could be introduced. It is also likely that it will only be introduced in some competitions. Uefa which organises the international European competitions; the Champions League, Europa League and European Championship is in favour of additional assistant referees rather than technology to give a second opinion when a goal is controversial. So the consensus position is moving towards the technology being introduced in Britain but it is less likely elsewhere. Will it make a difference if some competitions have the technology and others don’t? Should English leagues introduce it even if other leagues the same teams participate in don’t?
http://www.theweek.co.uk/football/46329/goal-line-technology-game-changer-better-or-worse
Our current debatabase debate on the issue: http://preview.idebate.org/debatabase/debates/sport/house-would-introduce-goal-line-technology-football
1 year 5 weeks ago
On the same day that Lampard’s effort was disallowed at the 2010 World Cup, Argentina beat Mexico 3-1 with the help of an opening goal from Carlos Tevez that replays showed was clearly offside.
I guess that is an argument against it; introduce the technology in one area and why not in another?
43 weeks 1 day ago
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I think that goal line technology should be introduced.
There's nothing more infuriating than seeing your team robbed by an incorrect decision by a referee or linesman. One facet of football (soccer) where such mistakes routinely happen is where the ball hits the bar and bounces down on the line. The question the officials are faced with is which side of the line did it bounce down onto? Perhaps the most famous goal line decision came in the final of the 1966 World Cup final. The competition hosts, England, were tied with West Germany 2-2 after ninety minutes, so the game went to extra time. Early into extra time, a Geoff Hurst shot hit the crossbar and bounced down. The Russian linesman determined that the ball had crossed the line and (despite the protests of the Germans) the goal was allowed to stand. There have been suggestions from recent digitally enhanced footage that the ball hadn't in fact crossed the line.
On the same day that Lampard’s effort was disallowed at the 2010 World Cup, Argentina beat Mexico 3-1 with the help of an opening goal from Carlos Tevez that replays showed was clearly offside.
http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/commentary/soccers-technology-debate-unlikely-to-stop-on-the-goal-line