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Fifa will reportedly reject calls for goal-line technology to be introduced in football despite the controversy over Frank Lampard's disallowed strike in England’s World Cup defeat to Germany.

British prime minister David Cameron and sports minister Hugh Robertson have called on Fifa to change its stance after Lampard’s effort clearly crossed the line but was missed by the referee and his assistants.

Fifa ruled out goal-line technology at the International FA Board meeting in March in favour of experiments with two extra assistant referees.

Robertson said: "This was a disappointing end to a tournament in which England hardly ever performed.

"Once the dust has settled, I hope the FA take a long hard look at the reasons why, and Fifa reassess their opposition to using goal-line technology."

Fifa refused to comment after the match, saying: "Fifa will not make any comment on the decisions of the referee on the field of play."

However, the governing body’s secretary-general Jerome Valcke said on the eve of the England-Germany game: "We can talk about refereeing decisions which, when you looked at them after the game, you could say were perhaps not good decisions. We didn't say you could have a zero-fault system in the World Cup.

"Additional assistants [behind each goal-line] could happen in 2014 to make sure these kind of things are not happening in refereeing.

"It doesn't mean the use of video – that is definitely not on the table today – but one thing we are discussing is two additional assistants to support referees to make decision-making easier and to have more eyes helping him to make such decisions.

"We knew this is where criticism would come."

After the IFAB meeting in March, Valcke admitted he feared just such a controversy in this World Cup.

Valcke said then: "Questions will always come – we just hope they will not come in the final of the World Cup."

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has also defended the organisation’s position, saying: "No matter which technology is applied, at the end of the day a decision will have to be taken by a human being. This being the case, why remove the responsibility from the referee to give it to someone else?

"It is often the case that, even after a slow-motion replay, 10 different experts will have 10 different opinions on what the decision should have been.

"Fans love to debate any given incident in a game. It is part of the human nature of our sport."

Paul Hawkins, the managing director of the company Hawk-Eye which has developed goal-line technology, believes Fifa should now rethink.

He said: "It did take a series of poor line calls in the 2004 US Open as the catalyst for change for electronic line calling in tennis.

"If this incident is the same catalyst in football, then whilst it is disappointing that Fifa have been reactive rather than proactive, at least football will change for the better in the long run.

"If you look at a large set of close goal-line incidents, many of them only go over the line for a fraction of a second, and no human is able to fairly officiate these incidents regardless of where you are standing.

"Maybe in 1966 when broadcast technology was far inferior, it was interesting to debate if it was or was not a goal.

"Things have moved on since then, and the only debate following this incident will be, 'Why don't the governing bodies do something about this?'"