Football puts goalline technology on hold for Uefa experiment 30/10/2009 |
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Despite the comments this month from the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, that he wished to explore goalline technology again, the International Football Association Board – which presides over the sport's laws – last week decided the prospect was closed until their March 2011 AGM, which will be held in Wales.
The home nations make up half of Ifab's eight members, with the other four nominated by Fifa. A two-thirds majority is required to pass rulings. It was decided at their meeting to wait until at least the close of the Europa League's current experiment, in which Uefa has placed an extra assistant at each end, patrolling the goalline.
On 4 October Fiorentina's Alberto Gilardino scored a controversial "phantom goal" against Lazio in Serie A, which was disallowed after the referee and his assistant failed to see it had crossed the line. This prompted Blatter to say: "We still haven't found anything which settles the problem. Now the inventor of Hawk-Eye [used in cricket and tennis] has said publicly his system would work. We will gladly take a look at it. He can demonstrate his system."
How the Premier League will greet the news is unclear. But the domestic governing body may well feel frustration that it will not be able to continue its own experiments with Hawk-Eye, which has already proved successful, in non-competitive football until the 2011 AGM.
With Fifa's authorization the League began testing technology – solely for goalline decisions – at Craven Cottage in 2007 before trials moved to Reading's training ground. The successful results were shown to Fifa's technical committee ahead of an Ifab meeting in March 2008 in Gleneagles. But Ifab turned down Hawk-Eye's technology.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
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