I've just been advised that the English Premier League will be first major domestic football competition to approve a goal line technology system to help referees with close calls. Halk-Eye, the camera-based ball-tracking sytem, will be used next season. Tennis and Cricket use Halk-Eye, which was chosen ahead of three FIFA-sanctioned products. Hawk-Eye sends a signal within a second of the ball crossing the line to the referee, who has the power to make the final decision. I think this has been now over-due in football and it can only be good thing., bearing in mind some awful refereeing decision which had been continually mounting up against Spurs., and were showing no signs of abating. I guess the traditionalists will be up in arms., and a few years ago I would have been one of them, but with so much at stake these days in the Premier Divisions. What is your view ?
good thing without a doubt. Won't interrupt play either. Next, retrospective bans for diving, spitting and backchatting the ref please
I'm ok with goal line technology as long as this is not the thin end of a wedge that brings in more technology to the outfield play.
How long before Bacon Face spends an entire post-match interview blaming hawk eye for his teams' loss?
The most endearing aspect about Hawk-Eye is that it will not, as far as I understand, slow the game down or bring it to a complete stand-still whilst a decision is being checked, unlike tennis or cricket. The system notifies the referee via vibrations and an optical signal which is instantly sent to his watch if the ball crosses the goal line. I think as far as the viewing, public are concerned, this system will make no difference to the overall enjoyment of the game and it also gives an opportunity for those stadia wanting to show close goal-line calls, to do so. Unfortunitly this will not force Messers Rob Lewis, Webb and Co., to look for another job or even to go to Spec-Savers. What it does is forces them to make what is in effect, the right decision. However goal line technology might only be called upon maybe 4 or 5 times a year throughout the entire league. Bearing that in mind., Does anyone know how much Halk-Eye might cost, and more importantly who pays the costs of installation and maintenance ?...... and therefor Will it be cost effective without giving it more to do in the future ?..... Is it a considerable cost at all (say $9.99 for two, at Halfords) ?.
This. Goal line technology is more than overdue in my opinion but I hope it doesn't lead to calls for any more sort of technology which can cause unnecessary breaks in play.
The contentious decisions about whether the ball crossed the goal line or not are not ones which occur regularly. There have been a number of high profile incidents which have happened often enough for us all to want action to be taken to avoid possible injustices in the future, but the technology isn't going to be used many times in every match as it is in cricket for lbws or tennis for line calls. So whilst the PL clubs can afford to invest in the technology for that once or twice a season event, what about the lower teams? I suspect we'll still be witnessing crazy decisions at Accrington v Aldershot and the like.
I don't have a problem with that really, Lidls. It would be ideal to roll it out throughout the game, but why not have the benefit of it at the top, if that's not feasible? No doubt we'll be the first side to have a goal chalked off through it. We would've benefited from it on at least three occasions that I can think of, so it's inevitable.
This But don't India still refuse to use some of the technology widely used in appeals in cricket? And of course lower levels of football aren't going to benefit from the same technology, it's too expensive. I think they will benefit from it in the FA Cup though so I'm not sure how that works. By the way I don't think Hawk Eye got the contract, did they? I'm sure I read that one of the German companies won it.
Ah. That seems a bit stupid then, doesn't it? If UEFA introduce it in their club tournaments then surely our biggest clubs will have to haver both systems installed at the sametime.
Manchester United will of course have a movable goal line which can be adjusted with no game time lost.
I can't wait for this. We've been screwed by goal decisions over the years, so this can't come sooner as far as I'm concerned.
Now its been brought in, it will be a hundred years before the next Spurs goal-line incident...its just the way things work for us!
