Goal-line Tech

Goal-line Tech

FIFA have outlined plans for testing various different goal-line technology methods. It looks like we may finally get the addition of technology into football.

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/203036,fifa-to-begin-goalline-testing.aspx

I think the testing method outlined is very good, and it will finally end the debate of whether it is accurate enough to implement into a real life football game.

Ad long as it's more like tennis and less like most other sports.

By that I mean,as long as there is no snowball effect.

Snowball effect?

From the sounds of it, a signal must be sent instantly to the ref's watch telling them if the ball has crossed the line.

dude, there's already a goal line tech thread here. only a couple of pages back.
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13514
George Costanza2011-05-04 21:13:43

My bad, must have missed it when I skimmed over the thread titles...

Snowball effect,is along the lines of "we check for this,it'll only take an extra few seconds to check for that" "oh no the ref got something wrong,why didn't he check it" and so on,it snowballs until eventually everything gets checked.

League and cricket are just 2 examples where it has happened.

Yeah, the fact that the signal must immmediately be sent to the referees watch kills the snowball effect.

I suppose this is because there are only two outcomes, either a goal was scored or it was not. This is different to league, and to a certain extent cricket, where there are several different factors that influence whether a try was scored or not, such as obstruction, forward passes, knock ons etc, and none of these are as easy to check as whether a ball has passed over the line or not.

I imagine the next step would be offside. That'd get real annoying,real fast.

I've never understood the recent obsession with having to get 100% of decisions right. Bad calls against you are a part of sport,it's actually good,causes a bit of controversy,emotion,rather than clinical decision making via video replay (which quite often aren't right anyway,so I'd argue you may as well not have it and speed the game back up again).

I'm talking more about video replay in other sports there rather than goal line technology. GLT would be good,as long as it's instant,and that's as far as it goes. Sadly,like every other sport,I think it'll snowball.

Neither did I until two weekends ago.