An Upadate

Just a quick follow up on the proposed move to bring technology intop football taken from:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6404755.stm

As the situation stands, a number of systems will now be further developed, including one proposed by the Premier League and Hawk-Eye, who have systems in cricket and tennis.

FA chief executive Brian Barwick said: "We all believe that goal-line technology is the way to move forward. If we are going to introduce it, it has got to be 100% accurate."

Premier League spokesman Dan Johnson added: "We are pleased with the reception that our presentation got and that we can progress to further stages of testing the Hawkeye system."

The IFAB has laid down four criteria for the goal-line technology systems:

• That technology should only apply to goal-line decisions.
• That the systems must be 100% accurate.
• That the signal to the referee must be instantaneous
• That the signal is only communicated to the match officials.

Adidas and German firm Cairos will also continue to develop their system where there is a microchip inside the ball.

Although I stated previously that the game should remain simple I still stand by this. However it seems that the technolgy's introduction seems imminent. Therefore I will say that if hawk-eye technolgy was installed, if the signal to the referee was in fact "instantaneous" then its effect on the decison making will be positive and its effect on the game's flow should be minimal. Nevertheless there still appears to be wider issues that need to be considered which i have outlined throughout the blog.

Let me know what you think.