Goalline technology approved

Breaking: GLT - Hawkeye and Goal Ref - and Additional Assistant Refs - all given approval by football's law-making body IFAB

Sky Sports News
FIFA intend to use goal-line technology at Club World Cup in December and 2014 World Cup.

Dan Roan
Horne says no chance of GLT spreading to other decisions in game. Also says could be introduced in PL half way through THIS coming season

Pathetic.............we need technology to assist referees with penalty incidents and some other major decisions.................Cheats can still prospor.........

Eh if you start using it for every decision it would take too long.

Its not football has natural and regular breaks like American football or cricket.

Disagree..............each manager gets 2 uses per game...............would Ashley Young have cheated to win penalites for Man U twice last season if the opposing manager could have referred to a qualified referee upstairs...........if it would add on average 3 mins to a game so be it.......................

The end result would be that players wouldn't dive or fake injury in the first place because they would realise that within 30 seconds they would be found out....................it would clean up the game a lot IMO and make it more exciting for the fans as they await the news from upstairs..................

It's a no brainer IMO..........................

Even if its 3 minutes, which it won't be unless its plainly obvious on first viewing, its still a long time to take out of a game that doesn't have those natural breaks. Also how long would each manager get to indicate they want a review.

Also its more likely to be 3 minutes + for each review, not all of them going off American Football reviews, which take frickin ages.

I don't really have an issue with time once justice is done.......................5pm finish instead instead of 4.50 is fine by me. Those 10 mins would be spent bitching about the decisions anyway!!

A Manager would have to indicate thew want a review within that break in play(if there is one as a result of incident eg pen awarded) If there is no break in play (eg no pen awarded) then the Manager indicates to 4th official who informs the ref at the next break in play.....................

Not only would justice be done on the pitch, but it would be quite dramatic for the fans.........................

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Dan Roan
Horne says no chance of GLT spreading to other decisions in game. Also says could be introduced in PL half way through THIS coming season

This could be a can of worms. Let's say QPR have a perfectly good goal not given in a match in October which ultimately sends them down in May, hardly fair is it?(especially when a fellow struggling side could indeed prosper from the technology a few months down the line)

They would have to introduce it at the start of the season not half way through it surely?

That aside it's about bloody time!