Goal line technology , why not?

They're worried about "opening the floodgates."

If goal-line technology is implemented and proves to be a great success. People will start to want technology introduced into other areas of the game... to determine if a challenge was fair or deserving of a red card, or maybe to judge whether a player handled the ball, or whether a player was offside.

All of this could progressively slow the game down and make it a constant stop-start affair.

No workable goal line technology has yet to be evaluated.

Unlike other sports with video replay, if a goal is not scored, play continues. Stopping play to evaluate a replay is unacceptable to many. Then the question becomes... "who decides when to stop?" It would become a political decision, with the referee getting grief for not stopping play for obvious no-goal situations just because the aggrieved team felt like tossing a fit.

Other technical solutions (not video replay ones) that are very fast and automated had a horrendous error rate. I seem to recall in one match where an RFID solution said 8 goals were scored (all those shots were wide of the posts or over the cross bar) and it completely missed the one goal that made it into the net.

Show FIFA one that can do the job without changing the game and FIFA will give it a fair consideration.

You guys sure like to ***ch, but I don't see any of you actually trying to solve the technical problem. You seem to think the resistance is purely political.

I'm all for goal line technology, the argument that the governing bodies puts against it is that there should always be a 'human' element to the refereeing of the game, ie mistakes.

On the whole, in the big games I think this is nonsense, but there is something nice about being able to go to a park and play the game more or less exactly as it is seen on the tv.

Goal line technology will eventually have to come in at some point because why should the most decisive moments in a football match all come down to whether or not a referee or linesman saw it because if they are looking at it from the wrong angle or have players obscuring their view then what are they meant to base their decision on?

Things like fouls and offsides shouldn't be questioned because debate is one of the aspects that makes football so interesting and questioning everything would ruin the game but because a goal has by far the greatest impact in a football match they quite simply have to get it right.

Having just read Platini's thoughts on this and he says "we will have Playstation football." I wonder if he would be saying the same thing if France had a perfectly good goal disallowed in the world cup like England did. I bet they couldn't bring it in fast enough that was the case.

I say bring it in, but only for making sure the correct decision is made for whether the ball crossed the line or not. Everything else remains as the referee's decision.

because they are conservative geeks?

i dont know!