Soccer: Fifa dismisses goal-line trials
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Originally Posted by BBC Sport
Fifa dismisses goal-line trials
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter says goal-line technology experiments were stopped because of reliability issues and its unsuitability for football.
Football's law makers ordered a freeze on tests earlier this month, despite the English Football Association and Premier League chiefs backing the idea.
The English had hoped to introduce the 'Hawkeye' system in 2009.
Fifa chose instead to push ahead with trialling an assistant referee behind each goal.
"Both the football committee, chaired by Franz Beckenbauer, and the technical committee supported the International FA Board," said Blatter.
"They said, 'why should we resort to really complicated goal-line technology such as the microchip in the ball that works in 95% of the cases but not 100%, or the famous Hawkeye which is appropriate for tennis as the players can stop the game to challenge the decision?'."
Unsuitability for football... are you fucking kidding me? Blatter has to be the worst president that has ever taken charge, he simply dismisses everything because it will take a little effort to do it. How in the hell would a ref see if it crossed the line from behind the goal? That would be the same as the actual ref in front of the goal... what a moron.
