Goal line technology would lead to decisions on corners and goal kicks etc being referred to camera and in turn video refereeing. Think about it, football has survived for the last 130 odd years without goal line technology and look how its progressed. Furthermore what’s football without controversy? What would white van drivers, builders and cabbies across the country have to discuss if every decision was perfect? How boring would football become? Very. Without a controversial decision, an offside goal or a blatant dive papers like the Sun would have to turn to serious Journalism and actually report on the matches meaning I’d have nothing to read in the morning, the game wouldn’t flow, the football chant “the referees a w*****” would vanish and people would get bored.
However sports like Rugby benefit from the game hugely from video technology aiding refereeing decisions when tries are scored. The atmosphere at a rugby game however is a lot different from a football one, and perhaps the lack of hostility fans present aids the ability for this, but its much more likely to be of a benefit there when nearly every contested try calls for video technology to aid the referees decision, as its much harder to decide when there is 10 men piled up on each other in the way and I suppose there not the sort of people you want to anger by making a wrong decision…
Although goal line technology is helpful and would benefit the game in terms of results, how often does it actually happen? As a football fan I’m more concerned about what it would lead to and how this would affect the game in the long term. However the Premier League has agreed to introduce it as soon as possible, and it will be used in the next world cup meaning the decision to implement it is imminent, and one sweaty teenagers blog from his bedroom isn’t going to change that decision. My solution would be to close down Chelsea seeing as they were involved in every one of the three examples I used above in some way or another (I’m still pissed about my membership card). I just hope F.I.F.A. have made the right decision and I have trust in them, particularly after Blatter announced the logistically impossible plans to hold the 2020 Euro’s in every qualifying nation in Europe. On second thoughts…
Charlie Bowsher.