Well being a bit of a geek, it is understandable that I am for technology, but not just because I am one. I think that there is more than a reason for me to support this argument, for starters lets just kill the anti argument.  There are 2 main reasons that people are supporting the non usage of the technology, one being that the game will be stopped unnecessarily for the check of technology, well I think that the act there is an injury time allocated to each game already justifies the addition of another couple of minutes in case there is stoppage (which I think technology might not bring anyway).

The second reason is that they want to keep the game simple enough to be played at the highest level as well as the park, now this reason seems to be really weak, Imagine 160 countries start off the World cup campaign with 32 making it to the finals and then the show off between the teams. Now, imagine that after so much the teams that make it actually loose due to the fact that there was human error ! that is unforgivable.

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I am able to recall playing cricket in the field making up rules for it as we go along, but still the integrity of the game and the essence of the game is virtually intact. Why can’t Football do the same ? It can, but traditionalist thinking FIFA members do not think it is required. The old burried question is raised again after Frank Lampard’s perfectly good goal was ruled out in England’s 4-1 mauling by Germany. Replays showed the ball was clearly over the line. Just hours later, Argentina’s opening goal in their last 16 clash with Mexico was allowed to stand despite Carlos Tevez being in an offside position.

Taking the debate a little further, the technologies that can be applied in the sport include Goal Line technologies like Hawk Eye and chip enabled footballs. Now, Paul Hawkins, the man behind ‘Hawk Eye’, has revealed in an exclusive interview withSoccernet that the technology could be introduced to football – providing accurate and instant verdicts to contentious goal-line decisions.

“The football system is slightly different to tennis and cricket. What FIFA have asked for is a system that will immediately tell the referee. So there’s no review and no time taken out of the game,” Hawkins said. “As soon as the ball crosses the line the referee receives a beep in the ear-piece that he already has to communicate with the linesman, so it’s seamless. From a fans’ perspective in the stadium you wouldn’t even know it’s there.”

“We’ve discussed the system with FIFA also telling them if the ball is close to the line without actually crossing it, the referee will receive positive information that it hasn’t. Because it is instant it doesn’t slow the game down. If anything it speeds it up.”

How good does a system have to be to get things right 100% of the time?   The system should work at all positions across the playing surface to a high level of accuracy and be at least as good as human judgement,  and this is the dilemma.  Just what do we mean by accurate?  How good is ‘good’ if we only have human decision making to compare to? “But surely”, I hear you ask; “the decision of whether a ball is ‘in’ or ‘out’ is just a case of measurement?”

Well I guess it it upto the decision makers of the sport to take the sport out of the stone ages and move it into the 21st century, at least when technology is available to make use of. I vote Yes, Do you ?