Thought of the Day: Goal-Line Technology, It's About Time!

It's time to talk about how to take the game forward.

Football is sport which is being rapidly globalized, the development of the game in the past three decades has been overwhelming.

Football's viewer-base extends from Japan to Jamaica and the game has become more than 'just a few men kicking the ball around'.

While it was a positive decision by the FA to move from five substitutes to seven, providing the manager with more options to choose from depending on the current situation of the game—one wonders whether goal-line technology being introduced would be a good decision or not?

One's first impression of goal-line technology is 'Finally!'

A recent Championship game featuring Reading and Watford covered by Shyam Parthasarathi for Bleacher Report revealed 'The Worst Refereeing Blunder Of All Time'

If your memory allows you to trace back, Manchester United played Tottenham Hotspur, a few seasons ago.

A Pedro Mendes volley was controversially disallowed while replays showed Roy Carroll only pulled the ball back after it had crossed the goal-line.

Hawk-Eye Technology has recently been introduced in cricket and tennis, does football require something similar?

Perhaps the introduction of goal-line technology would be beneficial to football, but is there a certain element of the game which could suffer?

The 'originality' of the game would have to go under the scanner—which might not necessarily have a negative impact on the game.

An even worse effect would be the treatment that the referees would face.

Perhaps, the referees would lose the little respect that players and managers have for them. This would mean the referees would be degraded.

After considering both sides of the argument in some confusion, I'd like to leave it open...

I'd like to get your views on whether you are for or against this development.

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