South Africa Scratches New Goal-Line Tech Plans
March 14, 2008 by Jyle Dupuis
Filed under FIFA World Cup, News
The organizers of the South African FIFA World Cup organization has decided to scratch their original plane of placing goal-line monitoring devices into their new stadiums. Organizers have said that they feel that using technology to play the game is a gamble they are not willing to risk.
Personally I think that it is a bad idea. Just having the World Cup games held in South Africa will be difficult enough, don’t take the added risks!
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It is a complete kop out this decision! The organisation asked to devise the technology by FIFA have produced a system whereby a micro-chip in the ball produces a noise in the referee’s ear-piece as soon as a ball goes over the line! It would take a split second to make a decision. With all the poor decisions in major tournaments over the years, this could be the end to it all but the powers that be have bottled it yet again!