Fifa rule out goal-line technology

Published: 2:35PM GMT 06 March 2010

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The International Football Association Board (IFAB) assembly in Zurich voted opposite stability any serve experiments with goal-line record nonetheless the FA and Scottish FA both voted in favour.

Fifa ubiquitous cabinet member Jerome Valcke said: "The doorway is closed. The preference was not to go brazen with record at all."

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The IFAB will confirm in May either to aspire to the complement of carrying an additional dual officials at the behind of each goal-line.

FA arch senior manager Ian Watmore had been in foster of goal-line record but was outvoted after the Irish FA and Welsh FA voted in line with Fifa.

Watmore said: "In the finish it came down to a disproportion of perspective about either you hold the destiny of football involves record or not.

"We had upheld the thought of questioning experiments in to the make use of of record on goal-lines and we would similar to to have seen it.

"But a little of the arguments were really absolute and impressive and we have to accept them."

Goal-line record had come behind on the bulletin following vigour on Fifa to see at alternative systems following Thierry Henry"s sport in the World Cup play-off for France opposite the Republic of Ireland.

The preference was not done since of any problems with the dual initial systems being grown by Hawk-Eye and German organisation Cairos but formed on the component of not utilizing record in football.

Valcke added: "Technology should not come in in to the game, It was a clear, transparent matter done by the infancy of the IFAB.

"They are observant since should we have record in a diversion where the main piece should be humans - players and referees.

"Whatever are the mistakes - and yes there are mistakes - and people will examination the compare and plead what happened but there was a transparent matter that record should not come in in the game.

"If we begin with goal-line record afterwards any piece of the diversion and representation will be a intensity space where you could put in place record to see if the round was in or out, either it was a chastisement and afterwards you finish up with video replays.

"Let"s keep the diversion of football as it is."

Jonathan Ford, arch senior manager of the Football Association of Wales, said: "The human component of the diversion is the vicious component of it.

"The discuss they had with the idea in the 1966 last - that"s still being talked about in pubs and that"s the beauty of the diversion and keeping the diversion alive.

"I was disturbed that you would finish up with a stop-start incident where you examination all decisions and I don"t see that as piece of the game."

Patrick Nelson, arch senior manager of the Irish FA, additionally corroborated the Fifa position.

Nelson said: "We really majority conclude the human side of the game, the debate, the controversy, that"s since the house has taken this decision."

SFA arch senior manager Gordon Smith blamed "traditionalists" for station in the approach of progress.

Smith said: "I"m in foster of technology. I think if there"s anything that improves the decision-making of the referee, if it"s elementary and can be used at the time, afterwards I have zero opposite it.

"The referees humour since of record - since of radio replays. If there was record in place it would essentially stop referees carrying to humour from bad decisions and it"s usually one thing, either the ball"s over the line or not.

"I only felt we should be receiving it forward.

"In my time in the game, there is what I call traditionalism. It"s something that is clever in the game. We should be seeking over this human component side of it since the human that suffers the majority when the preference is improper is the referee.

"And the fans humour and a group suffers."