champions league to have goal line technology starting this season...

[jayjay23]

yep, you know what the marvelous advance is?

2 more assistant referees. one stood at either end at the goals.

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thats 1520 extra officials per season (if it were put into the premier league) seems like a lot.
why not just put a sensor on each goal line at the 20 premiership grounds.
or in the case, the 4 teams in the prem who will be involved in the champs league.

at least video or sensors would give a more definitive answer rather than a boggle eyed referee who gets it wrong for not concentrating.

[Squidgy]

Unfuckinbelievable.

I'm not out of doing someone out of a job in favour of technology, but creating one when technology is proven to do it more effectively (and no doubt much more cheaply)?

[Chris Rabz]

I know they are trying to improve the game but this is completely the wrong direction. After the game when Andy Gray and the rest look through the highlights how long does it take them to look at a replay (or two) of a contentious goal, and decide whether it's in or not? 15 seconds max? So surely it wouldn't put anybody out if the referee or fourth official had access to the same replays as Sky. It seems a bit strange to have these extra officials in Europe's premier competition though and not in any domestic leagues.

[Jamster26]

Screw Sepp Blabber and his stupid decision making. Get an Englishman to run the show. Alan Sugar would get my vote.

[jayjay23]

i dont get what the problem is about when to bring the game to a halt. (do you know which bit i mean)

if there is a chance that the ball went over the line and it appears contentious then rule in favour of the goal immediately. so the game halts. then check the reply. if its in its a goal, if its not then its goal kick. simple.

none of this "they would have to wait until the ball next went out of play and by then anything could hav happened so it wont work"