I wonder when those who play with an odd shaped ball are finally going to see the light and have goal line technology.

FA Cup semi final and a goal gets given even though it didn't cross the line.

Ok the final score of 5 -1 looks like a walkover but at 1-0 then the next goal is crucial.

It would have taken seconds for video ref to rule out the said goal.

Works for Rugby (both codes), Tennis, Cricket ..... why not the wendy ball game?

Well if they do, let's hope they have it at every game and not just the fixtures on Sky. How any competition could agree to two out of seven fixtures per week getting the VR is absolutely beyond me.

Driving home this evening listening to radio when I guy called up saying he was at Wembley and they were showing the goals etc on the big screens, apart from one!!

They even know themselves they need it!! Even a fourth official and ref with radio link to him????

FIFA have been testing different technologies for a while now and the testing was due to finish last month. They want an automated system though rather than a video replay. They have tested goal line technology before but they concluded it was only 95% accurate which they didn't think was good enough.

If they do agree on a system it could be in place for the World Cup in two years time.

The problem in wendyball is that the game doesn't actually stop to make a decision. If the goal was not given, how would the game re-start?

Isn't there a special board for () other sports?

Hope that was a hands free system or that you pulled over on the side of the road, cause if you didn't that's very dangerous.

they need a light and a siren on top of the net like in ice hockey.

Drop ball like other stopages for injuries etc.

ROFL, OMG, WTF, LOL, LMAO

A drop ball on the goal line should be interesting!

What about whether a penalty should or should not be awarded?

Never thought I'd be agreeing with Roddywell but I'm with you, I have said this for years. People come back and say the cost, etc, well don't have it at all.

Could just play on until the ball next goes out of play I suppose. Mind you if they played on and the other team scored I suppose they'd be pretty hacked off if it got ruled out.

The major problem for football is how and when you go to the technology.
In all other sports that use video technology, they only use it in scenarios where the ball is already dead.
You will never see the officials stopping play in Rugby League to check obstruction whilst the ball is still in play.
There was an incident when we played Wigan the other week were Tomkins broke free at the halfway line and made it to about 5 yards away from our line. When the replay was shown there was a blatent obstruction but because the try wasn't scored, the ref couldn't go to the video ref as the ball was still alive.
The pundits actually said that Warrington would have been better off if he'd have scored a try because it would have been pulled back to the halfway line for our penalty.

In football this kind of scenario can happen in far more situations.
A team could score a goal, but it isn't given as it looks like it didn't cross the line, but you then have two scenarios:

1. The ball goes immediately out of play so the ref can go to the video ref.
2. The ball stays in play and the game continues so the ref can't go to the video ref.

In the second scenario what do you do?
Do you do what happened in the example from our game above and just say tough luck, the ball is still in play so we can't go to the video ref or do you give the ref the power to stop the game at his own discretion to check it???

I don't think they'll ever go down the route of letting the ref stop the game to check as they don't even do that in any of the sports that already use video technology.
It can only go to the video ref when the ball becomes dead naturally, but then this could lead to a game in which both teams have a ball cleared off the line but it had actually crossed the line and one team were able to make use of the video ref as the ball went dead and the other team couldn't use the video ref as the ball stayed in play.

For me the best thing to do is to allow the FA to use video footage after the game and punish the officials for blatent mistakes like the weekend.
It is only by holding the officials accountable for these errors that I think we will see them improve their decisions.
As it stands at the moment, the FA take the stance that the referees decision is final.

As for the rugby league scenario, it is ridiculous that only live TV games have video footage.
Whether or not you agree with the rules of the game, all any player, coach or fan asks for is consistency week in week out. How can we ever have consistency when one week the ref has the advantage of video replays and the next week he doesn't.