Amidst several controversial calls made in the past in terms
of declaring a goal by referees, FIFA has introduced a latest method to
determine when the ball has completely crossed the goal line with the
assistance of electronic devices.
The English Premier League has voted to introduce goal-line
technology from the 2013-14 season. Hawk-Eye, a British based company has
been awarded the contract to provide the state of the art system.
“When incidents regarding the ball passing the goal-line
come along, they are so controversial, so seismic, that it is all about getting
it right. If there is some technology available to help the officials get it
right then it is right, we should be doing it,” said Richard Scudamore, chief
executive of the Premier League.
The Football Association (FA) has agreed to install a system
at Wembley Stadium in time for August's Community Shield. The decision was
further strengthened when top clubs of the Premier league voted to adopt it.
The ideation of the technology was sanctioned by 20 Premier League chairmen in
April, this year.
Hawk-Eye uses seven cameras per goal to detect the ball and
claims its system is "millimetre accurate, ensuring no broadcast replays
could disprove the decision". Also used in various other sports like Cricket,
Tennis and Snooker, where visual images within a specific time frame are displayed
through high-speed video cameras placed at different parts in and around the
goal. These high-speed cameras further depict a graphic image of the balls
movement to the fourth official, who finally renders it fit to declare a goal.
Inventor of the Hawk-eye, Paul Hawkins said, “It
will not slow the game down. In under a second we will provide the information
to the watch, then afterwards we will show a TV replay that will definitively
prove what we showed the referee was correct. Our technology is there to ensure
decisions are correct.”
In 2012, the International Football Association Board (IFAB)
deemed it fit to introduce this new technology, being utilized for the first time,
in the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. The Goal-line Technology (GLT) was tested
in the competition in two particular ways; one being the Hawk-Eye and the other
being the GoalRef, produced by a German company Carios Technologies AG,
alongside Adidas.
The momentum to increase the utilization of the Goal-line
technology took place when IFAB voted for this equipment after Frank Lampard’s
goal was disallowed in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where England lost 4-1 to
Germany. However, the instant replay clearly depicted that the ball had crossed
the line after ricocheting of the bar. “Frank Lampard's "ghost"
goal at the 2010 World Cup played a decisive role in the decision,” said Sepp
Blatter, FIFA President.
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