Goal-line Technology to be Introduced into Football

Welcoming Hawk-eye With Open Arms

Last week it was finally announced that goal line technology would be introduced within football at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season. The installation of this will be just in time for the Community shield in Wembley arena in August.

British based hawk-eye, which is currently being used in cricket and tennis, with big success, has been awarded the contract to install hawk-eye technology within stadiums. Although some people are disputing that Hawk-eye may ruin the tradition game of football, most people are accepting the plans with open arms, as over the years there have been a few very controversial decisions, especially when it comes to some of the most important games or cups in the world, such as the FIFA world cup, or the Euro in which without the use of Hawk-eye, teams were denied a win because of a decision that was based plainly by eye and could of been wrong.

How it works

The Hawk-eye system will use seven cameras which will be located around the goal, and they will all monitor the balls movements in and around the goal area. If the cameras detect the ball going accross the line, it will send the data to a watch in which the match officials will be wearing, therefore they can then say whether the goal is allowed or dis-aloud. The great thing about Hawk-eye is that it is millimetre accurate, which means there will be no contravercy as to whether the ball crossed the line or not, and also there is no time delay within the calculation either. It will be able to calculate the results, gather all the data from every camera and sent the result to the watch within one second, so in theory it will save quite a bit of time that would normally be wasted deciding the goal outcome.