Technology in Football would spell death knell to controversies

There is no game like soccer that triggers adrenalin shooting high among contending teams and millions of spectators at the same time. Controversies in games prolong the sense of pain and anguish among the losers and euphoria among the winners and interestingly FIFA wants to sustain this element of controversy in games.

Though the game ends in the field yet the argument continues outside and technology is all set to set things straight in football. Refereeing errors are not uncommon in history of football and the World Cup 2010 is brought face to face again with the controversial goal struck by Holland.

In the semi-final between Holland and Uruguay, the second goal scored by Holland’s Lampard should have been ruled out as video evidence suggests that it was offside. In the second round of the tournament, the officials had failed to spot that Argentina’s Trevez had shot the goal from offside position. Such refereeing mistakes may be blind to faults but the case is unbearable when the right is proved to be wrong such as in the case of England when officials disallowed a perfectly good goal by England.

So all those who are present in South Africa watching World Cup 2010 are also witnesses to historical errors. Many English fans who were waiting to book their flights to South Africa dropped the entire idea when England had to retreat from the World’s most exciting, breath stopping games, World Cup 2010.

All these inaccuracies in football matches have paved the way for Paul Hawkins, inventor and founder of Hawk-Eye, to proffer the camera system in football as well. This camera system is already in use in tennis and in cricket as well. But FIFA is not yet convinced of the importance and efficacy of the technology in Football.