LONDON: Fifa will not be discussing goal-line technology when football’s rulers meet in Wales this week, contrary to indications by president Sepp Blatter.
Blatter had announced that the controversial issue would be on the menu when he gave England and Mexico fulsome apologies for refereeing errors in their World Cup last-16 defeats to Germany and Argentina respectively. England’s Frank Lampard had a legitimate goal disallowed, while Mexico were aggrieved when Argentine striker Carlos Tevez was clearly offside when he scored the first goal. Then, Blatter said goal-line technology has to be discussed once again at the “first opportunity” and indicated that it would take place in Cardiff.
But a Fifa spokesman has said, “The meeting this week is purely to ratify any requests that have come forward over the implementation of the assistant referees experiment, which was used last year in the Europa League. “The first formal meeting where that discussion on goal-line technology could take place is in October.”
Published in The Express Tribune, July 20th, 2010.
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