Jack Moore

How Technology Might Fix Soccer by Mark Hudson

In March, as he arrived in London for the organization’s annual General Meeting, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he would “rather die” than see another incident like the Lampard travesty at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. And so, through a process that began last fall, the new cohort of goal-line systems competing for FIFA’s approval is now whittled down from eight entries to a final two — Hawkeye and GoalREF — though there’s no guarantee that either will be selected. If approval does come in July, the introduction of Goal-Line Technology will be the first significant change to football’s Laws of the Game since 1992 and the biggest since player substitutions were first allowed in 1958.