Soc: Hawk-Eye sets sights on entry to football goal-line

AAP Sports News (Australia), March, 2007

AAP Sports News (Australia) 03-03-2007 Soc: Hawk-Eye sets sights on entry to football goal-line By Angus MacKinnon LONDON, March 2 AFP - Hawk-Eye, the technology used to judge tight line calls in tennis, will this weekend be proposed as the solution to football's desire for a reliable system of judging when the ball has crossed the goal-line. Football's rules-making body, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), will also review progress on the development by adidas of a 'smart' ball fitted with a microchip that bleeps when it crosses the line and an Italian system using digital cameras fitted in the frame of the goal. FIFA President Sepp Blatter admitted earlier this week that a solution was long overdue and appeared to suggest that he...

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