Hawk-eye ready for Premier league testing

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — The Premier league is set to test Hawk-eye technology in football with a view to remove doubts over goal-line decisions, the chief of the company that makes the product has said.

The ball-tracking system, which is already used in cricket and tennis, will initially be put to the test at Reading's academy and then tried out next season but not used by the officials.

Paul Hawkins, managing director of Hawk-Eye Innovations, told BBC Five Live's Sportsweek: "We have a contract with the Premier League to develop a system purely to resolve the dispute whether the ball crossed the line, purely for the referee and not for television.

"The process is to be evaluated by the Premier League and then by FIFA, if we jump those hurdles then the end aim is to...