Just take a moment to think of the many controversial decisions not to award goals throughout the history of football...

The most horrendous has to be not awarding Tottenham Hotspur a goal in January 2005 after midfielder Pedro Mendes hit a 55-yard shot which Manchester United keeper Roy Carroll failed to deal with. The keeper caught the ball, but it slipped out of his hand and dropped more than a yard over the line, Carroll pushed the ball back out and neither the referee nor his assistant saw it despite huge protests by Spurs players.

The incident ignited the need for correct decisions to be made over goals that cross the line or not.

FIFA had been outspoken over a goal-line system but not until Frank Lampard had a goal wrongly disallowed against Germany at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa did the governing body really mean business. Goal-line technology officially debuted at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup. The system would decide a goal for the first time in a FIFA organised tournament at the 2014 edition when Honduras keeper Noel Valladares dropped a Karim Benzema shot on the goal line.

The EPL decided to use goal-line technology for the 2013-2014 season and the first goal to be decisively awarded by the system was Edin Dzeko’s goal for Manchester City against Cardiff City on January 18 2014.

Swansea’s 1-0 victory away to Arsenal on Monday night had goal-line technology to thank once again.

Bafetimbi Gomis nodded the ball home from a Jefferson Montero cross but the effort was palmed away by Arsenal keeper David Ospina. Gomis was convinced that it had crossed the line but Ospina wasn’t. The Colombian number one was proved wrong as it was signalled via Referee Kevin Friend’s watch that the ball had crossed the line. The graphic video replays showed it clearly too. Had goal-line technology not been used, the goal might not have been awarded despite being clear.

That debate might have raged on for weeks!

Gary Cahill’s equaliser for Chelsea in the Blues’ 2-1 victory at Liverpool last November showed how goal-line technology is a brilliant innovation.

TV replays could not ascertain if the ball had crossed the line because Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet had his body covering the line, yet the referee gave it by virtue of the system which was analysed graphically as proof.

Had goal-line technology not been employed, Cahill’s goal might have brought memories of the ‘ghost goal’ scored by Liverpool’s Luis Garcia in the Champions League semi final against Chelsea in May 2005. He poked the ball towards goal with William Gallas frantically clearing off the line. The referee gave the goal but Chelsea players showed their displeasure over the decision. Football analysts had used all available resources to analyse the goal but no conclusion was made as to whether it crossed the line or not. Had goal line technology been employed then, the truth would have been known.

Goal-line technology has now proven to be a success as it has been able to answer those wrong decisions made by referees but not everyone likes the idea.

UEFA has disapproved of it and instead employed having an official behind goal but anyone who is conversant knows it hasn’t been effective. The referee behind goal failed to spot Marko Devic’s shot that briefly crossed the line before John Terry cleared in a group encounter between England and Ukraine at Euro 2012.

So far only the English Premier League and Major League Soccer employ the system, but it will be used in the German Bundesliga from next season. That means that in other parts of the world, referee decisions will face errors and more debates will linger.

However, the truth is that the human element is what makes football the beautiful game it is.

Football was invented to prompt debates! Debating controversies keep the game intense and interesting.

Had Luis Garcia’s ‘ghost goal’ been decided by goal-line technology, this legendary debate wouldn’t be continuing today. It would have been put to bed at the moment of impact. Goal-line technology might have removed a bit of the human element in football but it doesn’t remove the debates that define the game embedded in the blood of the passionate fan which aren’t seen in any other sport.

Read it on: http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4082/editorial/2015/05/13/11692102/goal-line-technology-has-it-made-football-boring

Football without ojoro na dey sweet

That goal line technology would definitely take some fun out of football, that moment when some part of the spectator didn't know if it's a goal or not and the other side of the stadium thinks it's a goal. That's what makes the game interesting, before goal line it was left to the referee to decide what to do. The referees decision won't favor both teams no matter what, one side has to take fall.

With goal line technology all those ojoro won't happen. I hope they won't put handball detector in football soon.

The goal line technology is a good innovation.