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Another incident occurred in August 2009 in a league match between Crystal Palace and Bristol City. Striker Freddie Sears knocked the ball over the line from close range, butthe ball bounced off the stanchion below the net and then came back out. The goal was not given and Palace manager Neil Warnock was furious.[3][4] In March 2010, the InternationalFootball Association Board, which determines the laws of the game, voted 6-2 to
In association football, goal-line technology is a proposed technology which determines when theball has crossed the goal-line, thus indicating whether a goal has been scored or not. Football's governing body FIFA have so far resisted the opportunity to introduce anytechnology that would alter the officiating of the sport by the referee or fourth official.
The question of the inclusion of goal-line technology began to be raised in 2005 after agame in the English Premiership between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, in which Portuguese midfielder Pedro Mendes hit a shot 45 yards from goal. United goalkeeper RoyCarroll caught the ball and then dropped it at least a yard over the line before clawing it back out, but neither the referee nor the linesman saw the ball cross the line.[1] Inresponse to this, FIFA decided to test a system by Adidas in which a football with an embedded microchip would send a signal to the referee if it crossed a sensor going through thegoal.[2] According to FIFA president Sepp Blatter: "We did different tests at the Under-17 World Cup in Peru but the evidence wasn't clear so we will carry out trials in juniorcompetitions in 2007".[2] However, those trials did not materialise and by 2008, Blatter had rejected the system outright, describing the technology as 'only 95% accurate'.[2]