http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6281768.stmSo they are to roadtest "hawk-eye" style technology to determine goal line disputes. About bleeding time the mugs caught up!
Even the antiquated game of cricket has replays for run outs. Ok so they don't use hawkeye to determine LBW appeals yet but if they did that then all the umpires would be good for would be waving their arms, slapping their thighs and holding bowler's jumpers and sunglasses.
They'd basically be redundant and would inevitably be thrown on the scrapheap meaning the pitch would be littered with hats, sunnies and discarded jumpers. A complete mess. So the umpires must stay.
Tennis. A player can now challenge a call and as seen yesterday when Nadal challenged an incorrect call on a set point to Federer this can be crucial (well i say crucial, he still lost the set!)
A goal in football can potentially be worth 10s of millions of pounds when it affects relegation/ CL qualification results. So well done to the old fuddy-duddies who run football while sucking up their horlicks and sitting in their rocking chairs with pipes and slippers for embracing the "new" technology (10 years old) available to make football a fairer game.
Now all we need are Ref-Bots....
These machines would....
....be faster than teh offspring of michael owen and thierry henry
....be able to take an elbow in the face from ben thatcher without flinching
....be capable of not falling over like a malco-ordinated clown if shoved in the chest by paolo di canio
....could rugby tackle streakers
....make impartial decisions about penalty claims at Old Trafford
and many, many other things.
Bring on the future!
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