“I’m not overly sure that goal-line technology or technology in football is the way forward,” Jonathan Ford told the BBC. “Is football really ready to embrace that full technology? If you start [with] the goal-line technology where do you end?”
Football's world governing body FIFA is under pressure over the matter after Frank Lampard's shot was deemed not to be a goal despite hitting the ground at least a foot over the line in England's 4-1 World Cup defeat to Germany on Sunday.
The IFAB comprises the four home nations’ football associations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), with one vote each, and FIFA, which has four votes. Any decision must be ratified by six votes. Only England and Scotland voted for the introduction of goalline technology at IFAB’s last meeting in March.
In a separate report, Tijs Tummers, technical committee secretary for FIFPRO, the footballers’ international union, said that FIFA’s refusal to introduce goal-line technology was “unacceptable”.
