FIFA says no to technology
03/07/2010 06:14:11 PM
thing is that decision could have been made four years ago.
"It's not based on the fact that technology's not good enough just an ideological idea that technology does not belong in football."
The FA and SFA had both voted in favour of technology but were defeated by six votes to two - FIFA's four votes plus those of the Welsh and Irish FAs.
The IFAB will decide in May whether to pursue the system of having an extra two officials behind each goal-line.
FA chief executive Ian Watmore had also been in favour of goal-line technology and said: "In the end it came down to a difference of opinion about whether you believe the future of football involves technology or not.
"But some of the arguments were very powerful and persuasive and we have to accept them.
"The credibility of football is always improved if you get the critical decisions right. I would have liked to try it out in the real game to see whether it is good or not."