Persuasive Essay On Goal Line Technology

Throughout last decade the technology is in its elite position. And several organizations and field has begun adapting the expanding technology by implementing the technology. Amongst the various organization, the organization which handle and regulate the world most popular sport: Soccer, or football as it is known in countries except the USA, called Federation International De Football Association (FIFA) has recently implemented a new technology in field of soccer called goal line technology: it is a technical means of instantly determining whether or not the whole of the ball has crossed the goal-line, not more and not less (as stated by IFAB for the definition of Goal line technology). After a huge exercise and request made by IFAB (International …show more content…
So, Goal line technology is useless and should not be used in soccer, human judgement should not be judged with any machines. Before raising these sort of questions we should get known to the way how goal line technology works. The Hawk Eye system is a technology developed to determine the position of the ball on the field; specifically it will be used to determine if the ball has crossed the goal line. Hawk Eye was developed in 1999 by Dr. Paul Hawkins in the United Kingdom (“Goal-line”, 2010). In the article “Goal-line technology-Getting it right” (2010) the Hawk Eye system is explained. It says that the Hawk Eye system uses high speed cameras set up around the field of play. The system uses triangulation, the high speed images and timing data to calculate the position of the ball. This sort of technology is already being used in other sports like cricket. In the article written for the English publication called “Goal-line technology: Is it time ?” the author Wilson believes that such high profile games that have a huge financial impact on teams should be based on a fact rather than the opinions of a referee and linesman (Wilson,