Goal line Tech

I recently discovered that England's Football Association (FA) (as in Soccer) have decided to re-visit the notion of goal line technology. To most of us across the ocean, this means little if nothing, but across the world, Football (Soccer) is as common and established as seeing a Starbucks at every street corner in New York city. Wonder how crazy all the business men and women would react if they didn't their morning fix of coffee? Its about as crazy as Soccer fans get when it comes to that sport. Bottom line...you don't want to know.

Anyway, the FA has decided to try out what it would be like if there are little tiny sensors in every soccer ball that will alert the referees when the ball has crossed the goal line. (For more information about the new soccer ball, check out this previous post)
The idea is to have tiny sensors on the field at either end of the goal line (refer to picture above) or by the edges of the goal posts and also another sensor in the actual soccer ball. This way, there will be no need for second guessing or relying on the eyes of other referees or improper camera angles to figure out exactly if there was a goal or not.

A side benefit to adding sensors to the field is that they can also be used to determine if the soccer ball has gone out of bounds on either side. The only issues that arise are how the sensor(s) will be placed in the soccer ball without disintegrating when a player kicks the ball and also how expensive this technology will be.

One thing is certain: the game will go on sensor or no sensor.