Goal line tech

[Lard_Lad]

Goal line technology going to be in the championship as of next season apparently.

 

[Ricky]

Not surprising. There's no reason for it not to be.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Why is it always called "goal-line technology" in the media and by the football authorities?

It's a fucking camera and that's that. More Modern Football linguistic bollocks.

 

[Lard_Lad]

Why is it always called "goal-line technology" in the media and by the football authorities?

It's a fucking camera and that's that. More Modern Football linguistic bollocks.

What would you prefer it to be called?

Maybe something like

Cameras above the goal to determine whether the football has crossed the goal line so the ref can award a goal to the team who struck the ball towards the goal line.

 

[JohnDenver]

Why is it always called "goal-line technology" in the media and by the football authorities?

It's a fucking camera and that's that. More Modern Football linguistic bollocks.

I thought it was a radar tracking system, much like Hawkeye of stickball fame.

 

[Tyler Durden]

What would you prefer it to be called?

Maybe something like

Cameras above the goal to determine whether the football has crossed the goal line so the ref can award a goal to the team who struck the ball towards the goal line.

Just 'goal cameras' would suffice.

I don't call my phone "telecommunications technology".

 

[Pierre's PC]

I don't call my phone "telecommunications technology".

I call mine Jeff.

 

[s4-blade]

It says the championships clubs have agreed in principle. The "championship clubs" probably meaning that Rotherham have a say in what happens next year but we don't, despite us being the ones who'll have to foot the bill and live with the decision. But yes, it is good news.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I thought it was a radar tracking system, much like Hawkeye of stickball fame.

Football mainly has the Goal Control 4D system which is a network of high-speed cameras. The Hawkeye is also used but not as widely as in other sports. I think thats's camera-based too.

 

[Lard_Lad]

Do we have to pay or is it partly subsidised by the FA (no chance of that I'm guessing, why would the fa chose to help anyone that isn't top 4 Prem or West Ham).

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I thought it was those pesky footballing gods that decided whether the ref gave it or not.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

When it reaches Concord Park Pitch 23.
Then and ONLY then will I be impressed.

 

[Silent Blade]

When it reaches Concord Park Pitch 23.
Then and ONLY then will I be impressed.

Concord Park pitch number 23

 

[Tyler Durden]

Ah Concord Park. My old stomping ground.

#memries

 

[More Bladier than thou]

It should be in every single ground in the football league. Paid for by the football league. If refs in the lower leagues have their shaving foam for free kicks, they can afford it ! Equality across the board.

 

[Esablade]

Why is it always called "goal-line technology" in the media and by the football authorities?

It's a fucking camera and that's that. More Modern Football linguistic bollocks.

You should see this new fangled 'ref-mouth' tech they're on about bringing in...

 

[Tyler Durden]

You should see this new fangled 'ref-mouth' tech they're on about bringing in...

Ah the old forced-expiration activated oral game management technology.

 

[BushBlade]

Ah the old forced-expiration activated oral game management technology.

If you think about though, we couldn't be bothered to give it a proper name, we just named it after the noise it makes.

 

[derfblade.3]

 

[Tyler Durden]

If you think about though, we couldn't be bothered to give it a proper name, we just named it after the noise it makes.

Which is exactly why goal-line technology should be renamed the 'clickety snap'.

 

[gavtheblade]

Scored a cracking goal up at concord for the blue bell hackenthorpe.
1998 I think.The walk to the pitch was like 10 mins hike from the changing block!!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Ah Concord Park. My old stomping ground.

#memries

Mine too - the only place where I've had my putt interrupted by a Ford Escort driving across the green, pursued by a police helicopter.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Mine too - the only place where I've had my putt interrupted by a Ford Escort driving across the green, pursued by a police helicopter.

Surprised your ball wasn't nicked long before by some little prick from Hinde House school.*

*I was one of those little pricks from Hinde House school.

 

[The_Green_Man]

Ahh good old Concord......The place where you couldn't leave any valuables in neither the changing rooms nor the car therefore usually ended up changing into wet clothes due to the Jack Fulton's bag being used to store them at pitch side springing a leak!

Dreams came true upon graduating into the posher leagues and as a result moving over the road onto the Steel City pitches......The situation being exactly the same as above really however a lesser walk back to the car in squelshy trainers!

Used to be a right old ball ache taking corners though!

True story this believe it or not......On the Steel City pitches in the Saturday league.

All got changed and headed out to warm up when one our keeper discovers a 6 inch nail that had been planted in the 18 yard box (pointed side upwards).....A minute or so later he finds another!... One of the opposition players then finds one in the middle of their half of the pitch and in hope of persuading the ref to play the match, we all scour then pitch and find a few more.....The ref decides that he wasn't going to take any risks and calls the game off.

 

[The_Green_Man]

But then again the above was a luxury in comparison to the Arbourthorne playing fields in which you could turn up to find a burnt out car beneath the goalposts.....Or Kiveton Park behind the train station, in which we rocked up one Sunday morning to find needles and tin foil all over the changing rooms and had to change outside.......Or Rainbow forge school where two lads on a Motorbike took in in turns to shoot across the pitch whilst playing.

Oh the joys!

On a positive note I think my favourite pitches in Sheffield have to be Davy McKee (where everybody hoped to be sub due to the upstairs bar that overlooked the pitch, had a real football ground feel to it)....And Warminster Road always had decent pitches as well.......Brunsmeer was a heart attack waiting to happen due to the pitch side cafe. It was rude not to turn up early for a bacon butty with rashers that had been cooked in no less than an inch of lard!

 

[Davalon]

I call mine Jeff.

Why not Geoff?

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Pity the FA / Premier League don't use good old fashioned 1960's technology ...... the TV camera - to show slow motion replays of their top international players slinging verbal abuse at referees and linesmen (whatever they are called these days) from point blank range and giving retrospective red cards. Wonder why ?

 

[anglian blade]

Football seems to be slowly dragging itself into the 21 century - but as usual goes for the wrong option. How many times a season are goals wrongly awarded or disallowed on the basis thee ball did not cross the line? I suspect only a fraction of the number of times caused by incorrect offside or penalty decisions.

 

[Wapping Blade]

Surprised your ball wasn't nicked long before by some little prick from Hinde House school.*

*I was one of those little pricks from Hinde House school.

That would be Radio_Blade but he was a Firth Parker.

 

[South London Blade]

That would be Radio_Blade but he was a Firth Parker.

No chance of selling them back to you then?