Goal-line system could deceive viewers

Technology designed to eliminate sporting mistakes can result in fake footage, writes Tim Moynihan

THE long-awaited introduction of goal-line technology to football is likely to perpetrate a mass deception on television viewers, a journalist has claimed.

In use for a decade or more in tennis and cricket, the technology is to be used by the GAA for games at Croke Park in this season’s Championship, and in next season’s Premier League.