Premiership tests goal-line technology as Hawk-eye swoops next season

THE Premiership is set to test Hawk-eye technology in football with a view to remove doubts over goal-line decisions, the chief of the company that makes the product has said.

The ball-tracking system, which is already used in cricket and tennis, will initially be put to the test at Reading’s academy and then tried out next season but not used by the officials.

Revealed Paul Hawkins, managing director of Hawk-Eye Innovations: “We have a contract with the Premier League to develop a system purely to resolve the dispute whether the ball crossed the line, purely for the referee and not for television.