Keeper Cech joins chorus for goalline technology

Petr Cech has called for goalline technology to be introduced as soon as possible following the controversy over Andy Carroll’s disallowed goal at Wembley; and he insists it should have happened a decade ago.

Cech is adamant that Carroll’s late header, which he spectacular clawed out from close range, did not cross the line and referee Phil Dowd was right not to award it. But he also feels technology could have made the whole incident far easier to deal with.

“I’ve been saying it for 10 years. Every time you see a big competition, even when I was a teenager watching on television, and you see a goal which is given that wasn’t a goal you think, ‘I’m sitting in front of my telly, the game is live, in 10 seconds I knew it wasn’t a goal why can’t the official know the same thing’?