FIFA boss Blatter backs goal-line technology…finally

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has changed his tune on goal-line technology, saying there is now a place for it in the game.

Blatter feels that the International FA board will embrace goal-line videos if it is proven that they can work even if UEFA boss Michel Platini is dead against it.

"My position is that if they work then we will do it,” he told CNN.

"If there is one of these systems that is accurate and immediate, and also not too complicated, then I think goal-line technology has a good chance to be accepted.

"If it works the board will say 'Yes', even if they're conservative.

"Michel Platini is totally against any technical device because he's afraid that when we are in the goal-line technology we could go to the 18-yard line and we can go to the offside position or whatever, but for the time being we are talking about only goal-line technology."