Crystal Palace forward Freddie Sears scored in the Eagles' Championship against Bristol City on Saturday. The ball struck the bar at the back of the goal bouncing back out, yet both referee Rob Shoebridge and his assistant failed to see this and awarded a goal kick.

Referees chief Keith Hackett is now demanding FIFA utilise goal-line technology.

"I think the major issue centres around the fact for a number of years PGMOB have been calling for goal-line technology to be introduced," Hackett told ESPN.

"In fairness the Premier League worked with Hawkeye to achieve a product that the Premier League wanted to put into an operation as an experiment with the full support of the Football League, Football Association, LMA and PFA.

"All the parties were in favour but, at the international board meeting in Gleneagles a year ago, FIFA and Sepp Blatter decided the experiment could not go ahead," continued Hackett.

"All we are looking for is fairness, to the players and the manager and the supporters, and we want a support mechanism to say 'is it a goal or not a goal'.

"The ref carries the can with his colleagues but we've already said we need help in this particular field. Until the international board change their mind, we can't do anything."

Hackett revealed that the referee and his assistant had been removed from midweek duties.

"He (Shoebridge) was scheduled to do a game in mid-week. He won't be doing that. The ref has been spoken to," he explained.

"It applies to the referee's assistant as well. Ideally you want the assistant looking from one angle and the ref from another.

Therefore between them you want the decision to be right," he said.

"There are two sides to it. You don't want to negatively effect the confidence of the ref but we are also protecting him.

"If you are involved in that type of decision, it is good to have a few days away and reflect and we will examine and talk about it and how we can avoid it going forward.''