The FA once again wastes everybody’s time with latest initiative – instead of implementing something that should be a no-brainer.

The Premier league is due to introduce goal line technology from next season to address the issue and surely more will follow in other areas in the coming seasons, now that the barrier has been breached and the anti-technology lobby bypassed or won over.

The amount of money swilling around UEFA and the best idea they can find to move football on into the twenty first century is to stick another official behind each goal, you quite literally ‘couldn’t make it up’.