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Goal-line technology now ‘a necessity’ – FIFA boss

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FIFA boss Sepp Blatter (pictured) said on Wednesday that the introduction of goal-line technology is a must after Ukraine appeared to equalise against England in their final Euro 2012 group match but the referee waved play on. “After last night’s match #GLT is no longer an alternative but a necessity,” Blatter wrote on his Twitter account. FIFA boss Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday that the introduction of goal-line technology is a must after Ukraine appeared to equalise against England in their final Euro 2012 group match but the referee waved play on. “After last night’s match #GLT is no longer an alternative but a necessity,” the president of football’s world governing body Sepp Blatter wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Blatter has frequently stated his position in favour of technology to determine disputed decisions, setting him at odds with his counterpart at European football’s governing body UEFA, Michel Platini. Platini this week told reporters in Warsaw that the five off