“At the moment it’s a luxury cost. That’s why you’ll see it mainly in high-level competitions,” Valcke told a news conference in Tokyo yesterday. “I don’t think that for the time being you will see this goal-line technology system used in minor leagues.

“But I could expect or could imagine that the English Premier League and such leagues where the result is important, where there is so much interest, money, financial implication, you will see sooner or later a goal-line system in place.”

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Fans have called for years for football to embrace technology aimed at eliminating human error, citing its use in other sports including tennis and cricket.

In July, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) decided to use goal-line technology at the Club World Cup, next year’s Confederations Cup and the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.u00a0