Football must watch out for the dangers of technology, just look at cricket

Have we got technology wrong? I speak as one who has always believed that sport should use technology. Yet the events in the first Ashes Test between England and Australia have made me think that technology may be becoming a sporting monster. I am well aware that the use of technology in football bears no relation to cricket, given how different the two games are. But the question is how far do you allow technology to decide events on the field of play.

Indeed watching the events from the Test match made me feel that Michel Platini may have a point when he says that he is opposed to technology. And that he would never want football decisions to be reached with the help of machinery - to introduce technology in the world game would ultimately mean that decisions would be taken not by the man on the field but by a person watching the match on a screen in a room and pushing buttons.