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The chairman of England's Football Association is hopeful that recent advances could revive goal-line technology.
The International Football Association Board rejected proposals on the idea last year, but at the weekend decided to investigate again because of improvements in technology.
"There may be some signs of life in the corpse, actually," said FA chairman David Triesman.
"Although I'm not certain over the timeline, I think that people have not closed their minds to it as much as I feared they had at the end of that meeting [last year]."
Cairos Technologies AG has been developing a microchip-imbedded ball with adidas that transmits a signal to the referee's watch, alerting him if the ball has crossed the goal line.
However, the IFAB said that a professional football league would experiment with using additional assistant referees behind each goal next season.
No decision has been made on which league would be picked to conduct the experiment, but Italy and France have volunteered to host the trial - although it would likely be done in the second division of those countries - and Major League Soccer also appears to be a contender because of its large crowds and significant television coverage.
- AP
