By Les Tan/Red Sports

If England’s second goal by Frank Lampard had stood and the score became 2-2, would it have made a difference?

Who knows, but since Germany so comprehensively beat the English, complaints should be few. (Unless you are English.)

Some — probably punters — will curse and swear about the officials but in truth, there would have been no way either the assistant referee or the match referee could have seen it.

For sure, the match referee, given his position nearer the centre of the pitch will not see it.

That leaves us with the assistant referee. Is it possible for him to see it? He had no choice but to stay in line with the last German defender to ensure that he gets any offside calls correctly.

From his position, he probably had no way to see where the ball landed exactly unless he was 3m tall.

And don’t forget — referees do not have 30 cameras from every imaginable angle to see what happened.

Given the speed of the action, it is not the fault of the match officials.

So why doesn’t FIFA, the world governing body, approve video technology? If the NBA uses it, why can’t FIFA?

FIFA, that autocratic institution that just told the French government not to interfere with the French Football Federation like it was a democratically elected government itself, should reconsider their position.

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