The International Football Association Board (IFAB) took the right decision in not allowing technology in football.

There are various reasons why the appeal by certain associations was turned down. The foremost, as stated by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, was the question of cost.

If the IFAB put something into the laws then this must be applied worldwide. It will be almost impossible for the bigger countries, such as England, Germany or Italy, to furnish technological equipment to all their leagues, let alone countries where the game is still developing.

It is not a question of putting the word 'may' in the laws, like there is for the fourth official, as you cannot have one match being played with goalline help yet none of the modern technology in place for the return leg.

There is also the question of human error. This is part and parcel of the game. The mistakes committed by referees and their assistants are minimal compared to the hundreds of poor finishing every week by players the world over.

So many players fluff easy chances in front of goal yet no corrective action has ever been asked to be taken. The misses by players cost clubs millions of euros in lost revenue if objectives are not reached.

Another non-decision by the IFAB is the use of six officials in a match.

So far the experiment has been used in the Europa League and a decision on whether to include it in the Laws of the Game will be taken in May.

One asks, has the introduction of a further two officials behind the goal-line been successful?

Watching matches on television one could easily see that a top referee like Florian Meyer, of Germany, was getting mixed up in the Juventus-Fulham tie last week as at times he strayed too far away from his usual diagonal position, thus giving his back to the assistant and so not having that important eye contact with him.

Again the question of finances crops up here. This has already cost UEFA additional budgets to cover air travel, hotel and allowances.

Will this be possible for national associations to operate such a system? I very much doubt it. A country must also have the number of referees required at all levels to implement such a scheme.

Let the IFAB introduce changes to the Laws of the Game but only when these can realistically be applied. Technology will not help by just introducing it on the goal-line. Some will soon want a camera to tell the referee whether he/she was right or wrong in awarding a free-kick.

This would mean loss of time and taking decisions out of the hands of a trained human being. Finance in this day and age is something else which must be kept in mind when the IFAB makes decisions especially with so many clubs teetering on the brink of financial collapse.