Not really. It just so happens that, unlike two years ago, FIFA are very likely to vote for goal line technology in a couple of weeks time. It been planned for a while, the testing and trials have been completed, and it all seems to have gone well.
In fact it was the goal line incident two years ago that changed Blatter's mind on the issue and helped start the process which, entirely coincidentally, comes to it's conclusion in less than a months time. It just wasn't really widely reported at the time because of the paranoid victim complex we seem to have. Here is the story from two years ago:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2010/0...65S1O320100629
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"It is obvious that after the experiences so far at this World Cup it would be a nonsense not to reopen the file on goalline technology," Blatter said at a briefing with selected media on Tuesday.
He [Blatter] was referring specifically to the incident in Sunday's England-Germany match at Bloemfontein when a shot from England midfielder Frank Lampard struck the bar and bounced down well over the line when England, chasing a comeback, were 2-1 down.
"We are going forward and will announce something in October or November, because something needs to change."
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and then one year ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9415682.stm
Quote:
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter says goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil if a suitable system is approved in time.
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So Blatter has actually been quite consistent on this since that England vs Germany goal line incident. Only now his comments last night have been portrayed as a sudden U-Turn motivated by anti-English sentiment. may not like him but fair is fair. We're really not as disliked as we like to think but we have to start performing on the pitch rather than whine in the papers.