Blog: Another weekend of Premiership football meant another weekend of manufactured controversy doggedly clinging to the back pages, writes Thom Kennedy.

At West Brom, Kenny Dalglish argued the toss over two absolutely nailed on penalties, while at West Ham, Nemanja Vidic tried to argue a penalty incident had taken place outside the box by pointing urgently at the white line where he said the incident took place (which is, of course, part of the penalty area).

Most tiresome of all, however, was at Everton, where the most tedious debate in football roused itself once again, and with even less basis than usual. The moment Jermaine Beckford’s shot bounced off the crossbar and appeared to cross the line (almost. Probably. If you squint.) I instantly knew we were in for another tiresome tirade from some boring old swine or another.

Nobody has ever adequately explained to me why goal-line technology would improve football as a spectator sport.

Frankly, I don’t think it needs improving, and its glorious unpredictability is a major reason for its charm, but there remains a clamour to introduce technology to the game to ‘improve’ decision making.

“How long would it have taken to review that decision?” commentators scream. In the case of Everton, I’ve seen the decision around five times and am still not sure that all the ball crossed all the line, the only set of circumstances that would have warranted a goal being given, yet Everton’s excellent manager David Moyes still insisted his team had been robbed of a goal and that goal-line technology was a must for the future integrity of the game. It would have taken ages to iron that out.

Things go against you in sport. It can’t be helped.

“That’s exactly why the referees need goal-line technology to help them,” wronged managers jabber in the immediate aftermath of fixtures, the elixir of adrenalin still draining from behind their eyes, returning them to their Dr Jekyll-like state after two hours of being possessed by Mr Hyde.

Put simply, it would take too long. A 30-second pause in a football match to review a decision would be 30 seconds too long. There aren’t the natural pauses in a game of football, and in some – not all – cases, reviewing the action from the sidelines would require a couple of minutes of waiting around, and would basically ruin the game.

A Chelsea follower can hardly argue the toss about a decision being ‘fair’ if a decision goes against them.

Is it ‘fair’ that I was born in Darlington, rather than Barcelona, and ended up supporting my local team? Is it ‘fair’ that fans who faithfully follow the Shrews & the Bucks have to put up with Manchester United ‘supporters’ who have never been to Old Trafford and spend their Saturdays in the pub, but still feel entitled to belittle their local team’s loyal fans over a lack of success? Of course not. Sport isn’t fair, otherwise we’d all support the same team and win every week.

Adding technology to football would simply add another layer of gloss to a game that looks increasingly like it was designed by Simon Cowell. We have the most perfect sport on earth being played out in scores of venues around the country every weekend, and that’s just at the professional level. Why do we have to ruin the whole spectacle with this sorry level of scrutiny?

My team has been punished by a dodgy goal line decision this season, as have Shrewsbury a couple of weeks ago. You live with it. You move on. And the moment you hear Alan Shearer mention the words ‘goal-line technology’, you reach for the off-switch and go outside.