Yokohama, Japan – Fifa called it a “revolution” but without a Geoff Hurst moment, goalline technology's grand introduction to football passed almost unnoticed – and with few clues of success or failure. After years of clamour for modern technology, there were no obligingly close calls to be made in Thursday's Club World Cup opener in Japan, when one of two rival systems was tested for the first time in a competitive match. Indeed, when Sanfrecce Hiroshima's Toshihiro Aoyama walloped the ball past Auckland City 'keeper...
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