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How to Test Hawkeye's Goal Setting System

FIFA have been looking at this for, I think, around about 10 years and they've been honing in and doing lots of trials. So the accuracy, it very much depends on the test that we do, but it's an accuracy level that is virtually imperceptible by the human eye. It's millimetres of tolerance that we're looking at. And I suppose in cricket and tennis, those millimetres can be the difference between a point or a wicket. Paul Hawkins mentioned there, he mentioned the plane of the goal. So that presumably is the vertical shape of the goal that you have to cross. How accurate is that in terms of it being straight up?

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