Goal-line technology could be introduced to the Premier League as early as next season Tests are ongoing on two potential goal-line systems but, assuming the technology is deemed reliable, it will be ratified by football's rule-makers, the International FA Board, in July. It would then be almost impossible for the Premier League clubs to agree on, licence and install a system before the start of the new season in August. Scudamore, though, would now be in favour of introducing the innovation mid-season. His argument is that it would not amount to a rule-change but simply a new mechanism to enforce an existing law. It means that goal-line technology could potentially be introduced in the Premier League by the end of this calendar year. "I think it is almost physically impossible for it to be in by the beginning of August, just in terms of Fifa not approving it until July," said Scudamore. You have then got to get involved with the people who are producing it and negotiate with them. You cannot rush something Having said all that, we also don't think that it needs to be at the start of the season. When we are ready to go, we can go with it. The law is not changing - that is still about whether the ball has gone over the line or not. The fact that we will have a better way of detecting that does not alter the integrity of the competition. It had been thought that Major League Soccer in the United States, whose season begins in March, had been best placed to be the first league to introduce the technology. "There is no race - there are no egos here," said Scudamore. We just want to get it right.