Wenger - Technology won’t slow game down

Arsene Wenger has dismissed fears that goal-line technology will slow the game down.

The Premier League announced on Thursday that the Hawk-Eye video system will be in place for the start of the 2013/14 campaign.

 The news has split opinion, but Wenger insists it will not have a negative impact on the natural flow of top-flight matches.

“When a referee speaks to a player for two minutes and says, 'be careful because if you come back and make a bad tackle I’ll be in a position to give you a yellow card' and doesn’t do anything else, you can argue it slows the game down,” he said.

“When a goalkeeper takes a minute over a goal kick, you could argue it slows the game down. I don’t believe [technology] would slow the game down at all if it is done in the right way.

“There are a lot of things to work out because if you look at goal-line technology, it took them two years to get it right. I’m amazed we are resistant on the principle of moving forward for more justice in our sport.

“If it was to sell more publicity [or] if it was for financial reasons then I don’t agree with it. But if it is to get more decisions right then we all have to fight for it.”