I don’t know if Michel Platini is a fan of Ashes cricket.
If he is, he might have allowed himself a wry smile at the way debates relating to the sport’s attempts to harness technology to improve the quality of on-pitch decisions have provided an engrossing sub-text to the live action as the series has progressed.
Platini as far as I know still opposes use of the sort of goal-line technology that the Premier League will deploy for the first time at Anfield on Saturday when Liverpool and Stoke City kick off the 2013-14 season.
Having witnessed Frank Lampard’s ‘goal’ that wasn’t for England against Germany at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Bloemfontein, I have to say that I am with Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore on this one: it is indeed “a very exciting development in world football”.