Graham Kelly, Football Association chief executive, on the prospect of using technological aids to assist referees' decisions.n I think it's inevitable that there will be discussions about whether technology can be used to ensure referees make the right decisions, but it will be a question of degree. Technology could be used to decide whether the ball has crossed the line but, in the case of grey areas such as contact between players and handball decisions, it will surely be impossible to have anyone other than the referee making on-the-spot decisions. If it's going to take three or four minutes for a fourth official studying four or five different camera angles on a video, that would cause more problems than it solves. Gordon Taylor, Professional Footballers' Association chief executive.n If we use the cameras to stop the games after every incident, you would never finish the match. Sepp Blatter, Fifa general secretary.n If we had a fourth official in the stand looking at a video, we could see games being held up for several minutes. That would make a nonsense of the game and it would clearly be impractical.

John Camkin, League Managers' Association secretary.n We are not adverse to new technology. We would have to look at it, but it would have to benefit the game in general. What we all have to remember is that football has always been a controversial game. So if we have a third eye in the stand, how long are the crowd and players going to be prepared to wait before a decision comes back to the referee, and how many camera angles will you need to ensure that decision is absolutely right? Arthur Smith, Referees' Association general secretary.n The key is to improve both communications and information to the referee and ultimately we would want to record the position of players and the ball at every given moment. With cameras it is difficult to cover every angle, which is why I would suggest radio links and the electronic tagging of players. Professor Nigel Allinson, University of Manchester's Institute of Science and Technology (commissioned by the FA).. Martina Hingis was only three years old when last she saw the city of Kosice, her birthplace in Slovakia and home to her father still.

Yesterday, 13 years on, "Martinka" returned from Switzerland, a tennis prodigy, the youngest Grand Slam singles champion of the century and poised to become the youngest world No 1 in history. The Slovak Tennis Federation considered it appropriate to hold the Fed Cup tie against the Hingis-inspired Swiss tomorrow and on Sunday in Kosice rather than Bratislava, even though the Slovakian players are from the capital. "They have given up home advantage," Hingis observed, making plain her intention to put business before pleasure. "I didn't grow up here, so I don't have any memories," she said. "In a way it's nice to see the place where I lived, but the most important thing is the team and the success.

I want to win here.''Jana Kvasnicova, of the Slovak Tennis Federation, dismissed speculation that the choice of venue is designed to rattle Hingis. "The original idea was to play in Bratislava," she said, "but the only suitable hall had already been booked.''The visit to Kosice at least affords Martina the chance of a reunion with her father, Karol, and her paternal grandmother, "Babitschka". Karol Hingis earns pounds 102 per month as the caretaker of the Na Amicce Tennis Club and is helping with the organisation of the tie, which is indoors at the Mestksa Hala. Yesterday he met his daughter at Kosice airport with a bouquet.Such is the fascination with the 16-year-old Hingis, who won the Australian Open singles title last month, that the Swiss tennis federation assigned a bodyguard to the squad on learning that a large number of Slovak journalists had booked rooms at the team's hotel.A Swiss television crew was rebuked by Hingis's mother, Melanie, the team's non-playing captain, for paying too much attention to her daughter during a flight from Vienna. "This is not fair on the other girls," Melanie said, indicating Patty Schnyder and Emmanuelle Gagliardi.