The Premier League has approved the use of goal-line technology in the English top flight from the 2013-14 season onwards, it was announced on Thursday. British-based firm Hawk-Eye was chosen to supply the technology at a meeting attended by the chairmen of the 20 Premier League clubs. "I'm for it and all the other clubs are for it. They are all in favour," Stoke City chairman Peter Coates told Sky Sports television. "(Hawk-Eye) were the preferred bidders and I am sure they got it right."

BERLIN, March 9 (Reuters) - Mainz 05 coach Thomas Tuchel said he no longer understood the interpretation of the handball rule after his own team benefitted from a controversial penalty to beat Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday. The spot kick was awarded after Bo Svensson's shot appeared to hit Manuel Friedrich's hand, although there looked to be no way the defender could have got out of the way. "It's controversial to say that Manuel Friedrich handled the ball in the area," Tuchel told reporters.

ZURICH, March 1 (Reuters) - A fourth system of goal-line technology has been approved and granted a licence, soccer's governing body FIFA said on Friday. FIFA said that the German-produced GoalControl 4D used 14 high-speed cameras placed around the pitch and directed at both goals to determine whether the ball had entered the goal. "The position of the ball is continually and automatically captured in three dimensions as soon as it approaches the goal-line," said FIFA in a statement.

(Clarifies drop ball in par 18) BERNE, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The controversial "triple punishment", where a player gives away a penalty, is sent off and automatically suspended, has been left off the agenda for the next meeting of soccer's rule-making body. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) will, however, discuss proposed changes to the drop-ball and offside rules which soccer's governing body FIFA hopes will make referees' decisions more clear-cut and less open to interpretation.