While the latest wave of pleas for the introduction of goal-line technology look reasonable, it is not an item for Capello's own agenda.
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke hailed "a kind of revolution" as the football world prepared for tomorrow's introduction of goal-line technology.
These arguments, along with a desire to keep the game as similar as possible across all levels, have been weakened by what is widely seen as the successful introduction of goal-line technology.
A clear refereeing error at the last World Cup persuaded the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which determines the laws of the game, to sanction the introduction of goal-line technology this summer.
UEFA is scheduled to vote on the introduction of goal-line technology next month, after Euro 2012, and could be testing the approved systems in major leagues before the year is out.
The introduction of goal-line technology only, to address incidents which have happened twice in 44 years in World Cup games between England and Germany, and perhaps half-a-dozen times in Premier League football over a season, is an overkill from which only the technology suppliers (and no doubt Fifa and its agents) will benefit.
Not in March, when Fifa gathers to consider again the introduction of goal-line technology, nor when the suits assemble in South Africa this summer to watch a World Cup tarnished before it has even begun by France's farcical qualification, secured at the Republic of Ireland's expense in November after an illegal goal that might easily have been reversed with the aid of video replay.
Bolton's Coyle said he was fully behind the introduction of goal-line technology.
IFAB are due to make a final decision on the introduction of goal-line technology in early July.
The international players' union, FifPro, has called for the introduction of goal-line technology—hard to organize international tournaments if the players are upset!
