Our Academy will help the Premier League with a test of goalline technology in the coming months.

Hawk-Eye, the company who are used at Wimbledon tennis club and in international cricket, have been given the go-ahead by the League to further investigate using technology to determine when the ball has crossed the line.

The technology is likely to be tested in a match situation.

Paul Hawkins, managing director of Hawk-Eye Innovations, told BBC Five Live's Sportsweek: "We have a contract with the Premier League to develop a system purely to resolve the dispute whether the ball crossed the line, purely for the referee and not for television.

"The process is to be evaluated by the Premier League and then by FIFA, if we jump those hurdles then the end aim is to have it installed in all Premier League grounds hopefully."

Hawkins believes the technology could be a part of the Premier League within two years if tests go to plan and it receives FIFA approval.

He added: "It will be tested next month and the process will evolve from there.

"It took a couple of years in tennis from the start of tests to it being used and we can probably expect the same timeframe."

Hawkins hopes his innovation will be used again at next year's Wimbledon.

"A few players like Nadal have questioned it but every single time it has been proven to be correct so it's been an overriding success," he said.