stitches after fans attacked him for wrongly disallowing a goal.
'I thought, this will keep happening to refs unless I can find a way of knowing for definite whether the ball crossed the line,' he said.
Mr Cruciali's 'i-ball' will be tried soon in the Bundesliga, Germany's equivalent of the Premiership. 'I hope everything goes well in Germany. If it does, we can launch the ball all over the world,' he told Zoo magazine.
Other hi-tech systems have been tried in the past. German academics devised a 'Smartball', used for an international between Germany and Lithuania last year.
But the ideas, which would cost an estimated £1million to develop, have not gone beyond preliminary trials.
