WORK is well underway to ensure controversial goal decisions are a thing of the past at Loftus Road next season.





Following QPR’s promotion to the Premier League the R’s are installing the Hawkeye Goal Decision System, a requirement in the top flight since the start of the 2013/14 season.





Around half of the 14 required cameras have already been installed at Rangers home.













The system will see referees and their three assistants informed, within a fraction of a second, that the ball has crossed the line.





Seven cameras are installed around each goal, with the Hawk-Eye system – similar to that used in cricket and tennis – operated at 320 frames per second, much faster than normal broadcasting cameras.





If the ball is clearly visible, pictures to ''prove'' the ball was over or not over the line will be made available to broadcasters and stadium big screens almost instantaneously, while computerised illustrations for situations where the ball is obscured will be available within 20 seconds, even though the referee will be able to give the goal – or not – straightaway.





Officials wearing a special watch will receive a message reading ‘Goal’ as well as it bleeping. They will also hear a signal over their communication system saying ‘goal, goal, goal’ when the ball has crossed the line.













That should mean that controversies like Clint Hill’s wrongly ruled out goal against Bolton Wanderers during the R’s last outing in the Premier League would be a thing of the past.





Hill “scored” with a header in QPR’s 2-1 defeat at the Reebok Stadium in March 2012 but it was not spotted by the officials.





It won’t however be the first time that the system has been used in a QPR fixture. GDS was operational in the R’s Play-Off Final win against Derby County at Wembley Stadium in May.



