The announcement follows Blatter's recent calls for goal-line technology to be introduced in reaction to an incident that occurred during Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.

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But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged buyout artists invade.

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But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged-buyout artists invade.

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Critics accuse Mr. Khan of pandering to hard-line Islamists and naively seeing violent extremism as merely a reaction to the American military presence in neighboring Afghanistan.

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