David Moyes is the latest football manager facing FA charges, for complaining that Manchester United have been “playing referees as well as the opposition.” But could technology - increasingly used in sports like tennis, cricket and rugby - ever eliminate such feelings of injustice from football?

In other sports where technology is used, decisions tend to be categorically right or wrong: the ball is either in or out.

Football has elements where technology could work similarly well. Goal-line technology is one. After a series of high profile incidents, such as Frank Lampard’s ‘ghost goal’ against Germany in the 2010 World Cup, it has been introduced for Premier League matches this season.

But beyond that, the rules of football are a grey area. Where is the dividing line between foul and fair? The Match of the Day sofa is regularly split down the middle. No matter how many times a decision is reviewed, there will still be reasoned but opposing verdicts. And with the ball typically in play for only around 60 of the full 90 minutes, football can do without any more stoppages.

In any case, chance and controversy are integral to football. Compare rugby, where territory and possession almost inevitably result in tries and penalties and the most promising passages of play are rewarded.But in football, a probing attack on goal is all or nothing;adding in the controversy of refereeing decisions makes for a potent mix. Does the referee award a penalty for a handball, even though the defender was looking the other way? Does he send off the centre-back for a reckless lunge early in the first half, or merely give him a caution?

These decisions are part of the intoxicating ebb and flow of football, which brings despair in defeat and elation in victory. No amount of technology could answer these questions, and football is all the more exhilarating for them.