Hanging just above the reception at Wembley Stadium is a long, white pole.

As tourists flock to the iconic "Home of Football" they gaze toward the slightly discolored and aging artifact.

In days gone past, some would rub it. Some would kiss it. Some would simply walk past while muttering "Nein" under their breath.

But to underestimate the contribution of this seemingly lifeless piece of apparatus would be criminal.

Some 47 years since that pole played an integral role in deciding the 1966 World Cup final, FIFA, the game's governing body, has announced that goal-line technology will be used at the tournament in Brazil in 2014.

When tourists take the grand tour of Wembley, they begin at the "Crossbar reception" where they will find that iconic feature still hanging to this day.

It was on July 30, 1966 that Geoff Hurst appeared to fire England into a 3-2 lead on the way to victory over West Germany.

Hurst's effort, which hit the crossbar and bounced down "over" the line, was awarded by referee Gottfried Dienst and Soviet linesman Tofik Bakhramov amid heavy protestations

England eventually went on to win the contest 4-2, lifting the Jules Rimet trophy for the first and only time.

Yet, even now, following years of fierce debate and the introduction of technology, nobody has definitively proved whether the correct decision was made that day.