Defender rues lack of goal-line technology in Chesterfield defeat

Many onlookers believed Lee Bonis’s header late in the first half had crossed the line and should have counted.

Instead, the home side went into the break 2-0 up instead of 2-1 up and that buffer proved enough for them to go on and collect three points.

"I didn’t realise we didn’t have goal technology in this league,” Chesterfield centre-half Kyle McFadzean told Spireites TV.

"I asked him (the official) and he said ‘we don’t have it’. I said: ‘you what?’ It’s over the line and it should be a goal.”

EFL uses goal-line technology only in the Championship during regular league play. It is not installed for regular season matches in League One or League Two due to the costs and logistics for lower-league clubs, although it is used in the play-offs.

McFadzean didn’t put the defeat purely down to the lack of “Hawk-Eye”.

"We had enough chances to win two games,” he said.

"We also should have done better with their goals. It was stupid give-aways, sometimes we’re susceptive to that. We have to be a little bit better with that but we played really well. Performance wise we were happy with it but obviously not to lose. It’s a tough one to take.”

A veteran of more than 500 league games, “Fadz” is no stranger to harsh defeats and hopes things even themselves out over time.

“I must have played a lot of games where I’ve felt hard done by,” he added. “You would think we would get more victories playing like that and one day we might get one like them (Cheltenham) where we get battered and win, which sometimes happens.

“We’ve got to take the positives out of it and take it into the next one.”