Groundbreaking Euro 2024 technology branded 'absolutely ridiculous' with demand for it to be banned now

The groundbreaking technology supposedly can track every touch at a rate of 500 times a second and was used by VAR officials at the 2022 World Cup.

But there was controversy with the first use of the snickometer at Euro 2024 during the game between Belgium and Slovakia.

The Belgians were denied a late equaliser after the technology showed a small spike when replays showed the ball brushing Lois Openda's hand in the build-up to the goal.

The attacker was jostling with Denis Vavro when his hand brushed the ball, which the officials felt was enough proof to rule the goal out.

However, Halsey, speaking to GB News on behalf of Online Poker, disagreed with the decision and feels 'snicko' has no place in football.

"When you're running in a running motion, so his arms are in a natural position for that phase of play - being hustled by the defender, the little nudge, so it takes his arm as well," he told GB News.

"Obviously, they brought in this ball technology and the Snicko.

"Let's take snicko away from football. This is not cricket. This snicko thing is absolutely ridiculous.

"But yes, it does brush his arm, his hand, but it's not a deliberate handball and Openda's still got a long way to go. He's got a lot to do.

"And what we've got to remember is he's gone down, he's crossed the ball, Lukaku has put the ball in the net.

"So it's not Openda who's scored the goal. If it's him, then law, even though it's accidental, you have to disallow the goal. But it wasn't.

"His arms were in a natural position for that phase of play and VAR shouldn't have got involved in that situation because it's not a clear and obvious error.

"We've got to look at law 12 handling ball. It has to be a deliberate error, a deliberate movement of the arm to the ball and your arms in an unnatural position or you're making yourself bigger.

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"If we look at the Champions League, it works ever so well. I think since we had the PSG Newcastle, that was a terrible, terrible, poor decision. Terrible.

"On those situations, you want the referee to be, when he goes over to that monitor, you want him to be mentally tough, mentally strong, to stick with his on-field decision.

"We see that in the Premier League. For me, referees basically know the laws. They don't know the game of football.

"So there's one area that I think that could improve with VAR, knowing what's natural, what's unnatural in certain phases of play."