Such technology affects only instant situations. Of course there is always the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport for more serious disputes, but like all litigation, it is expensive and not always suitable for minor cases.

However, an ideal solution may be at hand in the form of an Ombudsman. Or rather an Ombudswoman.

Someone perfect for that role has just become available. The former UK sports minister Kate Hoey is stepping down from Parliament and will not contest her long-held south London seat at this month's general election.

Back in 1990, the former Northern Ireland junior high jump champion put her foot through sport's political glass ceiling and was for almost three years not only the first female sports minister - three more have followed her rather less conspicuously - but among the finest of the long list of them all, up there on the podium with her mentor Denis Howell, Hugh Robertson, Colin Moynihan and Richard Caborn.

She was my kind of old school Labour politician: scrupulously honest and straight-talking, always playing the game from a moderate inside-left position. Now, like so many of us, she is disenchanted with modern day politics.

After December 12 she will be a free agent and sitting in judgement to help settle sporting disputes would be right up her street. And it could happen.

Like her Tory friend Hugh Robertson, now chair of the British Olympic Association, she has always believed that as far as humanly possible, sport should be non-political.

Before and during the London Olympics in 2012, she emphasised this by acting as an unpaid sports advisor to the then Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, whom she 'quite liked'. Despite not sharing his politics, this worked well. Boris was extremely grateful because while he liked and valued sport, he hardly knew a single soul in it. He once told me memorably that he loved boxing, though he could not name a single professional boxer. "I just love them watching them biffing each other," he giggled.

Hoey knows sport inside out and did a remarkably good job as minister before being stabbed in the back by the then chauvinistic shower running football who detested any interference, especially from a woman.

Hoey, a feisty 73-year-old, would love the job. She's a tough cookie and everyone in grass roots, and particularly Paralympic sports, admired and respected her.

At the very least, assuming he is re-elected as Prime Minister, Boris will repay her by making her a Dame, and it would not surprise me if she was offered the role of sport's Ombudsman, operating from the House of Lords, which would give her added authority. It is a role I know she would relish. We shall see.

One good reason why the role of Ombudsman would suit is because she is no stranger to controversy herself. She is standing down as MP for Vauxhall, which she has been for 30 years, as she faced possible de-selection over her support for Brexit in a constituency which voted overwhelmingly to remain.

She also opposes the bans on handguns and foxhunting, a rare position among Labour MPs.

Hoey has also opposed the smoking ban in clubs and pubs, favours stricter controls on immigration and tougher welfare reform.

Last September, she and the equally rebellious John Mann were the only Labour MPs to vote with the Conservative Government in an attempt to prevent MPs from taking control of the House in an attempt to block a potential no-deal Brexit.

In October, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott claimed Hoey no longer represented the party. While this did not indicate she was being expelled, it did insinuate that Hoey no longer represented the views of the Labour Party in regards to Brexit.

These statements were further reinforced by Hoey's refusal to rule out possible defection to Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. This month, she said she would be voting for the Democratic Union Party (DUP) in the forthcoming general election in her home base of County Antrim in Ulster and that she would put her X for the Conservative Party or the Brexit Party were she voting in London.

And last week she created a further storm when she said that the shadow chancellor John McDonnell - whom she once nominated for the leadership - has now become a "negative presence in the party 'behind-the-scenes'". She told the Daily Telegraph that after a while Jeremy Corbyn realised that he was losing and seems to have given up. "They are kidding themselves that they are still honouring the vote because they haven’t actually revoked Article 50. They think they generally believe they are representing some nice, liberal-minded view on things and if you're not in favour of staying in you are beyond the parliamentary pale."

Eurosceptic Hoey has been a thorn in Labour's side. "We are in a democracy we voted to leave." She has been one of Labour's longest-serving MPs but has become increasingly isolated.

I am sure we have not heard the last of her. Hopefully, neither has sport.