Football’s rule-makers are divided over plans to roll out video technology from the start of the World Cup as the backlash against its introduction grows.

The International Football Association Board meets on Saturday to vote on a proposed change to the laws to enable video assistant referees to be used throughout the sport.

It is expected to rubber stamp an amendment which the chief architect of VAR, IFAB’s technical director and former Premier League referee David Elleray, told The Daily Telegraph would be “probably the most significant single change there has been” to the way football was played at the highest level.

But The Telegraph can reveal that not all voting members of IFAB – which consists of the home nations and Fifa – are convinced the time is right for it to formally endorse VAR following two years of trials that have been plagued by controversy, culminating in it being branded “a shambles” following Wednesday’s FA Cup replay between Tottenham Hotspur and Rochdale.

The Football Association of Wales was expected to be “one of the more conservative voices at the table” on Saturday. There are concerns that change is happening “very, very quickly” in defiance of “major issues” that are still to be overcome, according to one source.