A new phenomenon has sprung up at high-profile matches in recent months — that of fans transmitting games live from the stadium via their smartphones on to the Twitter-owned Periscope platform.

One Manchester City fan covered the entire FA Cup match away to Crystal Palace on Saturday via Periscope and pulled in an astonishing 139,300 viewers.

Josh Chambers, 23, who works for Surrey Council, said: “I mainly did it for my dad because he couldn’t make it to the game so I thought I would try Periscope and see how it worked as the game was televised. I also thought there would be other people trying to watch the game as well.

“I wasn’t going to do the whole game but so many people started