Video technology will be used in football for the first time after the game’s rule-makers yesterday approved live trials that could incorporate next season’s FA Cup.

As revealed by The Daily Telegraph in January, the International Football Association Board formally sanctioned worldwide experiments to settle the debate about whether video referrals would improve the game.

“We have taken a historic decision for football,” said new Fifa president Gianni Infantino after the IFAB annual general meeting in Cardiff.