FIFA has decided to introduce robo-refs to make offside calls by the 2022 World Cup.

Under the plan, being developed by Fifa director of technology Johannes Holzmuller, the offside “lines” would be automatically generated by computer technology.

Fifa staged the first trial of the technology used in the system during the Club World Cup won by Liverpool in December.

And now world chiefs want to roll it out swiftly, with the target of being able to use it full-time at the first winter World Cup.

German Holzmuller explained: “The idea behind the offside technique is to speed up the review of such game situations by the video assistant referee.

“Basically, it is about the video assistant no longer creating the lines for offside questions to determine a possible offside position.

“The principle is that the system creates the lines automatically and sounds an alarm if there is an offside position”