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Football's law-making body has agreed to re-examine the issue of goal-line technology amid increasing calls for it within the game.
Made up of members from FIFA and the four British home associations, the International FA Board's business meeting in Wales on Wednesday agreed to look again at the issue just seven months after ruling it out.
The move comes after the issue was highlighted at this summer's World Cup when Frank Lampard's 'goal' against Germany was not given.
An IFAB statement said: "The technology would apply solely to the goal line, and only to determine whether a goal has been scored or not.
"The system must be accurate; the indication of whether a goal has been scored must be immediate and automatically confirmed within one second; the indication of whether a goal has been scored will only be communicated to the match officials."
A deadline of the end of next month has been set for companies to make a first presentation of their technologies to Fifa.
A testing period will then take place with a number of companies to determine the accuracy of each system and this will be reported back to the IFAB annual general meeting on 5th March.