They've arrived. Robots are now being introduced in football, and Chelsea will be the first Premier League club to trial the latest technology in football at the Club World Cup.
Technically speaking, there won't be any robots roaming around on the pitch, so don't worry about Mike Dean becoming redundant to the person having to oil the machine or a slide tackled that sees a metallic arm and leg flying.
Although the whole point of the new tech is to track limbs. The technology is a 'limb tracking' system that will make automatic offside decisions.
