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IFAB are trialling blue cards for dissent and "cynical" fouls. Will be a ten minute sin bin. Not at the professional level to begin with but planning to go throughout the game.
Personally I like it, hopefully they extend to all unsportsmanlike conduct including obvious dives.
If this leads to less dissent and pressure on refs do you not think it might help with their standard if decision making though?
Was their pressure on the officials in the first 10 minutes of the Preston game? They just made bad decisions. I just see more and more games being decided by the whim of a referee.
They'll be more players cheating and trying to get other players sin-binned.
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Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 17:47 - Feb 8 with 2558 views
From the article - Two blue cards would result in a player's dismissal.
So why introduce the blue card in the first place? In an high profile match the ref will probably simply give out a yellow card as it’ll be the lesser of the two evils.
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Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 18:20 - Feb 8 with 2384 views
Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 18:22 - Feb 8 by MattinLondon
But the refs (in the main) are using the cards properly it’s just that in the modern game there is a lot more yellow cards than in the 70s and 80s.
So what is the purpose of this? To increase punishment, or avoid sending off players? Either way it changes things tactically. Complicates things. Gives refs another option to misapply. Will also lead to tedious passages of play where one side locks down and wastes time for ten minutes waiting for their player back.
If its unacceptable behaviour or foul, send them off. If its not, thats what a yellow is for.
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Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 18:32 - Feb 8 with 2319 views
Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 18:22 - Feb 8 by MattinLondon
But the refs (in the main) are using the cards properly it’s just that in the modern game there is a lot more yellow cards than in the 70s and 80s.
You had to basically kill someone to get a yellow in the 70s or even 80s. There's some old footage of Wimbledon (Crazy Gang era) playing Man Utd doing the rounds. Some of the tackles Vinnie Jones is putting in would see him get a straight red today. The ref doesn't even give him a yellow.
Personally, I would rather see every yellow card is 10 mins in the sin bin. Take a dive, 10 mins off, dissent towrds the ref, 10 mins off time wasting 10 mins off. Would change the game overnight
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Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 18:43 - Feb 8 with 2284 views
Blue Card = 10 minute sin bin on 18:32 - Feb 8 by blueasfook
You had to basically kill someone to get a yellow in the 70s or even 80s. There's some old footage of Wimbledon (Crazy Gang era) playing Man Utd doing the rounds. Some of the tackles Vinnie Jones is putting in would see him get a straight red today. The ref doesn't even give him a yellow.
It's a tragically bad idea. We're basically still trialling VAR and yet we want to add this into the mix.
It will just add more controversy. People will dispute whether the sin bin was justified and claim it affected the result. Who's going to time the ten minutes and make sure the player is bad on the pitch in time? What if there's no break in play? Referees struggle already, this is just another thing for them to worry about.
It will affect the quality of the game. Teams will play a low block for ten minutes to make sure they survive the time with one less player.
Will the sin bin apply across both halves if applied late in the first half?
If dissent is that bad enough the referee can send the player off. If it's not that bad, you accept that it's an emotional and high pressure sport, you yellow card the player and get on with it. Cyclical fouls are annoying but they've always been there. If you want to try and curb it, why not lower the threshold for totting up bans or say a cynical foul counts as double, for example.
Ultimately it will make football less like football, as if that hasn't started happening enough all ready. Also, why do we have to make the FA Cup, a competition people already feel is losing value, a guinea pig for this gimmick?
Imagine the time wasting when a team is down to 10.
And if each instance of it resulted in another player getting a blue card and 2 blues = a yellow EDIT just read that it is actually a red at that point, and a further blue = red, I am not sure it would happen for very long.
Problem is more that the officials don't seem to continue to enforce these measures. At the start of the season time wasting led to regular double figures time allowed at the end of matches. After a few weeks, the time wasting continued but the time allowed stopped. Madness.
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