Blue Cards Are Going To Be Added To Football Sin Bins — Reports
Blue cards are to be introduced in professional football as part of sin-bin trials to be announced on Friday.
The move will see players removed from the field for 10 minutes if they commit a cynical foul or show dissent towards a match official.
According to reports, the International Football Association Board announced that professional football will soon use the blue card as a part of sin-bin trials.
As a result, it will be the first new card color to be widely used in fifty years.
Football started using red and yellow cards in 1970.
English referee Ken Aston is said to have introduced it during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
Since then, football associations all over the world have embraced the use of red and yellow cards as a form of punishment for on-field misconduct by players.
Reports on Thursday state that the International Football Association Board will make the announcement on Friday. The development is a part of new rules that will cause players to be benched for ten minutes if they commit a cynical foul or act disrespectfully toward a match official.
With this change, player dismissals will take on a new dimension as players will be sent off if they receive two blue cards in a game or a combination of a blue and a yellow card.
Elite competitions may not initially take part in the testing phase, but trials at that level may start as early as the summer.
This suggests that FA Cup and Women's FA Cup matches might be part of the trials; the FA is reportedly thinking of offering to test the competitions for the upcoming season.
On a smaller scale, new cards have already been introduced throughout the continent; Portugal, for example, recently adopted new legislation to honor good sportsmanship.
This season, the Football Association of Wales intended to implement a sin-bin trial in grassroots competitions. The color blue was selected over others, such as orange, to make it easier to distinguish from a yellow or red card.
However, the FAW was unable to secure approval for the substitution, and players who were sent to the sin bin were instead given a yellow card.
Red is equal to two blues
The new protocol, which was unveiled on Friday, states that a player will be shown a red card if they receive two blue cards in a match, or a combination of yellow and blue, and restricts the use of the new card to fouls that stop a promising attack plus dissent.
Professional game elite trials may start as early as the summer, but top competitions won't be included in the initial testing if more protocol refinement is needed.
This could apply to the FA Cup and Women's FA Cup, as the Football Association is thinking of offering up the competitions for testing during the upcoming season.
However, sin-bins will not be utilized in the European Championship this summer or the Champions League the following season. Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin stated to Telegraph Sport last month that he was adamantly against them, adding that “it's not football anymore.”
However, if trials resulted in their inclusion in the game's rules, the European governing body might be compelled to implement them.
Rugby-style measurements In November, Ifab, whose board includes FA CEO Mark Bullingham, decided to test the rugby-style measure in premier leagues and other top competitions.
For many years, sin-bins have been effectively combating dissent at the grassroots and youth levels.
A worldwide trial of a different rugby union regulation, which would only permit team captains to confer with the match referee regarding a call, was also approved by Ifab.
Ifab leaders have issued dire warnings about player behavior and have accelerated the trials, stating that “this might be the cancer that kills football.”
It was decided at Ifab's annual business meeting that sin-bins were essential for putting a stop to this and any other foul that stopped a potentially explosive attack but did not warrant a red card.
Giorgio Chiellini, the defender from Italy, was given a yellow card for pulling the shirt of Bukayo Saka of England during the Euro 2020 final as an example during the meeting.
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