Blue cards and sin bins is set to be Introduced into professional football. The idea of sin bins in football has moved a step closer to reality, with it being reported that the International Football Association Board [IFAB] is planning to make an announcement to trial sin bins in the professional game.
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It is also being reported that officials would carry a blue card to signify a player had been sent to the sin bin. A spell of 10 minutes in the sin-bin would follow a blue card.
Football’s lawmakers are reportedly on the brink of a shakeup of the game that would see sin bins introduced.
The International Football Association Board [IFAB] has been working on plans for changes to the game, And hopefully this new development will be unveiled on Friday.
What is does the Blue card account for?
Officials will carry blue cards which if brandished would result in a spell of 10 minutes in the sin bin.
Offences such as dissent and cynical fouls would see players sent to the sin bin.
It is expected that IFAB will give the green light for the trials at its annual meeting in March.
IFAB has been looking at ways of improving player behaviour, while also seeking to find a balance for incidents that do not match the threshold for a red card but warrant more than a yellow card.
Should the blue card be introduced, it would be the first change to on-field punishments since red and yellow cards were introduced at the 1970 World Cup.
The blue cards would give the referees the power to send players off for 10 minutes for dissent or cynical fouls; the FA will consider trialling sin bins in the FA Cup and Women’s FA Cup next season.
Two blue cards would result in the player being dismissee for the rest of the match, as would a blue and a yellow card.
Would FIFA buy the Idea of introducing the Blue card?
There have already been trials in amateur and youth football in both England and Wales and through the results it yielded, sport’s lawmaking body have agreed in November last year that it should be implemented at higher levels of football.
Board members had also supported a proposed trial whereby only the team captain may approach the referee in certain major game situations.
However, FIFA called blue cards in elite football “premature” and said “any trials, if implemented, should be limited to testing in a responsible manner at lower levels”.
However, sin bins will not be used at either this summer’s European championship in Germany, or in next season’s Uefa Champions League after Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin revealed in January that he was completely opposed to them, saying: “It’s not football anymore.”
One example given of a blue card during Thursday’s IFAB meeting was from the Euro 2020 final Italy centre-back Giorgio Chiellini’s shirt pull on England forward Bukayo Saka which only resulted in a yellow card.
What is a Blue card in football?
A blue card is to be introduced in football as part of a sin-bin trial.
Players shown a blue card would have to leave the field for 10 minutes, as part of an effort to crack down on dissent and blatant tactical fouls.
A player shown two blue cards or a blue and a yellow card would be sent off, trial protocols on sin-bins, plus other measures to combat poor player behaviour, were expected to be published by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the game’s lawmaking body, on February 9, but have been delayed.
IFAB has been looking at ways of improving player behaviour on the pitch, while also seeking to find a balance for incidents that do not match the threshold for a red card but warrant more than a yellow card.
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