IFAB are introducing a "Blue Card" to top-level football and could begin elite trials as early as this summer. In an attempt to curb what they perceive as 'cheating', referees will now have the power to temporarily send players off.
But how will this work in practice, when could we see it in the Premier League, and would this even work in the first place? FourFourTwo's Adam Clery takes a minute to compose himself, and explains.
But how will this work in practice, when could we see it in the Premier League, and would this even work in the first place? FourFourTwo's Adam Clery takes a minute to compose himself, and explains.
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00:00Yeah so promised myself I was going to be sort of dead calm and composed and impartial about this
00:07but the breaking news today from the Telegraph here in merry old England is that they're going
00:13to bring in blue cards in football. That is a thing that's going to happen. It is a thing you
00:19are going to see. Yes according to Telegraph Sport iFab which is the international federation
00:25about boobies? No. International Football Association Board have signed off on what
00:32would be the first rule to bring a new card into football since the 1970s and that is blue cards
00:39the sin bin card in football. It will be issued for dissent or for cynical fouls anything basically
00:47that brings the game into disrepute and if you are to receive a blue card then you are forced to leave
00:54the field for 10 minutes. You are allowed to then come back on but you have to go off for that period
01:00of time. The full details of how exactly it's going to work aren't available yet but it'll sort of go
01:05something like this. If you routinely speak back to the referee which you're not supposed to and you
01:10get a yellow card for you now get a blue card which means you have to go off the pitch for 10 minutes
01:15and if a promising attack is developing and you side somebody down or you pull them back again for
01:20which you would currently get a yellow card you'll be showing a blue one instead and you'll have to
01:25leave the pitch. They've also said as well that just like yellow cards if you get two blue cards you get
01:30a red so you get sent off. Well I don't really how does if you get a second blue you get a 10 minute
01:36sim bin and then you're just not allowed to come back. A red card does that anyway. Also you can mix
01:42them up so if you get a yellow and then you get a blue then you're off or if you've already had a blue
01:46and you get a yellow then you're off. It's so stupid isn't it? And if I'm honest I'm not really
01:53sure where to start on this. My gut reaction is that I absolutely hate this rule and it isn't just
01:59because I find the concept of sin bins just like really I don't know small time and just pointless
02:06that's that's by the by you should just be allowed to do cynical fouls like I know that sounds bad but
02:13they are part of the game. Like maybe the descent side of it I can kind of get on board with for 10
02:18minutes that's just a huge chunk of a game of football seems way excessive to me but this
02:23obsession that the game has at the minute of cutting down all elements of gamesmanship of keeping it
02:30noble and honest and true that's that's not the game we love. If you really hate shithousing that much
02:35then go and watch cricket go for a walk like one of the best things about football is the professional
02:41levels of bastardry it has. Anyway sorry I'll put my head back on this is happening because they've
02:46been trialing them in the very very lower leagues of football across Europe and have decided that
02:51they have been a success. They've been used in grassroots football in Wales for example and now
02:56IFAB who despite the fact they like don't have a tournament or a video game series named after them
03:01do kind of control the whole world of football have decided that they are going to go ahead with
03:07them. Now as for the when that will happen that's the one thing that's kind of a little bit
03:10unclear at the minute. They have said they're going to be beginning elite trials as soon as this
03:14summer which will see it tested at the very top level of the professional game but the very top
03:19tier competitions across the world are going to be excluded from that initial testing phase
03:23in case and I quote protocols require further refinement. And oh that's weird I don't know about
03:30you but I can't think of any major rule change they've brought in football in the last couple of
03:37years which definitely needed a lot of work and should not have been forced on the Premier League
03:44as soon as it was. Anyway even worse news if you're in the United Kingdom the Premier League will almost
03:50certainly be at the very cutting edge of all of these trials because it was the FA in England that
03:55actually pushed towards this being trialed in the first place. The report in the Telegraph does
04:00suggest that both the FA Cup and the Women's FA Cup could be put forward as potential testing grounds
04:05for this at the very top level and what do you expect when football in this country is largely
04:12run by the sort of Range Rover driving jeans and shoe wearing rugby fans who find sin bins entertaining
04:19in the first place. Mercifully though they are absolutely not going to get used in the upcoming
04:23European Championships because UEFA President Alexander Seferin has said he is completely opposed to them
04:29and it's not football. If you're watching mate that's a firm handshake from me to you.
04:35There you go figure that out I am going to be down in the comment section of this video because I would
04:39dearly like to take the pulse of the footballing world and specifically the 442 audience on their
04:45feelings to this and if you are not already part of the 442 audience why not press the subscribe
04:48button. We don't just explain tactics and stuff we like to explain all the really mad shit that
04:54happens in football. If you think you're too good for the comment section though and you would like
04:57to send me your opinion directly you can get me on twitter at Adam Cleary C-L-E-R-Y and the 442
05:02socials there in the corner of the video for the whole time if you haven't noticed them already
05:06how not? Latest issue of the magazine that's kind of what we do here Alex Ferguson is on the cover
05:11plus Venables, Palestine, Robbie Savage, AFCON and Trent whatever that means so go spend all your pocket
05:18immediately before they kill football forever. Anyway that's it blue cards they're happening
05:25they are happening they are absolutely happening you are going to see them in a game of football
05:29you otherwise enjoying goodbye.