The yellow and red card are about to welcome a new member with the blue card set to be introduced in football.
What is the blue card?
The blue card is apart of the sin-bin trail which is a new rule that hopes to tackle dissent made by players towards referees. Any player who receives a blue card will have to exit the pitch for 10 minutes.
The blue card will also be used if a player commits a cynical foul that stops a promising counter attack. If a player gets two blue cards, then they will get a red card and will leave the pitch.
The International Football Association Board (Ifab), have signed off on this new rule. There has yet to be a date announced on when the card will be introduced.
Sin-bins will not be used in this summer’s European Championship or next season’s Champions League after the president of Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, told The Telegraph he was completely opposed to the idea, adding: “It’s not football anymore.”
Trials
Top-tier competitions, such as the Premier League, will be excluded from initial testing in the professional game in case the protocols require further refinement.
However trials could begin in the FA Cup and Women’s FA Cup, with the Football Association considering volunteering for next season.
The trials have been fast-tracked amid dire warnings from Ifab’s leaders about player behaviour, of which they said: “This might be the cancer that kills football.”
Reaction
Mark Goldbridge’s tweet regarding the matter has caused some discussion. He thinks that referees are unsure of the current rules so bringing in a blue card wouldn’t be a smart move.
Blue card to be trialled in between yellow and red card in football. God help up. They can’t even get their heads around what’s a yellow and red…..Why are people obsessed with fixing things that aren’t broken
— Mark Goldbridge (@markgoldbridge) February 8, 2024
A user commented beneath that they should just charge players 10% of their wages which would stop the issue of dissent.
Another argued that this will likely benefit the top teams more as they have better squad depth. Managers would make substitutions instead of playing with 10 men for 10 minutes.
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