[Football] New blue card and 10 mins in sin-bin

Audax said:

Pick those who didn't read the article before commenting... .

1. They are talking about properly introducing and enforcing that only the captain can talk to the Ref. Not to mention that one of the specific areas the blue card is for is ... enforcing the showing of proper respect for the ref.

2. The article addresses this. To make sure it is easily distinguishable from the red and yellow. Orange was deemed too likely to cause confusion.

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Audax said:

Same things it is for today, with the exception of the very specific areas where the blue card is introduced. To give examples, Dunk's straight red for being verbal with a Ref might have been "only" a blue if this new rule existed. The other area blues are being suggested is for deliberate fouls designed to stop a breakaway. Except where it's last-man and a red is mandated, what we often see today is a defender "taking a yellow for the team" cynically and deliberately fouling in order to stop a break. Blue's would be used in these situations.



Would expect the same rules as for reds to apply here.



Doubt it. The article was clear that a blue counts as a yellow as well. Accumulating a blue + a yellow = a red.



Not sure you've read enough then. It looks to me like they're taking a pretty sensible approach with this. Devil is in the detail, of course, but from the article that was posted I don't see anything that screams "poorly thought through".

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el punal said:

Accumulating a blue + a yellow = a green. Shirley?

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Giraffe said:

If it comes in it will be just another thing for refs to get wrong and be beaten by. What happens when they think it’s a blue card challenge but two mins later VAR decides it wasn’t. Are we going to have to wait for that on this as well?

Take me back to football pre VAR please. They seem determined to wreck the game.

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wealdgull said:

There needs to be something to stop those "tactical" fouls when a player pulls back someone on a break, so good. A yellow is not enough.

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HillBarnTillIDie said:

Ridiculous.

Whats the yellow card for then?? How many blue cards can be issued at any one time??

Could it become a tactical part of play to entice players on the opposing side to be sin binned?

Will it slow the games down even more?? Extra time being even longer..

From what i've read, poorly thought through in my opinion.

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chaileyjem said:

They've done trials and experiments at grassroots and lower league level for many years with this. So its certainly thoroughly tested / and all those issues have been knocked around by refs and leagues in the trials.

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dstanman said:

So if a player gets a blue and yellow card in same game does the 2nd offence become a red?

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American Seagle said:

This does nothing to correct the biggest problem in soccer which is the standard of officiating. Any new rules or technology, no matter how good, will be implemented poorly if the standard of officiating is not drastically improved.
That should be the number one focus, not new rules.

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Titanic said:

Simple answer... you are denying a goalscoring opportunity... so book the player, and then give the free kick from wherever (outside the box) the attacking team want to take it.

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Weststander said:

The next thing (Emery and Silva will separately be working on it already), will be to minimise open play during the 10 minutes affecting them.

I hope the other officials stop the 10 minute clock during breaks in play.

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