It looks like we may soon be seeing these introduced into at least The FA Cup.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/08/blue-cards-and-sin-bins-could-be-introduced-to-football-under-ifab-plans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_OtherI’ve always liked the idea of Sin Bins but like VAR I don’t understand the way it’s going to be used.
Why introduce blue cards if two blues = a red? Why not just say that a yellow card means a visit to the Sin Bin? Why not keep yellow cards and make blue cards without a limit for any one player? Surely referees will be reluctant to give a second blue card just as they are now with a second yellow.
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Teams A & B are fighting for survival, penultimate game of the season team A are playing team C. Team C's star striker Smith is cautioned for a cynical foul, taking him over the limit so he is banned for their next game, which happens to be against team B. So Team B face a weakened team C in the last game - due to Smith's ban - all because of a transgression against team A, who gained zero advantage from his yellow card. If he had been sin binned instead, team A would have had the advantage for an offense committed against them rather than their relegation rivals, team B.
I have always thought that a yellow card was not enough of a deterrent.
I suppose a blue card keeps the crowd instantly informed of the decision.
In rugby, a sin bin is used when a player transgresses and is required to leave the field for ten minutes' worth of playing time. The match continues, but the clock only ticks down while the ball is in play - at the instruction of the referee. So, if a player is injured, he stops the clock; and the player's sin bin time is stopped. It only continues when the referee calls "time on".
So, with IFAB's latest gimmick, the team with the depleted number of players is incentivised to dawdle, delay and run down the clock by doing anything other than actually playing football. If your team loses a player for ten minutes, are you going to go hell for leather to score while he or she is off? Or are you going to feign injuries that require treatment, with the clock running down on the player's sin bin time (while knowing that the time will be added on at the end of the half, when the player is off the field)?
Here's an exaggerated example, to make the point. A player is blue-carded after 80 minutes. He should expect not to have any further impact on the game. But, lo and behold, his team-mates suddenly fall foul of debilitating, temporary injuries. Five times, the ref stops the game, each time for two minutes while the player is treated. The blue carded player is allowed back on; the referee adds ten minutes additional time. For the sake of IFAB's new "rule", we get to see ten minutes of am-dram, followed by ten minutes of 11 v 11; and an unpunished transgressor.
He probably would still score.
It's getting beyond a joke now
Or how about goals that increase / decrease in size randomly!
Or " Introduce the Lion" that should ruffle up the defenses!
Or if you are caught diving you have to wear one of those old fashioned diving suits with the air hose.
Do you not think it is fairer for the team sinned against to get the advantage right away, rather than another team a week later? If not, why not?
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