The International Football Association Board (IFAB) will publish the detailed protocols for sin-bin trials in professional football on Friday, with a provision for blue cards expected to be included.In the trials, referees will have the power to send players off for 10 minutes for dissent or cynical fouls.🚨 A blue card is to be introduced in football 🟦The new card will see players removed from the field for 10 minutes if they commit a cynical foul or show dissent, per The @Telegraph 👀 pic.twitter.com/bh6zcLFJAx— OneFootball (@OneFootball) February 8, 2024 Still, blue cards won’t be used at either EURO 2024 or in next season’s UEFA Champions League after the UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin revealed in January that he was completely opposed to them, saying: “It’s not football anymore.”One example of a blue card given during Thursday’s IFAB meeting was from the EURO 2020 final. Italy centre-back Giorgio Chiellini’s shirt pulled on England forward Bukayo Saka, which only resulted in a yellow card.##NAJAVA_MECA_7855729##Board member Mark Bullingham, the chief executive of the Football Association, said:”I think the frustration for fans watching games when they see a promising counter-attack that’s ruined by that and the question of whether a yellow card is sufficient for that has led to us looking at whether that should be involved in the protocol as well.”The starting point was looking at player behaviour and dissent – we’re then looking at whether we should extend it into other areas, such as tactical fouls, as well.”There have already been trials in amateur and youth football in both England and Wales.
