Plan to introduce blue playing cards ‘is at risk of being SCRAPPED’

Plans to introduce a trial of blue playing cards into soccer are at risk of being scrapped following a backlash in opposition to the proposals, in response to studies. 

In February, soccer followers had been left baffled by the information that the brand new card could be trialled to sin-bin gamers responsible of minor offences for ten minutes – with supporters claiming the brand new rule change would damage the sport. 

An introduction of the cardboard could be the primary new card in soccer in additional than half a century, with yellow and purple playing cards being launched in 1970 and working to the current day. 

Now, the preliminary proposals from the International Football Association Board (IFAB) have been placed on the back-burner following the rising opposition to the the concept.

According to The Telegraph, administrators of IFAB usually are not satisfied such a card could be required throughout trials of the rugby-style disciplinary technique.

Plans to introduce a trial of blue playing cards into soccer are at risk of being scrapped

Blue playing cards would have resulted in a ten-minute sin-bin for fouls that forestall a promising assault

The outlet additional declare that members of IFAB’s board, which embody the chief executives of the 4 dwelling associations and FIFA, had been unaware {that a} blue card would kind a part of the protocols drawn up by the law-making physique’s administration. 

Their annual normal assembly, which is about to happen on Saturday, will likely be their first alternative to debate a proposal designed to make it clear when a participant has been sin-binned. 

Last month, an official announcement had been deliberate, however as a substitute the choice was placed on maintain, with the rule-change set to be debated on the AGM. 

Mail Sport beforehand reported how supporters had been up in arms over the concept, with some saying the sport was ‘completed’ – whereas pundits like Paul Merson claimed it could make soccer ‘boring’. 

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou, Everton‘s Sean Dyche, and Crystal Palace‘s Roy Hodgson are among the many Premier League managers to have beforehand voiced their opposition to ‘blue playing cards’.

Further division on the idea was seen in UEFA too – with UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin declaring he wouldn’t enable a trial within the European Championship, Champions League, Europa League or Europa Conference League.  

Fans and pundits raged at proposals, which detailed {that a} purple card must be proven if a participant acquired two blues or a mixture of a blue and yellow 

Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou led the revolt in opposition to the blue-card thought, final month

Plans for a blue card would see 10-minute sin-bins trialled throughout video games — in what could be the primary new card added to the skilled sport since yellows and reds had been introduced in for the 1970 World Cup.

The initiative was set to see gamers despatched to a 10-minute sin-bin for cynical fouls and exhibiting dissent in direction of officers, in a rule much like yellow playing cards being proven in rugby.  

Receiving a blue and a yellow, or two blues, would have the identical end result as two yellows, and see gamers despatched off. 

Despite the vast majority of followers, managers and soccer chiefs disagreeing with the concept, there was some optimistic reception to the blue playing cards idea.

FIFA referees’ chief Pierluigi Collina backed the concept of sin bins, saying: ‘The thought is to begin engaged on this as quickly as potential to supply those that could be concerned within the trial a protocol for use. The thought is to get it quickly.

Despite main backlash, there have been some who discovered the positives within the blue card idea 

‘The trial was very profitable in grassroots competitions. Now we’re speaking of a better stage, very in all probability skilled and even excessive skilled soccer.’

Football Association chief govt Mark Bullingham confirmed their curiosity in utilizing sin bins again in November.

‘When we had been taking a look at sin bins – protocol clearly must be developed – the areas we had been taking a look at had been dissent, the place it is labored very, very properly within the grassroots sport in England,’ he stated.

The introduction of latest playing cards has already taken place on a smaller scale on the continent, with Portugal lately adopting a brand new measure to recognise good sportsmanship.