Blue playing cards are set to be dropped from sin bin trials deliberate by soccer’s lawmakers. the PA information company understands.
The playing cards have been set to be unveiled as the tactic used to sign a short lived dismissal in trial protocols initially scheduled for publication on February 9, a transfer which might have marked the most important change in managing participant self-discipline within the skilled recreation because the introduction of purple and yellow playing cards for the 1970 World Cup.
Nevertheless, there was a largely damaging response when stories about blue playing cards surfaced on the eve of publication, and the Worldwide Soccer Affiliation Board, which units the sport’s legal guidelines, opted to delay publication of the protocol.
FIFA needs to make clear that stories of the so-called ‘blue card’ at elite ranges of soccer are incorrect and untimely.
Any such trials, if applied, ought to be restricted to testing in a accountable method at decrease ranges, a place that FIFA intends to reiterate when this…
— FIFA Media (@fifamedia) February 8, 2024
The playing cards at the moment are set to be scrapped following additional talks between IFAB’s administrators on the eve of the organisation’s annual common assembly in Loch Lomond, PA understands.
The trial itself has not been revoked, however it’s anticipated it’ll happen at a a lot decrease footballing stage than was anticipated by the unique February 9 protocol, which was set to encourage purposes from all however the very top-level competitions.
The Soccer Affiliation, one of many 5 our bodies which makes up the IFAB, was understood to have been fascinated by working a trial within the males’s and ladies’s FA Cups sooner or later, earlier than the furore round blue playing cards.
There may be additionally set to be additional talks on Saturday about whether or not any sin bin trial ought to embrace tactical fouls, in addition to dissent. Underneath the unique protocol, all gamers on the pitch, together with goalkeepers, will be briefly dismissed.
Sin bin trials have been one in every of 4 protocols set for publication final month earlier than the blue card story broke.
The IFAB can also be looking for to trial permitting referees the choice of making a ‘captain-only zone’ round them once they really feel threatened or intimidated, and a trial the place referees can ship groups to their respective penalty areas to chill off within the occasion of mass confrontations.
All of those, together with the sin bin protocols, are finally supposed to enhance participant behaviour at greater ranges, one thing FIFA president Gianni Infantino has mentioned is crucial to set the appropriate instance to younger gamers and guarantee folks nonetheless really feel protected, and inspired, to be referees.
One other trial that had been set for publication on February 9 involved how lengthy goalkeepers can deal with the ball, and the way play ought to restart once they maintain on too lengthy.
At present keepers can maintain on for six seconds and something over that’s alleged to be penalised with an oblique free-kick, however lawmakers are involved this isn’t being correctly enforced which is why a trial has been developed.
The administration of head accidents can also be on the AGM agenda.
The World Leagues Discussion board and world gamers’ union FIFPRO have once more written to the IFAB asking for permission to trial non permanent concussion substitutes, one thing which was once more rejected finally yr’s AGM in London.
