Football hates change. Managers, past and present, are up in arms about the possibility of blue cards and sin- bins.
This is basically for dissent and dangerous fouls.
It probably will not happen with FIFA ruling that pilot schemes will only be run at grassroots level.
However, stay tuned. The same was said about VAR but it eventually arrived.
It set me thinking. Call me a dinosaur but I recall three issues from recent years.
Managers calling for video technology when they did not like the referee’s decision against them. When it finally arrives, many now want it to be dropped.
Sure, it makes mistakes but not as many as their players who they refuse to blame in public for reasons I do understand. But they always use the ref as a deflection.
And it nearly always the manager who has not won the game! Actually, VAR nearly always gets it right and justice is done.
It will be quicker and better in time. It is not going to disappear.
Then I recall even more years ago some managers asking for sin-bins rather than red cards because the latter ruin the game! Now the thought of a blue card and sin-bin, according to Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou, would ruin the game.
The answer to all this is more........