Sin bins are on course to be introduced in the FA Cup next season for offences such as tactical fouls or dissent. There has been a pilot scheme for sin bins in amateur and youth football and authorities have been trying to clamp down on dissent in the professional game this season. We’ve gone through the period of realising that taking players off the pitch at every available opportunity is not necessarily the way to create a good game. “Once you get into the habit of sanctioning teams by taking players off the field, it becomes a sanction you use over and over again. Yellow cards now are for multiple things and we’ve advanced it very quickly to red cards around head contact.

Source: Express February 06, 2024 19:02 UTC