00:00Yeah, so promised myself I was going to be sort of dead calm and composed and impartial
00:06about this but the breaking news today from the Telegraph here in merry old England is
00:12that they're going to bring in blue cards in football. That is a thing that's going
00:17to happen, it is a thing you are going to see. Yes, according to Telegraph Sport IFAB
00:22which is the International Federation about boobies? No. International Football Association
00:30Board have signed off on what would be the first rule to bring a new card into football
00:35since the 1970s. And that is blue cards, the sin bin cards in football. It will be issued
00:43for dissent or for cynical fouls, anything basically that brings the game into disrepute.
00:51And if you are to receive a blue card then you are forced to leave the field for 10 minutes.
00:56You are allowed to then come back on but you have to go off for that period of time. The
01:01full details of how exactly it's going to work aren't available yet but it will sort
01:05of go something like this. If you routinely speak back to the referee which you're not
01:09supposed to and you get a yellow card for, you now get a blue card which means you have
01:13to go off the pitch for 10 minutes. And if a promising attack is developing and you side
01:18somebody down or you pull them back again for which you would currently get a yellow
01:22card, you'll be shown a blue one instead and you'll have to leave the pitch. They've also
01:26said as well that just like yellow cards if you get two blue cards you get a red so you
01:31get sent off. Well I don't really, how does, if you get a second blue you get a 10 minute
01:36sin bin and then you're just not allowed to come back. A red card does that anyway. Also
01:41you can mix them up so if you get a yellow and then you get a blue then you're off or
01:45if you've already had a blue and you get a yellow then you're off. It's so stupid isn't
01:51it. And if I'm honest I'm not really sure where to start on this. My gut reaction is
01:56that I absolutely hate this rule. And it isn't just because I find the concept of sin bins
02:01just like really, I don't know, small time and just pointless. That's by the by. You
02:08should just be allowed to do cynical fouls. Like I know that sounds bad but they are part
02:14of the game. Like maybe the dissent side of it, I can kind of get on board with 10
02:18minutes, that's just a huge chunk of a game of football seems way excessive to me. But
02:23this obsession that the game has at the minute of cutting down all elements of gamesmanship,
02:29of keeping it noble and honest and true, that's not the game we love. If you really hate shithousing
02:35that much then go and watch cricket, go for a walk. Like one of the best things about
02:39football is the professional levels of bastardry it has. Anyway sorry I'll put my head back
02:44on. This is happening because they've been trialling them in the very, very lower leagues
02:48of football across Europe and have decided that they have been a success. They've been
02:53used in grassroots football in Wales for example and now IFAB, who despite the fact they don't
02:58have a tournament or a video game series named after them, do kind of control the whole world
03:03of football, have decided that they are going to go ahead with them. Now as for the when
03:08that will happen, that's the one thing that's kind of a little bit unclear at the minute.
03:11They have said they're going to be beginning elite trials as soon as this summer which
03:15will see it tested at the very top level of the professional game. But the very top tier
03:19competitions across the world are going to be excluded from that initial testing phase
03:24in case and I quote, protocols require further refinement. And oh that's weird, I don't know
03:30about you but I can't think of any major rule change they've brought in football in the
03:36last couple of years which definitely needed a lot of work and should not have been forced
03:43on the Premier League as soon as it was. Anyway, even worse news if you're in the United Kingdom,
03:48the Premier League will almost certainly be at the very cutting edge of all of these trials
03:53because it was the FA in England that actually pushed towards this being trialled in the
03:58first place. The report in the Telegraph does suggest that both the FA Cup and the Women's
04:02FA Cup could be put forward as potential testing grounds for this at the very top level
04:07and what do you expect when football in this country is largely run by the sort of Range
04:13Rover driving, jeans and shoe wearing rugby fans who find Sinbin's entertaining in the
04:19first place. Mercifully though, they are absolutely not going to get used in the upcoming European
04:24Championships because UEFA President Alexander Seferin has said he is completely opposed
04:28to them and it's not football. If you're watching mate, that's a firm handshake from
04:35me to you. There you go, figure that out. I am going to be down in the comment section
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05:22Anyway that's it, blue cards, they're happening, they are happening, they are absolutely happening,
05:27you are going to see them in a game of football you are otherwise enjoying, goodbye.
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