00:00Yeah so promised myself I was going to be sort of dead calm and composed and impartial about this
00:07but the breaking news today from the Telegraph here in merry old England is that they're going
00:13to bring in blue cards in football. That is a thing that's going to happen. It is a thing you
00:19are going to see. Yes according to Telegraph Sport iFab which is the international federation
00:25about boobies? No. International Football Association Board have signed off on what
00:32would be the first rule to bring a new card into football since the 1970s and that is blue cards
00:39the sin bin card in football. It will be issued for dissent or for cynical fouls anything basically
00:47that brings the game into disrepute and if you are to receive a blue card then you are forced to leave
00:54the field for 10 minutes. You are allowed to then come back on but you have to go off for that period
01:00of time. The full details of how exactly it's going to work aren't available yet but it'll sort of go
01:05something like this. If you routinely speak back to the referee which you're not supposed to and you
01:10get a yellow card for you now get a blue card which means you have to go off the pitch for 10 minutes
01:15and if a promising attack is developing and you side somebody down or you pull them back again for
01:20which you would currently get a yellow card you'll be showing a blue one instead and you'll have to
01:25leave the pitch. They've also said as well that just like yellow cards if you get two blue cards you get
01:30a red so you get sent off. Well I don't really how does if you get a second blue you get a 10 minute
01:36sim bin and then you're just not allowed to come back. A red card does that anyway. Also you can mix
01:42them up so if you get a yellow and then you get a blue then you're off or if you've already had a blue
01:46and you get a yellow then you're off. It's so stupid isn't it? And if I'm honest I'm not really
01:53sure where to start on this. My gut reaction is that I absolutely hate this rule and it isn't just
01:59because I find the concept of sin bins just like really I don't know small time and just pointless
02:06that's that's by the by you should just be allowed to do cynical fouls like I know that sounds bad but
02:13they are part of the game. Like maybe the descent side of it I can kind of get on board with for 10
02:18minutes that's just a huge chunk of a game of football seems way excessive to me but this
02:23obsession that the game has at the minute of cutting down all elements of gamesmanship of keeping it
02:30noble and honest and true that's that's not the game we love. If you really hate shithousing that much
02:35then go and watch cricket go for a walk like one of the best things about football is the professional
02:41levels of bastardry it has. Anyway sorry I'll put my head back on this is happening because they've
02:46been trialing them in the very very lower leagues of football across Europe and have decided that
02:51they have been a success. They've been used in grassroots football in Wales for example and now
02:56IFAB who despite the fact they like don't have a tournament or a video game series named after them
03:01do kind of control the whole world of football have decided that they are going to go ahead with
03:07them. Now as for the when that will happen that's the one thing that's kind of a little bit
03:10unclear at the minute. They have said they're going to be beginning elite trials as soon as this
03:14summer which will see it tested at the very top level of the professional game but the very top
03:19tier competitions across the world are going to be excluded from that initial testing phase
03:23in case and I quote protocols require further refinement. And oh that's weird I don't know about
03:30you but I can't think of any major rule change they've brought in football in the last couple of
03:37years which definitely needed a lot of work and should not have been forced on the Premier League
03:44as soon as it was. Anyway even worse news if you're in the United Kingdom the Premier League will almost
03:50certainly be at the very cutting edge of all of these trials because it was the FA in England that
03:55actually pushed towards this being trialed in the first place. The report in the Telegraph does
04:00suggest that both the FA Cup and the Women's FA Cup could be put forward as potential testing grounds
04:05for this at the very top level and what do you expect when football in this country is largely
04:12run by the sort of Range Rover driving jeans and shoe wearing rugby fans who find sin bins entertaining
04:19in the first place. Mercifully though they are absolutely not going to get used in the upcoming
04:23European Championships because UEFA President Alexander Seferin has said he is completely opposed to them
04:29and it's not football. If you're watching mate that's a firm handshake from me to you.
04:35There you go figure that out I am going to be down in the comment section of this video because I would
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05:11plus Venables, Palestine, Robbie Savage, AFCON and Trent whatever that means so go spend all your pocket
05:18immediately before they kill football forever. Anyway that's it blue cards they're happening
05:25they are happening they are absolutely happening you are going to see them in a game of football
05:29you otherwise enjoying goodbye.
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