There will be no blue cards shown in soccer, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Saturday ahead of the annual meeting of the sport’s rule-making panel. “Let me be clear — it’s a red card to the idea of ‘blue’ cards,” Infantino told reporters in a video clip posted overnight on his Instagram account. The IFAB panel said in extending sin …
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Football’s law making body is planning on running trials in professional sport to introduce sin bins. Football’s lawmaking body, the International Football Association Board, has recommended the trialling of sin bins in professional game. IFAB board member Mark Bullingham, the chief executive of the English Football Association, said: “When we were looking at sin bins – protocol clearly has to …
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