With their constant desire to make football “better” I suspect the people that run the game have started to forget one golden rule – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
The latest – and apparently impending – change to the sport is going to come in the form of sin bins.
Football’s rule making body, IFAB, will be considering the introduction of sin bins during a meeting next month. And the word on the street is that they will be given the green light.
For those of you who don’t know what a sin bin is, it is basically a naughty step for footballers. Do something bad during a football match, but not bad enough to warrant a red card, and you will be sent to sit down and think about what you’ve done while watching all your friends having fun.
They have already been tested in some Uefa competitions, and the plan is, apparently, to introduce them at youth and amateur levels first before bringing them in at the top level in a couple of years.
No IFAB, please don’t!
Some people argue that the current system is flawed. A player can carry out a bad tackle in one game, get a yellow card and carry on playing. And then, only after he has accumulated several of them, does he get a ban. This means...
