Next season's FA Cup could feature player sin bins for dissent or tactical fouls.
It would give referees the freedom to send a player off the pitch for 10 minutes, giving their team a temporary numerical disadvantage.
Football's rule-makers, the International Football Association Board [IFAB], are expected to rubber-stamp trials for sin bins in professional football at its annual meeting next month.
According to The Times, the Football Association will consider trialling them in the FA Cup and Women's FA Cup next season.
They would act as a disincentive to argue with officials or commit cynical fouls and follow a successful pilot in amateur and youth football in England and Wales.
IFAB is expected to green light an extended trial at higher levels of the football pyramid and it would be up to the governing bodies to decide which competitions introduce sin bins.
One example of a good use of the sin bin was seen in then Euro 2020 final when Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini pulled the shirt of England's Bukayo Saka and only received a yellow card.
Under the new rules, Chiellini could have been forced to spend 10 minutes on the touchline, reducing Italy to 10 men against England's 11.
FIFA referees' chief Pierluigi Collina has backed the idea of sin bins, saying: 'The idea is to start working on this as soon as possible to provide those who would be involved in the trial a protocol to be used. The idea is to get it soon.
'The trial was very successful in grassroots competitions. Now we are talking of a higher level, very probably professional or even high professional football.'
Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham confirmed their interest in using sin bins back in November.
'When we were looking at sin bins - protocol clearly has to be developed - the areas we were looking at were dissent, where it's worked very, very well in the grassroots game in England,' he said.
'We've also spoken about other areas, particularly tactical fouls. I think frustration for fans watching games when they see a promising counter-attack that's ruined by that and the question of whether a yellow card is sufficient for that has led to us looking at whether that should be involved in the protocol as well.
'The starting point was looking at player behaviour and dissent - we're then looking at whether we should extend it into other areas, such as tactical fouls, as well.'
mauabdnor
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U will thank Boehly later
Miucdlpsz
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so what is the use of the yellow card ? should be Sin bin plus card.
OK,sounds a very good plan then.thanks for clearing this.
zasadiprty
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so what is the use of the yellow card ? should be Sin bin plus card.
of course is an additional. It's stated up there very well that they asked whether just a yellow card is enough? and is why they came up with this
zasadiprty
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With the new rules i don’t think football will be fun anymore, they are killing the game. Why not go for a way to solve the referee bad decision sometimes..
as a chelsea fan you still have strength
GunnArs
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i like the sin bin idea but just for players who force the referee to stop the game because they stay on the ground (and get some attention). pretty sure most of the players would get up in time and walk the pain off, the ones really injured could and would take a break of 5-10 minutes.
WaleedAbdullah25
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Nah . the other team can have severe disadvantage ... if 2 or 3 players are sent for SIN BINS .. rubbish
yeah at amateur level its okay. but we r talking about professional . i dont think this will be a good idea. its like hockey yellow green and red card. green card is for time out of the player like such.. but therr i vast difference b/w hockey and football
Miucdlpsz
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so what is the use of the yellow card ? should be Sin bin plus card.
Sammist82
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With this no more red cards
AjumobiSizzle
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With the new rules i don’t think football will be fun anymore, they are killing the game. Why not go for a way to solve the referee bad decision sometimes..
Kesadlor
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half time is longer than sin bin time?
Rusabiklr
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not good at all.
jusilmopry
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The one player who should be send out is that one whose tackle results in a player needing treatment off field. The guilty player must join the injured one outside toll the treatment is done or a sub is made. At present they gain unfair advantage for rough play
SimpleSoccerFan
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More power to these bad referres, smfh...where is the sin bin for when a ref repeatedly makes bad calls?
Jicbceknst
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Nah . the other team can have severe disadvantage ... if 2 or 3 players are sent for SIN BINS .. rubbish
in the netherlands in amateur level it is used pretty often and it actually never ends up with more than 1 player sin bin
festy111
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this one choke ahbeg na pure rubbish
WaleedAbdullah25
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Nah . the other team can have severe disadvantage ... if 2 or 3 players are sent for SIN BINS .. rubbish