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IFAB Green Lights Blue Cards

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew break down reports that IFAB are set to trial blue cards for 10-minute sin bins in football. Craig Burley and Jan Aage Fjortoft slam the idea while Frank Leboeuf explains why he thinks getting rid of yellow cards might be the answer. Plus, the guys preview this weekends top of the table clashes in Spain & Germany while Colin Udoh joins the show to look ahead to AFCON's final on Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome in the latest edition of ESPANSC. I'm Dan Thomas.

0:07.4

Joined by just me and you today Craig. What a treat here in the studio and it

0:12.1

looked like it was going to be quite a slow day but then good old I-fab

0:15.2

thought let's throw in a blue card for a Thursday and see what we can get out of it.

0:20.3

This is the new proposal which is set to come out tomorrow.

0:25.0

Top-tier competition excluded from initial.

0:27.0

So there's going to be initial testing first at lower leagues.

0:30.0

But here's the basis of it.

0:32.0

Fowls that prevent a promising attack,

0:34.3

all descent will result in a blue card

0:37.1

which you'll see that player removed

0:38.7

from the pitch for 10 minutes.

0:40.7

If you receive two blue cards for a combination of a yellow and a blue, you'll be getting a red card.

0:47.0

FIFA have come out and said, calm down. This is going to happen anytime soon.

0:51.0

It's going to be tested at much lower league levels before we go anywhere

0:54.7

near contemplating is going to happen, but we may as well discuss it.

0:57.6

Yann is here.

0:58.6

Frank as well. Craig, you like this idea.

1:00.6

We may as well discuss it because it's getting quite a few of us a little angry with these

1:08.7

muppets that run the game because we're in a scenario where it's already difficult enough for the officials

1:15.4

they can't even implement the yellow and red cards properly. Right.

1:19.3

Without most folks at home are watching in the stadium frothing at the mouth and

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