The IFAB is ready to trial ‘orange cards’ that would send football players into a so-called ‘sin bin’ for a temporary expulsion, citing Giorgio Chiellini’s foul on Bukayo Saka in the EURO 2020 Final as an example.
The sport currently has only two types of cards, a yellow for a warning and a red that comes either after a second yellow or in response to very serious foul play.
With VAR making it increasingly easy to evaluate fouls in detail, the next stage of the evolution of the game could well be the introduction of an orange card.
It would send players to the touchline for a time-out, similar to the ‘sin bin’ that already exists in many other sports.
According to The Athletic, the tactical foul Chiellini performed to stop Saka running away during Italy’s triumphant EURO 2020 Final against England would be an ideal example of the orange card.
It can also be used for dissent in order to clamp down on protests from players.
If a goalkeeper is sent to the sin bin, then an outfield player must go in goal for that spell, leaving the team with 10 men.
So an independent opinion publication, The Athletic, have suggested Chiellini’s foul. Not the IFAB. Thanks for another clickbait title to reel people into reading your garbage “articles”.