Football is an increasingly complicated game.
With every new season comes fresh rule changes and guideline tweaks as associations strive for impossible perfection, often leaving fans frustrated by a lack of consistency and common sense.
The latest introduction touted by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) is blue cards, a potentially game-shattering concept that will completely alter football as we know it.
But, while the social media sphere has been critical of the idea, what do Premier League managers think about the potential arrival of blue cards?
Blue cards are fairly simple to understand, yet they would have an immense impact on football.
If a player is shown a blue card, they would be sin-binned for ten minutes, only returning to the field after serving their mini suspension. That means any side that receives a blue card is reduced to ten players for a short period of time.
Blue cards would be shown to players for cynical fouls or dissent, replacing a yellow card for these offences. If a player is shown two blue cards in a match, they would be sent off for the entirety of the game, as they also would if given a combination of one blue and one yellow card.
Goalkeepers would not be exempt from blue cards, meaning teams would either have to play an outfield player in goal for ten minutes or substitute an outfield player with a goalkeeper as sin-binned players can’t be directly withdrawn during their punishment.
Blue cards have already been trialled regularly in grassroots football matches in the United Kingdom and, while no specific date has been penned in for their trialled introduction at higher levels, lawmakers were set to release their plans for blue cards in greater detail during February 2024.
However, perhaps after widespread criticism of the proposal, they have delayed publishing their blue card plans until the beginning of March.
It’s fair to say criticism of blue cards has been almost universal among Premier League managers, with Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp one of those to have questioned the introduction of the rule change.
Speaking about blue cards in a press conference, the German stated: “These kinds of things just make it more complicated. If you want to test it, no problem with testing, but if that’s the first step to agreeing or already being sure that it will happen. I have no idea to be honest. I have no idea.
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