Platini and Blatter come with these "ideas" once in a while it seems to keep people guessing if they actually ****ing do anything.
I wouldn't call it crazy, he is merely suggesting an alternative and said it is an idea worth exploring. Hardly worth blowing it out of proportion. Some of what he says makes sense, not saying it will work. But nothing crazy about it.
Sorry, it's utter bollocks. I do not why these numpties always try and fiddle with the game of football. It''s close to perfect as it is, no need for **** like this.
I agree with his no red-card idea but just for for denying a clear goal-scoring opportunity. I would like it replaced with a penalty (even if the foul was outside the box) and a yellow instead of a red. It is a change that I think would improve ALL levels of the game. I don't like the sin-bin idea at all. It is a far more severe punishment than the existing yellow, and if a referee hands out more than one yellow at a point in time, could lead to farcical situations. What happens if a goalkeeper gets a yellow? Really stupid!
One of the reason why I hate this idea is that when a team goes down to 10 men after a sin bin, that team will just start to be cagey and try and hold on for 15 minutes, which kills the game for that 15 minutes.
Also refs simply make too many mistakes for this to work, and therefore teams on the wrong end of a bad call, will suffer a lot more with this sin bin.
I think the sin bin is a good idea and it will stop many "one taken for the team" yellow cards, so many yellows do not warrant a sending off for a 2nd yellow and yet the yellow card doesn't seem like enough punishment at times but a red too much. it would clean up the game, as with ice hockey if you do something intentionally in terms of stopping the other team playing then going down to 10 men for 5 minutes, not 15 though, would be good. My only reservation and it is a huge one that makes it unworkable is that many yellows are given for nothing unfortunately and going down to 10 men for 5 minutes because of a nothing challenge would be bollocks. But in the case of intentionally pulling back an opponent, that would warrant 5 minutes in the sin bin, accumulative foul does not warrant it. Too tricky to implement and there would be too many unfairly sin bin'd players that would affect results.
