Book em if they do. The only way to rid the game of all the bad stuff is to punish teams until its not worth it. I am not confident it will be implemented successfully. Sadly.
I've only seen it used for discent in the lower leagues. Cynical fouls are just a booking. And in honesty a fair tactic (as long as you accept you are getting booked).
Football's been twatted about with far too much recently and sin bins are just another form of unnecessary twattery for me. It'll become another VAR review, another hold up, another point of contention, another focus of disagreement depending on your subjective club bias. It won't solve anything. It won't improve anything. I can't see the point to be honest.
In fact plenty of cynical fouls go unbooked currently. They should focus on sorting that out first. If it's used for what it should be (ref dissent) then it shouldn't need a review.
Depends what you take to be dissent. I mean, would you sin bin someone for calling the ref, I dunno, something like, a bloody onion? It could happen.
Sure but how would VAR review help with that? The only thing I could possibly think would be if the ref has misheard something but then you're relying on VAR mics picking up what's said.
How many times do we hear "**** off ref"...."get ****ed ref".... Blue, blue, blue, blue. In more pro it than againt it.
Personally I think it's a good move for a cynical foul. A booking is more often than not meaningless. A 10 mins sin bin brings some meaningful consequence for deliberately taking a player out to prevent a break away or whatever that would likely have led to a goal scoring opportunity. Sounds good to me.
Good, they shouldn't be swearing at a ref. Issue will become when refs are like my Sunday league refs, where if I say something to a teammate - or sometimes even an opposition player!! - along the lines of 'No way that's a free' they still get in our face about it. I even had one ref who berated an opposition player for LAUGHING amongst themselves about a decision.
Considering not every cynical foul is currently given a yellow, I'd rather they focus on doing that first, and then ensure they carry through and give a second yellow to a player who commits another cynical foul. That would really discourage it, because at the moment you can get away with one when on a yellow. Philogene actually had one on the weekend which would have been a yellow had he not already been booked.
He had a great shot that went out from the sideline and injured himself in the last kick. And this were the positives.
When George Best once asked the ref if he could be sent off for what he was thinking, the ref responded "Of course not George"... George shot back, " Well, I think you're a ???? ref."
The Premier League have said they don't want the Blue Card trial to be in the Premier League, so it will probably end up in one of the cup competitions.
Start the new season tell the clubs that one bad word to the ref and they are off - then do it and after about 3-4 matches it’ll be sorted . Don’t f*** about lessening the punishment . It’s not like roughy union where 1 less player has a massive effect . 10 men can sit deep for 10 mins quite easily .
