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Jurgen Klopp (R), manager of Liverpool, talks to the referee during the Premier League game against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in London, England, February 4, 2024. /CFP
Multiple club managers in the Premier League have opposed the International Football Association Board's (IFAB's) plan to introduce a blue card to professional football.
Blue card has been used in ice hockey and indoor football in the U.S. among other sports to have the player who breaks house safety rules stay in a penalty box, or, a sin bin, in other words, for a period of time during which his side will play one man down.
The IFAB wanted to add blue card to football as a penalty for dissent and specific tactical offences such as so-called 'professional' fouls for which a red card isn't warranted.
"These kinds of things just make it more complicated," Liverpool's manager Jurgen Klopp said at a press conference on Friday. "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."
"[It] doesn't sound like a fantastic idea in first moment. But I can't remember when the last fantastic idea came from these guys [IFAB] if they ever had one," he added.
Matty Beniers (#10) of the Seattle Kraken heads to the penalty box in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference first round against the Colorado Avalanche at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, April 28, 2023. /CFP
Ange Postecoglou, manager of Tottenham Hotspur and his Chelsea's counterpart Mauricio Pochettino are not supportive of sin bin either.
"I struggle to understand why this urgency suddenly to bring in new things. I don't know if there's that much wrong with the game," Postecoglou said. "My issue with the game right now is that VAR has changed football as an experience. I don't know why a different color card is going to make a difference. I don't know about this taking things from other sports. Other sports are trying to make their games faster, we're bringing in more clutter."
"It's going to be more complicated because the interpretation of the referee [of] when to apply the red, the yellow or the blue [is important]," Pochettino told reporters. "What happens with the goalkeeper? Do you play without the goalkeeper for 10 minutes or can you change? We will see."
FIFA announced on Thursday that there's no immediate plans to introduce blue card into the elite games. "FIFA wishes to clarify that reports of the so-called 'blue card' at elite levels of football are incorrect and premature," the global football governing body said in a statement. "Any such trials, if implemented, should be limited to testing in a responsible manner at lower levels, a position that FIFA intends to reiterate when this agenda item is discussed at the IFAB AGM on 2 March."