Sound of Football Podcast 563 - Blue cards

The Sound of Football

Last week, the football laws body IFAB announced an idea they were looking to trial - the introduction of blue cards for offences punishable by a visit to a ten minute sin bin. Why, in England at least, has the idea almost universally gone down like a lead balloon?
Are the decisions-makers at IFAB fixing problems that no one has asked them to fix?
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