Thursday, December 05, 2013

Platini would like sin bins

"I would make it like rugby, punishing the offender with 10 or 15 minutes out of the game," Platini said. "It is an idea. Now it needs to mature and see if it really is good for the game. It is a proposal to be explored."

The fundamental kernel at the centre of Platini’s idea is actually fairly sound, with UEFA’s grand poobah pointing out that, as things stand, when players are suspended for accumulating a certain number of yellow cards they are suspended for future games, meaning that the club they actually picked up the booking while playing against don’t receive enough of an advantage.

Platini reckons sin bins would be fairer as, in his words, "that way, the benefit goes to the team he is playing against, in the same match, instead of a sanction by cards which is carried out against a third team, the next on the calendar."

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