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TONY INCENZO: Like it or not, sin bins work!

Talk of blue cards and sin bins have dominated the mainstream national media in recent weeks with reports suggesting both could be introduced at football’s highest echelons in the near future.

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Tony Incenzo
25 February 2024

TONY INCENZO:

Tony INCENZO
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LAST CHANCE SALOON: Referee Robert Massey-Ellis brandishes a yellow card to Barnet’s Anthony Hartigan. Inset: Keith Hackett
PICTURE: Alamy

TALK of blue cards and sin bins have dominated the mainstream national media in recent weeks with reports suggesting both could be introduced at football’s highest echelons in the near future.
This would result in referees being permitted to send players off for 10 minutes following dissent or cynical fouls – naturally prompting heated debate among top players, managers and pundits who already have their tails in a spin wi...

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