Not sure if this has been discussed before. Here's the article: http://goal.com/en-US/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=54378 Walsh: How About Seeing Blue Rather Than Red? I found this very interesting -- very forward thinking and I personally don't see it happening but it's a valid talking point because it takes into consideration how difficult the referee's job is. It cites the Lehmann incident and then also two situations in MLS last weekend.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I fail to see how it's needed and the penalty box is a dumb, dumb idea for football. All it would do is kill the game during those 15 mins as the team waited for the player to return. Booo.
its futbol, football, soccer...not hockey. Do you want to also add 5 time outs per team? Perhaps make them all wear helmets too? make goals count as two or three depending on the distance?
Blue cards are standard in indoor soccer. They work well. People who don't like blue cards do so on instinct. Not from experience. If you played soccer where blue cards are used, you'd quickly see the appeal.
No. A player represents the team because as well when given a red card, thus the whole team must sacrifice that player for his/her delinquence on the field. This rule does not belong in futbol
Also, just from a design/color standpoint, Blue is a dumb idea. In Fencing (yes, I'm a competitive fencer) we have yellow cards (warning), red cards (1 point against you) and BLACK CARDS (ejection from tournament, or longer). Black Cards are infinitely cooler that Blue.
I dont understand what is the need to come and change the game? The basic rules have been estated for over a hundred years and makes the games as passionate then as it is now. I believe the way it works right now keeps the intensity of the games at the level it is right now. No need to loose that.
A "blue card" would be a terrible, terrible idea. We cannot just try to "Americanize" soccer. I put this idea right along side the silly ideas of: 1) Kick-ins instead of throw-ins 2) The "shot against the clock" of the first few MLS seasons 3) Time-outs Soccer/Football is the way it should be. The ONLY change i would like to see "maybe" would be the chip inside the Adidas ball to see if a ball has fully crossed the goal line. All this other stuff is nonsense.
Blue cards worked fine in indoor, but I'm not sure I'd want to ever see them inplemented in outdoor because of the size of the field and the additional personnel on it. Add to that that outdoor refs already have enough to deal with, we don't need them debating exactly how serious a foul is (blue vs. yellow).
The solution I always thought might work is to allow red carded players to be substituted if the team had substitutions available. At least in the instance of a red via a second yellow.
Happens all the time. Goalkeepers spent 100 years picking up back passes with their hands. You want that back? For 60 years, when a player was injured his team played with 10, no substitutions allowed. Do you pine for those days? At any rate, blue cards + red cards would be a fine system. Better than the current approach. A guy acts like a jackass, a referee doesn't have to sit around wondering if it's quite severe enough for a yellow, or if it's a second yellow. Just flash him a blue and send his butt to the bench. If he does it again, send him again. You don't have to worry about permanently impairing the game. If you think about it, it's quite strange that a player is penalized for picking up a yellow card in this game by potentially missing the next match. So Michael Ballack hurts Korea's chances in the World Cup by making a hard saving tackle -- and the penalty is to help Brazil by removing Ballack from the final match? How does that possibly make sense? I'll tell you right now - it doesn't. You only think it makes sense because that's what you're used to. But it's crazy. If somebody proposed such a system and it was new to you, you'd laugh. With blue cards, you spank Ballack here & now, so that Korea benefits. Not Brazil.
I like soccer. I don't like indoor soccer. In fact, the first time I saw a blue card, I was thinkin' "What the hell is a blue card for??" I think it's just silly. Now, my daughter had a fine idea, after seeing Guevara in one of his many dives... Her: "They should give him a pink card!" Me: "A pink card? Why pink?" Her: "'Cause he's a pu**y!" *sniff* she makes me so proud.
It would impair the game tremendously. The team losing a player would merely play 10 men behind the ball till he came back on and then have to regain momentum after that. Why is their an outcry for this? There isn't a important need like with the pass back rule.
So, the team would be penalized because one of its players committed a bad foul? I sob for it. At any rate, there is no outcry for this change. It won't happen.
Beats the youth alternative, which is a referee without the balls to use yellow cards. At least the blues get used and a semblance of order occurs. Outdoors ... once the players figure out that a bad referee won't pull out a yellow, it's target practice for the hacks.
Well, I equated the blue card to a foul slightly more serious than one yellow so there wasn't a loss of a player. That is where I was coming from, perhaps I was mistaken on that belief.
Actually this idea, the idea of a "penalty box" in soccer comes up fairly regularly on BBC Five Live discussions about how to fix certain problems in the game. So, I don't know about the rest of the world, but the Brits at least are thinking about it. Whether it will ever come to pass, who knows.
Also it has been noted that a purple card will be issued when the referee likes the run of play and at that time team receiving said card will be able to put another player on the field and play 12v11 for 15 minutes.
We're on to something. An orange card means that no one is allowed to play a backpass for 15 minutes. Checkered card means mandatory water break for fans and players. Horizontally striped cards means players must stay within their pre-determined 25 meter "zone" on the field and pass accordingly to advance the ball. Vertical stripes mean the same, but that you must do 10 pushups for each incompleted pass...