Jurgen Klopp and Ange Postecoglou are all the football fans who have their opinion on the blue card and can get their wish after FIFA's response.
Ange Postecoglou and Jurgen Klopp have expressed their disagreement with the idea of introducing blue cards in football.
Currently referees use yellow and red cards to caution and send off respectively, but reports say the International Football Association Board (IFAB) wants to get involved in blue card tests.
A player would be shown one for a cynical foul or disagreement towards a referee and would be taken off the field for ten minutes as part of a sin-bin, similar to rugby rules.
However, the initial reaction from fans has been mostly negative and managers of two of the Premier League's biggest clubs have raised doubts about the possible introduction of a third card.
“It's hard for me to understand why this urgency to bring new things all of a sudden,” said the Tottenham manager. Postecoglou on Friday. “I don't know if there's much wrong with the game.
“My problem with the game at the moment 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 if this takes things from other sports. Other sports are trying to make their games faster, we are creating more disorder.”
Liverpool boss klopp said: “I think what the current situation shows, we should do it and keep it as much as possible for the referees too. It's a difficult job, we all know it, we often get very emotional when we talk about it because it's more often after the game .
“I think the introduction of a new card would also give more opportunities to fail because the discussion will be: 'It was a blue card, it should have been a yellow card, now there are ten minutes left, in the old days it would have been a red card or just a yellow card.'” .
“Anyway, this kind of thing just makes it more complicated. If they want to try it, I have no problem with trying it, but if that's the first step to agreeing or already agreeing, I'm sure it will happen, but I don't do it.” “. I don't know, to be honest, I have no idea.
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“It doesn't seem like a fantastic idea at first, but I don't actually remember the last fantastic idea that came from these guys, if they ever had one, IFAB. No, I'm 56, no, never.”
Postecoglou and Klopp may be against the idea of blue cards, but their introduction into top-flight football is unlikely to come anytime soon anyway, with FIFA responding to initial proposals.
“FIFA wishes to clarify that reports regarding the so-called 'blue card' at elite levels of football are incorrect and premature,” the international football governing body said.
“Any such testing, if implemented, should be limited to testing responsibly at lower levels, a position that FIFA intends to reiterate when this agenda item is discussed at the IFAB Annual General Assembly on March 1 “.
Dustbins have been used successfully in grassroots football for several years, but the IFAB indicated at its annual business meeting in November its willingness to trial them at higher levels.
It has been claimed that FA Cup and Women's FA Cup matches could be used as competitions for blue card trials, with the Premier League and Women's Super League excluded given their status as top-tier competitions.
The IFAB was due to publish details of the sin-bin trials at football's highest levels on Friday but, following the overwhelmingly negative response, football's lawmakers are understood to have decided to delay this until their annual general meeting in March.
The introduction of a blue card, if included in the rules of the game, would mark the biggest change in the management of player discipline since red and yellow cards came into effect at the 1970 World Cup.
