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I see David Elleray (former referee) is renewing calls for sin-bins in football. Do you agree?

Personally speaking I don't, and here's why...first of all in football, it's very easy to deny a team posession, so if a team know they're down to 10 men for, say, 5 minutes then their first reaction will be to simply get the remaining players behind the ball and ironically teams a man up will be less likely to score. Sin-binnings would very quickly become something that completely kills the flow of a game (probably also the in-stadium atmosphere as the supporters realise they've got 5 minutes to go to the loo or get a pie.)

And also, the player who gets sin-binned is getting a breather, so imagine him coming back on the field and right away making a lung-bursting run to skin a tired defender and score - who's really been penalised then?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You make a great argument against this idea. It would destroy the flow of the game and it would give too much power to the Referee, as if they don't have enough. Its another judgement call, too fallible.

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