Sin bins

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I remember when sin bins came into Rugby Union. It became immediately apparent that there would need to be changes made to the system of timekeeping to ensure that they worked, the most important of these being something that I've advocated on this site (and elsewhere) for a long time now.

The introduction of a Game Clock.

Football is played in real time, as was Rugby in many places up to then. The introduction of the sin bin simply meant that teams deprived of a player for ten minutes would immediately do all they could to slow or completely stop the game while the clock ticked the ten minutes of the penalty down. It is highly likely that football teams would do exactly the same.

Players would suddenly go down and require lengthy on field treatment. Defensive walls at free kicks would suddenly take an age to be lined up. Goalkeepers would delay taking goal kicks. Substitutions would be made during a sin binning. I can envisage a plethora of boots needing to be changed, or contact lenses falling out, all holding up or stopping the game. And that's before head injuries for trivial levels of contact became even more exaggerated than they are now.

If sin bins are introduced, they will only be effective if some degree of time management is also implemented which ensures the player is off the field for ten (I would prefer fifteen) minutes of actual live-ball game time.

I've said it many times over. Football needs to implement a game clock.
 
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