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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
John Brewin

Blue cards and why football doesn’t need to be muddled further

A yellow card being shown to a Sheffield Wednesday player
Just imagine that card is a different colour and we’ve nailed this lead image. Photograph: Eleanor Hoad/Every Second Media/Rex/Shutterstock

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Football is just the best, isn’t it? No game comes close. Eleven v 11, goalposts, jumpers, goals, saves, misses, tackles, dirty fouls, scenes you don’t want to see but really do, b@ntz, anger, joy and pain. It’s not perfect but that’s the way we like it. And yet. There’s always someone who wants to tinker with the game. You know the type. You probably hear them every week.

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