Gianni Infantino gives blue cards the red card and says Fifa is opposed to plan

Gianni Infantino said: ‘Once you look at it you also have to protect the essence and tradition of the game. There is no blue card.’ Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Gianni Infantino has personally killed plans to introduce a blue card to football saying it is a “red card to the blue card” and that he was not made aware of proposals before the controversial idea became public.

Football’s rulemaking body, the International Football Association Board (Ifab), is understood to be ready to expand trials of a sin-bin for men’s football, although not to the elite level, but the addition of a third card to a referee’s pocket is no more, according to the Fifa president.