It is difficult to keep track of where more trials are prescribed these days: in the courts of the Old Bailey, the I’m A Celebrity jungle, or in the IFAB corridors of power.
The latest from the latter - that’s the International Football Association Board, the body in charge of setting and tweaking the game’s laws - is set to bring the experimentation with sin bins or ‘temporary dismissals’ (the moniker which appears to have, frustratingly, beaten ‘the naughty step’ to the scheme’s official billing) to the professional game.
