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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Sin-bins to be trialled at higher levels of football after grassroots success

Players surround referee Anthony Taylor after Lewis Dunk’s red card for Brighton on Saturday
Players surround referee Anthony Taylor after Lewis Dunk’s red card for Brighton on Saturday. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/Reuters

The use of sin-bins is to be expanded in football, part of a series of measures designed to help protect referees from abuse.

The International Football Association Board, football’s rule‑making body, announced on Tuesday that sin‑bins would be used at “higher levels” after successful grassroots tests. It also confirmed a second set of trials under which captains will be the only people allowed to approach the referee during certain important moments.

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