Football’s lawmakers have delayed plans to publish details of sin-bin trials at higher levels of football until next month, the PA news agency understands.
Trial protocols on sin-bins, plus other measures to combat poor player behaviour, were expected to be published on Friday, but it is understood they will now be the subject of further discussion at the International Football Association Board’s annual general meeting at Loch Lomond on March 2.
PA understands the protocols will not therefore be published before then.
FIFA wishes to clarify that reports of the so-called blue card at elite levels of football are incorrect and premature.
Any such trials, if implemented, should be limited to testing in a responsible manner at lower levels, a position th…