FA Cup to trial sin bins from next season as IFAB look to crack down on bad behaviour

The FA Cup could be used as a trial for sin bins from next season as football chiefs look to crack down on bad behaviour in the game

Big changes could be coming to the FA Cup- players might be given short bans during matches for bad behaviour. This idea is likely to get the go-ahead from football lawmakers IFAB.

Referees could then send off players who disobey the rules to the sidelines for ten minutes. IFAB are set to talk about this plan at a meeting next month, as they want to fix the issue of poor conduct in football games.

FIFA referees' head honcho Pierluigi Collina supports this change. He stated that the mistreatment and physical risk to game officials "might be the cancer that kills football." He said further: "The idea is to go deeper into all of the details because it's easy to say we do (it) and it's a bit more difficult how to regulate everything."

Collina added: "But the idea is to start working on this as soon as possible to provide those who would be involved in the trial a protocol to be used. The idea is to get it soon."

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He also said: "The trial was very successful in a grassroots competition. Now we are talking of a higher level, very probably professional or even high professional football."

Mark Bullingham, who's in charge of the Football Association, has also talked about bringing sin bins into the game.

Bullingham explained last November: "When we were looking at sin bins protocol clearly has to be developed the areas we were looking at were dissent, where it's worked very, very well in the grassroots game in England."

"We've also spoken about other areas, particularly tactical fouls. I think frustration for fans watching games when they see a promising counter-attack that's ruined by that and the question of whether a yellow card is sufficient for that has led to us looking at whether that should be involved in the protocol as well."

"The starting point was looking at player behaviour and dissent we're then looking at whether we should extend it into other areas, such as tactical fouls, as well."