UEFA: Michel Platini calls for yellow cards to be replaced by a sin-bin

"I would change the system of cautions, the cards. I would make it like rugby, punishing the offender with 10 or 15 minutes out of the game," said Michel Platini, President of UEFA (Union of European Football Associations), on the 04/12/2013.

"That way, the benefit goes to the team the offender is playing against, in the same match, instead of a sanction by cards which is carried out against a third team, the next on the calendar," he added in an interview with Spanish sports daily newspaper AS.

"It is an idea. Now it needs to mature and see if it really is good for the game. It is a proposal to be explored", he added.

Michel Platini is proud to have contributed to improve the game by introducing three changes in the football rules: forbidding back passes to the goalkeeper, the expulsion of the last defender in case of foul play (rules introduced after the 1990 World Cup), and more recently, the introduction of additional assistant referees behind the goal lines. "I think I did well enough to improve the game with these changes in standards", Michel Platini declared.

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