Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
The Echo says its the next three league games but I think this is wrong
The new rules brought in have a loophole in them around red cards
An fictitious possible future example was quoted by associated press and used in some papers...
Finally, that has changed.
From this season, yellow cards picked up in Premier League or EFL matches will only be relevant to that competition.
So bookings picked up next season will only apply to the competition they are in
Five Prem bookings before the mid-way point of the season will bring an automatic one-game ban. As will 10 by the 32-game point.
But you need to be booked twice in either the Carabao Cup or FA Cup to be banned from the next game in that season’s competition
Yet while the change was welcome, one aspect of the new regulations was allowed to pass through unnoticed.
And that is a flaw which opens the possibility for a manipulative, savvy and street-wise gaffer to “game” the whole system to the benefit of their own team.
Let’s just take the weekend of October 27.
The following midweek is the Carabao Cup fourth round. Four days later, another key Prem weekend.
Let us suppose that your key defender has four Prem bookings going into the first weekend.
One more and he will be banned for the next league match, in a weekend in which, as it so happens, Arsenal host Liverpool.
An hour into a game you are winning comfortably, and that defender gets caught the wrong side of the striker and decides to “take the hit” and bring him down.
One yellow card results
Yellow card. Fair enough. And a ban for the following weekend.
But with the game won, ahead of a midweek match in which you were not going to play the defender anyhow – you want him right for the following Prem match – it would not be beyond the wit of a boss to urge the player to pick up a second yellow in the dying moments of the game.
His bookings tally remains at four, with the two that added up to a red not taken into account.
The automatic ban for the red card would then be served in the Carabao Cup match – a game in which he would not have played – freeing him for the next Prem encounter.
The KEY is red cards are the next three first team games regardless.
The new rules brought in have a loophole in them around red cards
An fictitious possible future example was quoted by associated press and used in some papers...
Finally, that has changed.
From this season, yellow cards picked up in Premier League or EFL matches will only be relevant to that competition.
So bookings picked up next season will only apply to the competition they are in
Five Prem bookings before the mid-way point of the season will bring an automatic one-game ban. As will 10 by the 32-game point.
But you need to be booked twice in either the Carabao Cup or FA Cup to be banned from the next game in that season’s competition
Yet while the change was welcome, one aspect of the new regulations was allowed to pass through unnoticed.
And that is a flaw which opens the possibility for a manipulative, savvy and street-wise gaffer to “game” the whole system to the benefit of their own team.
Let’s just take the weekend of October 27.
The following midweek is the Carabao Cup fourth round. Four days later, another key Prem weekend.
Let us suppose that your key defender has four Prem bookings going into the first weekend.
One more and he will be banned for the next league match, in a weekend in which, as it so happens, Arsenal host Liverpool.
An hour into a game you are winning comfortably, and that defender gets caught the wrong side of the striker and decides to “take the hit” and bring him down.
One yellow card results
Yellow card. Fair enough. And a ban for the following weekend.
But with the game won, ahead of a midweek match in which you were not going to play the defender anyhow – you want him right for the following Prem match – it would not be beyond the wit of a boss to urge the player to pick up a second yellow in the dying moments of the game.
His bookings tally remains at four, with the two that added up to a red not taken into account.
The automatic ban for the red card would then be served in the Carabao Cup match – a game in which he would not have played – freeing him for the next Prem encounter.
The KEY is red cards are the next three first team games regardless.
