Football's lawmakers Ifab are to trial sin-binning players and issuing blue cards, it will be announced on Friday.
The Premier League has already ruled out being part of the initial roll-out of any trial, while football's world governing body Fifa said "reports of the so-called 'blue card' at elite levels of football are incorrect and premature". Ifab is scheduled to hold its annual meeting at Loch Lomond in Scotland in March and sin-bin trials at higher levels of the game are listed as a topic for discussion in the agenda.They were introduced across all levels of grassroots football from the 2019-20 season in an attempt to to improve levels of respect and fair play.
"I think frustration for fans watching games when they see a promising counter-attack that's ruined by that ," FA chief executive Mark Bullingham previously said.