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Orange card and sin bin: future plans of candidate Fifa president Jérôme Champagne
Candidate Fifa president Jérôme Champagne launched his future plans to make Fifa an organisation of the 21st century. He wants to introduce an orange card and a sin bin for players. Champagne got backed up for his candidacy by Brazilian World Class player Pelé. The Frenchman helped run Blatter’s 2002 election campaign. Champagne wants to reform Fifa and bring more democracy in the world football organisation. There are also a few things he wants to modernise refereeing. What do you think of the following suggestions: introducing sin-bins by way of an orange card. He mentioned the example of a player who had already been booked then receiving a second yellow…
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Referees in the media (week 3)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “We should reflect on the experience tennis and rugby on their own methods including temporary exclusions (the sin bin), public explanation of referee’s decisions, or rugby’s penalty try for example.” FIFA’s former director of international relations Jerome Champagne has suggested changes in the world governing body in an interview with Reuters. “I’ll take all necessary measures to clear my name. What they did is so sneaky.” Says Bulgarian referee Raicho Raichev about Luchezar Yonov, a suspended referee, who used Raichev’s…
