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By Alan Smith Football’s lawmakers IFAB will discuss new disciplinary rules later today that could see blue cards and sin bins introduced on a trial basis. Players could soon be forced to sit out 10 minutes of action for cynical fouls or displays of dissent – with the colour of card shown for those guilty of offering fruity language to match officials fittingly being blue. But there appears no immediate prospect of either innovations being used at the top of the professional game with the Premier League ’s head of football Tony Scholes earlier this week appearing to rule out its introduction i…

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