Jose Mourinho has revealed he is in favour of the proposed blue card being introduced into the Premier League, provided it stops players missing games for an accumulation of yellow cards.
Plans for a blue card would see 10-minute sin-bins trialled during games — in what would be the first new card added to the professional game since yellows and reds were brought in for the 1970 World Cup.
The initiative was set to see players sent to a 10-minute sin-bin for cynical fouls and showing dissent towards officials, in a rule similar to yellow cards being shown in rugby.
Receiving a blue and a yellow, or two blues, will have the same result as two yellows, and see players sent off.
The blue card is being considered by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), but a planned announcement last week was cancelled amid a furore of backlash at the idea.
A host of Premier League managers fumed at the decision believing it wouldn't be good for modern day football, however, Mourinho - although tentative - is in support of the new card being brought in to dish out mid-match punishment.
'I think there is always a feeling of changing things, I'm not always sure you change for better,' José Mourinho, Football.com Global ambassador told FIVE.
'I think if the sinbin means you're out for certain number of minutes but then not an accumulation of it and can play next match without suspension or five yellows I would say so.
'Something I never understand very well is from accumulation of yellow cards a payer cannot play one match, clubs pay players to play, players want to play, fans want players to play, you cannot play for accumulation of yellow cards.
'If there is something that takes it out I say yes and probably more fair than if you
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