This is not really similar to the arguments surrounding video technology at all. One is an attempt to create a fairer and more balanced basis for important decisions during games. The other is an attempt to rewrite the rules to give the fouled team a bigger advantage.

Changes are utterly slow in football, regardless of what changes are implemented. Also, there is usually a big majority who detest the change when it finally comes.

Difference is that one suggestion is reasonable and well-argued and in the best interest of the sport. The other one is stupid and intuitive. Guess which one Platini has decided to back in public and which one he's actively been undermining for years?

Put it this way: give the referee the benefit of a video replay and he won't need to send players to the sin-bin just because he might feel it's too rash to hand out a red card or a second yellow or whatever.

Wenger argues his point from the perspective of a manager ("Id like to calm the player down a bit so he won't get sent off"), not from a perspective where he asks what's best for the sport. Poll argues from the point of view of a referee who's faced with a tough and unpopular decision. None of them have authority here.

The sane conclusion would be to just give the referee better tools to do his job, but Platini doesn't roll that way.

Bold Tone wrote:

Wenger's opinion:
http://www.givemesport.com/186955-would-sin-bins-work-in-football
Graham Poll's Perspective:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2084438/Sin-bins-introduced-Graham-Poll.html
Platini has moved that line further along
I do not think the idea is as radical as many of you guys do.
Not as if changes in rules never take place and if it was no good, the other sports that have adopted this rule would have stopped it.
In any case, if it doesn't work, it can be stopped like the 10 yard for dissent rule.

Wenger is generally spot on in these kind of matters. He's undoubtedly a purist and always has the interest of the game at heart. Immediate and proportionate punishment, not the illogical setup we have in place at the moment. Pity it'll probably a long time if ever before the game finally catches up.

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