Football's lawmakers are set to trial sin-binning players and issuing blue cards in the game - where player would spend 10 minutes in the technical area after being given the card by a referee.

Sin-bins were piloted in 2018-19 and led to the Football Association reporting a 38% total reduction in dissent across 31 leagues. Its use could now be extended to cynical fouls as part of a trial.

The Premier League has already ruled out being part of the initial roll-out of any trial, although world governing body Fifa said that reports of using the blue card at elite levels of the game were incorrect and premature. They were then introduced across all levels of grassroots football from the 2019-20 season in an attempt to improve levels of respect and fair play.

Ifab (International Football Association Board) secretary Lukas Brud that said one of the next steps was to identify the appropriate competition where the trials could take place. "The positive message of the meeting is that 'yes, we're going to do something in that direction'," he said.

"I'm hopeful that in the next few months, we will have clarity about which competitions will want to trial this as well. But it's up to them to decide whether, or not, they want to take part in those trials.

Mark Bullingham, FA (English Football Association) chief executive, said: "The question of whether a yellow card is sufficient enough has led to us to look at whether that should be involved in the protocol as well.

"The starting point was looking at player behaviour and dissent - we're then looking at whether we should extend it into other areas, such as tactical fouls, as well." Meanwhile, former referee Pierluigi Collina, who is currently chair of the Fifa referees' committee, and also sits on the governing body's technical sub-committee, said that the proposed trials would probably involve professional football.

After in-bins were piloted in 2018-19, the FA reporting a 38% total reduction in dissent across 31 leagues. They were introduced across all levels of grassroots football from the 2019-20 season in an attempt to improve levels of respect and fair play.

The rule change was then implemented up to step five of the National League system and tier three and below in women's football.