A FIFA yellow card proposal that makes sense, at least a little bit

FIFA president Sepp Blatter will consider a rule change allowing three yellow cards before a suspension in future World Cups and has called for a crackdown on players feigning injury to disrupt matches.

Currently, two bookings in the group stage or knockout phase leads to a one-match ban for a player.

Blatter told a news conference in Berlin: 'In the future there should perhaps be three yellow cards in a round before a suspension, and this is something we will take up.

'This would avoid players in the semi-finals on one yellow card who by bad luck may get a second and cannot play in the final.

'The referees should also first tell a player to calm down and then give him a yellow card the second time if it is not a very serious foul.'