Finals to get amnesty in FRC’s card compromise

Proposed black and yellow card suspensions won’t apply to the All-Ireland football finals.

Under the Football Review Committee’s (FRC) adjusted recommendation, from 2014 any inter-county player who picks up three black cards or three double yellows over a season faces a one-match ban.

Under the FRC’s original “yellow and you’re off” proposal, a two-game suspension would have been handed down to a footballer who had been yellow carded on three occasions during a season.