• Selected leagues will use system during 2025-26 season
  • 2023-24 season saw 13% rise in serious misconduct cases

The Football Association is to introduce cooling-off periods in grassroots football in acknowledgement that ?more must be done? to contain bad behaviour by players at that level.
A select number of grassroots leagues are to trial the system this year, a move that will allow referee to order players of both teams to stop and retreat to their penalty area in order to prevent ?escalation during heated moments in a match?.
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