Seeing red.

I've suggested before that perhaps we need to reconsider the penalty kick, but what about red cards? Particularly red cards as a result of two yellows. Clearly transgressions need to be punished, but being reduced to ten men in the last five minutes of a game is a different kettle of fish from being down to ten men after half an hour. Is it time to take a leaf from Rugby and introduce the sin bin? Sending a man off for ten or fifteen minutes would seem to be a far more equitable solution. After all, it is now accepted that football is a spectacle as much as, if not more than a sport, so surely you have to look at things from a spectator point of view, and there's little doubt that sending a man off, particularly in the early stages of a game, more often than not ruins it as a spectacle. And people who have paid good money to watch a match - money which the game relies upon for its continued survival - surely deserve more consideration?