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A yellow card in rugby means ten minutes off
The sin bin removes a player for a tenth of an 80-minute match A yellow card is shown for a mid-range offence such as a deliberate knock-on or a dangerous tackle, and the player waits on the touchline for 10 minutes. A second yellow in the same match becomes a red card, and a straight red ends the player's game. Cards came into the international game in the 1990s. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A yellow card in rugby means ten minutes off: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The sin bin removes a player for a tenth of an 80-minute match. The figure is taken from World Rugby, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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