Tony Pulis has called for rules to be re-considered when it comes to yellow card decisions.

He believes that clubs should be allowed to appeal yellow cards after Claudio Yacob was harshly sent off in West Brom’s defeat to Aston Villa recently.

The midfielder was dismissed for a second bookable offence after he cleanly won the ball, but was deemed to jump into the challenge. Yacob had already received a yellow from referee Anthony Taylor and will now be suspended for one game.

Pulis called the decision “disgraceful” and hopes that the FA will look into a new rule which allows clubs to appeal.

It isn’t the first time a Premier League manager has expressed their concern about the yellow card process - Harry Redknapp also brought up the idea in 2009.

When Redknapp was Spurs manager, Wilson Palacios was red carded for a second foul against Blackburn. Speaking at the time Redknapp said: "It's a flawed system really that you can't appeal against a yellow card when it's blatantly wrong.

"That's was never a yellow card, his second, either, and it's crazy. Surely they can look at that and say it was the wrong decision, they've not made contact with the player, so it shouldn't count and he should be able to play."

So is it something that should be brought in?

As the game progresses, referees seem to be losing their power. But instead of bringing in video referees and technology like many other sports, more and more decisions can be appealed and fought against after the game is over.

Slightly different to club football, yellow cards can be re-considered in the World Cup so that players cannot miss crucial matches. Should this be brought into the football leagues around the world as well?

Personally I don’t think so. You can practically appeal everything now and if you are going to do that then the easiest solution is to bring in video referees. That way any decisions that managers or players aren’t happy with can be dealt with there and then.

Whilst the idea of bringing in video referees is a controversial and by no means easy decision, I will be surprised if we don’t see some form of the idea in the next decade.

But until that sort of huge decision is made, the idea of appealing against yellow cards is an idea that should swiftly be forgotten.

I can see why Pulis wants it - Yacob was dismissed unfairly - but players receive yellow cards frequently, with teams sometimes having five or six cautioned in a single game.

Clubs haven’t got the time or effort to appeal yellow cards after every match and, whilst every now and again a yellow card decision might be overturned, the numbers just wouldn’t add up to bring in such a rule.

So my message to Tony Pulis and other grumpy managers is this - sadly it may not be fair at the time but appealing is not the answer. Sadly at the moment they will just have to like it or lump it.