The yellow card rule at Euro 2016 is coming in for a serious amount of flak

Match day suspensions. Never great. Heartbreaking. Tear jerking. Soul destroying. All from a yellow card suspension. Pick up two yellow cards at Euro 2016 and you are suspended for one game. Just two yellow cards in five matches and you could miss a semi-final. What makes the rule worse is, unlike in the Champions League and other footballing tournaments, the slate is not wiped clean after the group stages. As a result, the yellow card rule is causing mass suspensions across the board as several players drop out of the semi-final games thanks to their yellow cards. If you're a combative midfielder, or a defender that likes a tackle, missing one game of a now-extended European Championship seems like an inevitability. Aaron Ramsey, Ben Davies and Mats Hummels are just some of the stars who will miss the Euro 2016 semi-finals, and the rule has come in for criticism from a lot of football fans. https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/749345428387266560 https://twitter.com/SNFaizalKhamisa/status/748977847277064193 https://twitter.com/TheeCoreyH/status/749344582673035268 https://twitter.com/Musker_LFC/status/749306334441574400 Some commented that the slate should be wiped clean for players after a certain stage, to better allow players to make the later stages of the tournament. https://twitter.com/fateiskind/status/748977788472946688 https://twitter.com/JPW_NBCSports/status/749328675510882304 Of course where there are some complaints, there are others complaining about the people complaining. https://twitter.com/JongsmaJongsma/status/749345121410383872