100 minute football

newyddion

newyddion

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I mean there's cracking down on time wasting.. but these matches are massively long.

Game changing! Does this give some sort of advantage to sponsors or something? this games being played 10-15 minutes longer than normal?
 
Linny said:
It’s advantageous to the crowd who get robbed every match with the ridiculous amount of time wasting that goes on, almost from the first minute.

Hope this approach continues and filters down to domestic leagues.
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Agree with this completely.

You either do what they're doing during this tournament and actually add on the right amount of stoppage time for all the breaks (substitutions, goal celebrations, corners, booking etc).

Or you change football to be a 60-minute game where you stop the clock every time there's a break/the ball goes out of play.

Whichever option means time wasting isn't rewarded and that fans get a decent amount of 'ball in play' time instead of the shocking 55 minutes we get today is fine by me.
 
Transparency is the key. Have a separate timekeeper to the ref and have the time added on visible to the managers and fans (where possible). Is anyone even that clear on what stoppages count towards "extra time" and what don't?

Teams will soon stop wasting time when they can see it accumulating while they fake injury or slowly dawdle off the pitch to be substituted etc.

As it stands no-one has a clue what's going on till the board goes up and displays the standard "finger in the air" four or five minutes.

Surprised no-one has done a study actually (or have they?) on the amount of time that should be added on in games v what is actually added by refs.
 
festa5 said:
Transparency is the key. Have a separate timekeeper to the ref and have the time added on visible to the managers and fans (where possible). Is anyone even that clear on what stoppages count towards "extra time" and what don't?

Teams will soon stop wasting time when they can see it accumulating while they fake injury or slowly dawdle off the pitch to be substituted etc.

As it stands no-one has a clue what's going on till the board goes up and displays the standard "finger in the air" four or five minutes.

Surprised no-one has done a study actually (or have they?) on the amount of time that should be added on in games v what is actually added by refs.
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“fake injury or slowly dawdle off the pitch to be substituted etc.”
It’s not really about wasting time though is it . It is all done to break up momentum and relieve pressure.
Referees stopping the game every 2 minutes for nothing is the most frustrating watch no matter how long is added on at the end..
 
davidmills said:
“fake injury or slowly dawdle off the pitch to be substituted etc.”
It’s not really about wasting time though is it . It is all done to break up momentum and relieve pressure.
Referees stopping the game every 2 minutes for nothing is the most frustrating watch no matter how long is added on at the end..
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It's a bit of both I'd say.

I'd still argue sides would be less likely to do it if they can see minutes being added on for it. Long periods of time added on can be a big psychological boost for the side chasing the game and vice versa.

Plus of course you can still book players for time wasting in addition to it.
 
newyddion said:
I mean there's cracking down on time wasting.. but these matches are massively long.

Game changing! Does this give some sort of advantage to sponsors or something? this games being played 10-15 minutes longer than normal?
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Sounds like you're happy being short changed.
 
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