Stoppage time

[JelavicBrate2]

Is anyone else sick and tired of ridiculous amounts of added time in games? My view unless there has been a serious injury then you should only have about 5 to 6 minutes at most. Ridiculous amounts of added time favours bigger clubs with bigger squads. Also amount of time seems to be randomly decided and seem to benefit certain clubs. It's supposed to be a 90 minute game not a 100 minute game.

 

[Timbucktoo]

The time keeping in the game should be done by the 4th official on the side line. The ref can say when he is stopping play for an injury or substitution so the stadium clock can show the time is stopped and there is no guess work involved. It has worked in Rugby for years where there are plenty of stoppages and as 80 minutes comes up everyone knows that the end of the game is then, not in our circus of a sport where on 90 mins you only get to see how much time the ref pulls out of the sky to add on.

 

[GoldenToffee]

There are many better ways for officiating teams to track the correct amount of additional minutes, so the fact it's still left solely at the discretion of the referee and when you look at how certain teams get a favourable number of numbers (more if not winning, fewer if winning), you can only assume it's part of the storywriting to control the result.

 

[Eggs]

….should do like they do in Rugby, stop the clock when a trainer comes on & when a substitution is made. Take the responsibility away from the ref & a hooter blows at 90mins.

Clear to everybody then.

 

[bluelife]

The average time in play for a PL game is 55 mins BTW. So clock stopping would be a major change

 

[Lanolin]

The average time in play for a PL game is 55 mins BTW. So clock stopping would be a major change

You don’t stop the clock literally every time the ball goes out of play though, you just do it at the times it currently happens, but make it transparent instead of nobody having any idea what to expect.

 

[hallamblue]

The average time in play for a PL game is 55 mins BTW. So clock stopping would be a major change

If you made the game 60 minutes long and stopped the clock when it went out of play games would actually take less time because there would be no point in time wasting.

 

[Eggs]

The average time in play for a PL game is 55 mins BTW. So clock stopping would be a major change

….obviously it doesn’t stop every time the ball goes out of play, just when a trainer comes on, a substitute is made and VAR is considering a decision.

Not complicated.

 

[bluenorthwarrior]

Bigger part of the problem is the non-injury and sub timewasting though so any stop the clock system doesn't addres this.

Goalkeepers routinely make a goalkick take 45 seconds when they need to, same with free kicks etc.

I don't think clock should stop for everything as it would get ridiculous but this low-grade gamesmanship/cheating (that every team does) would need to be addressed. Taking it off the onfield referee might be a start.

 

[hallamblue]

Bigger part of the problem is the non-injury and sub timewasting though so any stop the clock system doesn't addres this.

Goalkeepers routinely make a goalkick take 45 seconds when they need to, same with free kicks etc.

I don't think clock should stop for everything as it would get ridiculous but this low-grade gamesmanship/cheating (that every team does) would need to be addressed. Taking it off the onfield referee might be a start.

Clock doesn't restart until the goalkeeper kicks a goal kick, same with a free kick. Works in Ice hockey.

 

[Eggs]

Bigger part of the problem is the non-injury and sub timewasting though so any stop the clock system doesn't addres this.

Goalkeepers routinely make a goalkick take 45 seconds when they need to, same with free kicks etc.

I don't think clock should stop for everything as it would get ridiculous but this low-grade gamesmanship/cheating (that every team does) would need to be addressed. Taking it off the onfield referee might be a start.

….apparently there’s a ‘new rule’ to award a corner kick if the goalkeeper is obviously wasting time.

 

[toffeeblue9]

One of the things our American friends do correctly (IMO) is timekeeping in sports. Average length of time the ball is in play in a Premier League game is about 55 mins apparently. Make it a 60 min game, but stop the clock whenever the ball isn't in play - on average you'll see more time the ball is in play, it would mean time wasting tactics aren't worthwhile and it would take the subjective nature out of referees adding more time when big clubs need a goal etc.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Other week v Brighton with us,8 minutes added on we scored in the 2nd minute of injury time,the clock was on 103 minutes when he blew,they always find a little extra when we are under the cosh I've noticed,time added on for corners,long throws,however when the boot is on the other foot the time added on is often halved or reduced considerably,no time given for a last Everton corner too,get that whistle blown ref or Dickie M will have a fit

 

[b-rad]

….apparently there’s a ‘new rule’ to award a corner kick if the goalkeeper is obviously wasting time.

Only if they hold it in their hands, with no opposing players interfering, for more than 8(?) seconds.

Do such ruling for a goal kick - that time should all be accounted for in added time, or punished with a yellow card for time wasting.

 

[Jacko93]

Why not just play 90 minutes of football and if a player goes down, you drag their sorry little arses off the pitch until they can walk again.