It’s not the reason we lost to Brighton or Watford, before anyone tries to derail things, but timekeeping in matches by officials is ridiculous now.
Saturday was a case in point - all that time wasting, and players going down, and goals, and substitutes, resulted in just four minutes at the end of the game. First half was arguably even worse - just two minutes despite a goal and two injuries. Holebas alone was down for longer than two minutes.
Referees continually point to their watch, but it’s clearly a meaningless gesture. As is booking a goalkeeper for time wasting in stoppage time. It’s absolutely pointless, but ticks assessor boxes I guess.
Referees are clearly incapable of doing it properly, so why can’t it be done independently, like more or less every other sport? It’s not hard to stop a clock when there are subs and stoppages and so on.
When that idea of 60-minute matches with stopping clocks was raised, it was largely mocked, but I’m all for it - we would see more football than we do now, where every set-piece takes an age.
Saturday was a case in point - all that time wasting, and players going down, and goals, and substitutes, resulted in just four minutes at the end of the game. First half was arguably even worse - just two minutes despite a goal and two injuries. Holebas alone was down for longer than two minutes.
Referees continually point to their watch, but it’s clearly a meaningless gesture. As is booking a goalkeeper for time wasting in stoppage time. It’s absolutely pointless, but ticks assessor boxes I guess.
Referees are clearly incapable of doing it properly, so why can’t it be done independently, like more or less every other sport? It’s not hard to stop a clock when there are subs and stoppages and so on.
When that idea of 60-minute matches with stopping clocks was raised, it was largely mocked, but I’m all for it - we would see more football than we do now, where every set-piece takes an age.
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