The only way I see it is by the clock stopping whenever the ball is out of play… especially since refs have already given up on punishments for time wasting etc
I’d be all for the clock stopping when out of play by the way
Time-wasting would all but disappear if all the perpetrators were doing was breaking up the tempo of the game, not running down the clock.
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That’d be ludicrous.
The average a ball is in play is about 57mins, you’d have 3 hour long games every game, more injuries. Be shit.
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Stop the clock for injuries, substitutions, blatant time wasting and cards. As simple as that. Then blow the whistle when the clock gets to 45 and 90 minutes. No need for added time at all. No more Fergie time. Huge hooter…game over.
Why leave timing to the discretion of a referee when it absolutely doesn’t need to be?
That’s more reasonable, but restarting the clock after every throw, goal kick, corner and any other time a ball would go out of play would be absurd.
Then we have to bring in a seperate rule after how long of the above do you allow a side before you start adding the time waste?
For instance when a keeper is taking an age to take a goal kick, then you stop the clock and you go and warn him. You tell him to get on with it and restart the clock…no reward for timewasting. No long slow walks at substitutions as nothing to be gained…
Most of the bullshit would likely stop once players know there’s no advantage to doing it. Coaches won’t want games going on too long.
It’s the general culture of acceptance of gamesmanship and flat out cheating that needs changing, at the minute it’s ‘all just part of the game’ and it shouldn’t be.
Sorry, why would it be absurd? That is done in almost every other sport.
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Wolves wouldn’t score in a whore house.
Doesn’t happen in rugby or hockey if the ball goes out unless undue timewasting involved…no need to stop clock for ball out of play. That isn’t the problem.
Outshooting Spurs 14-4 but only 2-1 on goal says it all
It really doesn’t. This is traditionally how time keeping is done in the US and you still see all the same shit from over matched teams and constant arguments between the ref and players about whether the ref has stopped the clock.
More to the point, as we’ve seen this season, the refs already have the tools to account for time wasting and whether they keep time on their wrist watch or the stadium clock they still need to recognize the behaviors and respond to them. But even then, effectively managing it is more about not granting the breaks in play as it is stopping the clock for them as the benefit is as much about trying to break up momentum as it is time wasting, which is why you still it even with transparent time keeping
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True, it would not eliminate it, but it would make time far more transparent. A few delay of game rulings helps the other stuff along. But then people might expect crazy things like calling obvious holding on corners, etc.
Wolves been worse since making changes
My recurring nightmare is hearing in my dreams whiny midwestern accents yelling “Sir! Sir! Stop the clock! The clock is still running! SIR!”
Only others sports I watch areTennis and Boxing where it’s a non factor so I don’t really care about others sports.
Thought boxing had strictly timed rounds and clock stopped by referee for blood etc
The relevance of other sports is simply the stupid arguments made in football about it being different, or too complex for a referee to manage the clock. It is somehow deemed it impossible for a paid professional crew overseeing a slow-paced game like football, when it is routinely done by single amateur referees in basketball or ice hockey.
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What a goal
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