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Players time wasting

Ted Lassos Tache said:
IMO stopping the clock would make the issue worse, if the time wasting intention is to stop momentum.

Will turn into American football and timeouts
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Time wasting isn't to stop momentum. It's to stop time in play so the clock runs down and the opposing side doesn't have that time to score.

Every game has a different amount of in play time and teams shouldn't be able to dictate that to suit them.

Kicking the ball out of play is within the rules. Timewasting isn't.
 
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Hep said:
Hence why interest in top-level football is struggling, paying a fortune for a ticket or a subscription to watch 38 mins of the ball being in play is very poor value.
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The fact that PL ticket sales are booming proves uouo point wrong
 
I've noticed that straight after a goalie is given a yellow card for time-wasting the keeper quite often takes the liberty of another lengthy spell to get the ball back into play. (Possibly safe in the knowledge that their punishment for the offence has been dished out). I would like to see a ref have the balls to dish out a subsequent red card when this happens - would soon cut out time-wasting antics.
 
Johnny on the spot said:
I've noticed that straight after a goalie is given a yellow card for time-wasting the keeper quite often takes the liberty of another lengthy spell to get the ball back into play. (Possibly safe in the knowledge that their punishment for the offence has been dished out). I would like to see a ref have the balls to dish out a subsequent red card when this happens - would soon cut out time-wasting antics.
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Of course if the first time they did this was against us everybody would be fine about it!!!


Ref would get absolutely slaughtered by the very people asking him to do it
 
Let’s be honest, time wasting / cheating along with a number of other factors is making the game unbearable to watch.

I think football is now at the tipping point where the constant cheating, rule changes and financial doping mean it’ll start to decline in popularity.
 
Matnab said:
That's a bit cynical there pal. Next time a Sunderland player gets booked for timewasting the board will be flooded with posts saying how refreshing it is to see referees clamping down on timewasting.
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Aye I can’t see anyone pointing to a incident involving other sides not been booked, they will just be happy a red has taken action!!
 
1879 said:
I think football is now at the tipping point where the constant cheating, rule changes and financial doping mean it’ll start to decline in popularity.
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i agree with this and i've said it for a few years. every move the football establishment makes is for the benefit of TV audiences and subsequent media frenzy over every incident in every game. clcikbait articles about which ex-footballer said what about certain games/clubs/players, transfer business speculation, diving and cheating, poor referees, the absurdity of VAR and the insistence by those in the media that its good for the game, time wasting, inconvenient kick off times.... the list is endless...

but one thing that never gets a thought in all this is the actual match going fans.

the time wasting by players, the breaks in play, VAR, diving, constant stop start, feigning injuries... it all just makes it even shitter for the fans at the ground... there will be a tipping point where people start to not bother going as much, or not being as up for the game, not celebrating goals properly and the generational ties of grandfather - dad - son - grandson going to games over decades will be broken and once thats gone, it'll never return

I know we haven't got VAR yet at sunderland but i've been noticing loads in the past few seasons how much time we spend at the stadium, 40,000 of us, just watching a player decide to sit down on the grass during the game, pretend he's hurt, have the game stopped, physios run over, waste a few minutes, stand up and pretend to hobble and wince in pain, then run it off like real warrior. i don't spend my hard earned money and limited free time to go to the ground to watch grown men do this several times every game.. i want to watch football.

i think my days of following sunderland home and away for decades will come to an abrupt halt one day when i finally snap and run onto the field when a player is feigning injury and volley the bastard straight in the face then chin the ref
 
Stormo said:
I’d love to see a keeper given a yellow for time wasting. Then another when he continues to do it.
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Biggest joke going booking keeper for time wasting, ref stops the game, walks from halfway line to penalty box to wave a yellow card, walks back, blows his whistle, and keeper promptly decides to reposition the ball for the goal kick, just wastes more time.
how about time wasting incurring a mandatory 2 minutes extension to the game in addition to stoppage time awarded by ref.
 
I'm assuming for this clampdown to work that all neutrals watching would need to be in agreement about whether time wasting had taken place? I mean one man's 'time wasting' would definitely be another man's 'taking their time and not rushing'.

Let's say you get 100 neutrals to watch a goalkeeper who's team are 1-0 up with 15 minutes to go take a goal kick. The keeper walks to retrieve the ball, walks to place the ball down, takes some slow steps back, stops, looks upfield for 3 seconds and then takes his goal kick. He's clearly in no hurry but he's not being ridiculous either. I reckon you'd get 50/50 of the neutral observers giving a yellow. This is why refs are reluctant to book for timewasting. They have no guidance so they stick to the absolutely blatant ones.
 
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