13 minutes wasted on goal kicks


How can he see when a player has come off, bearing in mind they can leave anywhere on the pitch.

The law isn’t designed to be enforced to the letter. Pretty sure the law even says if the keeper looks like he’s about to release the ball then it’s fine if it goes over. Maybe we should go back to enforcing it strictly. Mind Patto is terrible for this when we’re winning
Hockey and both rugby codes manage it. The off coming player would have to leave the pitch where the on coming player was entering.
 
:lol: I was willing the bugger to do it the other day mind.

i've absolutely no problem with him claiming corners like a the colossus that he is, and keeping the ball close to his chest till the box has cleared, take as much time as the ref allows, then boot the fucker up field . this lying down on your front is embarrassing though, from a psychological perspective. it shows weakness in my opinion. just like pretending to be injured shows weakness of mind. in the old days and in most other sports, you'd pretend not to be injured, you'd act like you weren't scared of the opposition, didn't need to waste time or cheat. just beat them at the actual game that your playing
 
aye but it would absolutely destroy the flow of the game, the pressure, the atmosphere, the pace of the game, the excitement and the drama and the very essence of the game, the way it ebbs and flows and crowd follow.... along with VAR, it would kill that off further... you'd be regularly having 5 or 6 minute stoppages in play and there'd be fuck all the ref could do about it. if a manager needs to regroup the players just stop the clock, go and get a drink and have a team talk and stop the momentum of the game. it would be absolutely dire for the fans in the ground, theres no way you'd end up with a boiling hot atmosphere bubbling over every time sunderland got the ball forward, the opposition would just decide to have a stoppage for a few minutes whilst the crowd fizzled out

before long the TV companies will be having adverts during these stoppages, people will start going down for snacks and toilet breaks and before we know it its sanitised even further. it will be unrecognisable.

every time a goal is scored the crowd don't celebrate until a 3 or 4 minute VAR check is complete, the game kicks off, then a player tactically decides to be injured, stop again for 3 or 4 minutes.

aye great, might get to the pub by 8pm on a saturday. it will be boring as fuck
Stop the clock every time the ball is out of play, you have a set number of seconds to get it going again depending on the situation or its a card.

Keeper has 25 seconds for a goal kick, 20 seconds for a team to take a throw in etc.

Not sure where 5-6 minute stoppages would come from if that was introduced?
 
One rule that is a time-wasting paradise for goalkeepers is when the ball goes out of play for a goal-kick and they then saunter to the opposite side of the goal (from which the ball went out) to take the goal-kick.

There was a time when it had to be taken from the side it went out but the rule was changed a number of years ago. No one I have spoken to (including some former and current match officials) have been able to give me the reason/s why the law was changed. Bottom line is it should revert back to the previous rule in my opinion.

I am convinced the laws of football will be changed to ensure more accurate time is added-on at the end of the game. In years to come when supporters look back at what has happened over the last few decades they will shake their heads in disbelief at the fact that supporters were paying good money to effectively see half a game due to the ball not being in play. It will be along similar lines to us looking back now at playing matches before any substitutes were allowed. Crazy!
The reason it was introduced was because the powers that be (who were as big fools then as the current ones are) thought it would speed up the game because a team in a hurry could take the kick faster if they didn't have to move the extra few yards to the other side of goal.

It didn't occur to them that the time wasted by a team not in a hurry would be far greater than the time saved.
 
Eh? It is in the rules they can book for excessive timewasting or unsportsman conduct but never do.

Saddest things is its crept right into bairns footy. Players telling keeper to stay down etc etc. shite.
You show me that rule as it's written. It's not a very explicit. It's a very vague guideline, open to interpretation, and therefore abuse.
Stop the clock every time the ball is out of play, you have a set number of seconds to get it going again depending on the situation or its a card.

Keeper has 25 seconds for a goal kick, 20 seconds for a team to take a throw in etc.

Not sure where 5-6 minute stoppages would come from if that was introduced?
And what about how long it takes them to get the ball. Trotting along the touch line chasing ball boys. The crowd pissing about with it. It's just not that clear cut.
 
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You show me that rule as it's written. It's not a very explicit. It's a very vague guideline, open to interpretation, and therefore abuse.

And what about how long it takes them to get the ball. Trotting along the touch line chasing ball boys. The crowd pissing about with it. It's just not that clear cut.
Ref tells independent time keeper to stop the clock when they’re pissing about
 
Stop the clock every time the ball is out of play, you have a set number of seconds to get it going again depending on the situation or its a card.

Keeper has 25 seconds for a goal kick, 20 seconds for a team to take a throw in etc.

Not sure where 5-6 minute stoppages would come from if that was introduced?

as soon as you introduce a set number of seconds to get it back in play you introduce a) another complication in the time keeping and b) an opportunity for the opposition to kick the ball away, play silly buggers, ball boys act up, crowd not throw the ball back, all sorts of shit. then the red card comes out for the player wanting to take the throw?

why not just have that in the current game, cut out the middle bit of the game timer.

in tonights games, when the ball goes out the team in possession have a set amount of time to get the game going again otherwise the cards start getting dished out? i'd be all for it, as long as it was policed correctly
 
Only when you're losing.

All those things would still happen on a stop watch. The tedium would only be prolonged. There's better ways to prevent it.

Mind I can't recall seeing 3 players take a thrown in very often.

well we weren't losing to Reading after 5 minutes and it got tedious pretty quick.
 
he was taking a good 30 seconds to kick the ball from his hands per time as well. couldn't believe what i was seeing ref just stood and let him do it all game. supposed to be 6 seconds but it never gets inforced, so why have it as a rule :lol:
 
There’s “actual time” and “game time” Can take as long as they want, still have to play the remaining time in the game.
I know that. But time wasting isn't all about wasting time, or rather running down the clock. Fuckin' about on a stop watch to take a goal kick or whatever kills the game in other ways. We want the game hurrying up, not slowing down.
 
Only when you're losing.

All those things would still happen on a stop watch. The tedium would only be prolonged. There's better ways to prevent it.

Mind I can't recall seeing 3 players take a thrown in very often.
Nah I find it tedious whenever it happens. Look forward to the match all week then have it ruined by time wasting antics.
 
he was taking a good 30 seconds to kick the ball from his hands per time as well. couldn't believe what i was seeing ref just stood and let him do it all game. supposed to be 6 seconds but it never gets inforced, so why have it as a rule :lol:
I bet it wasn't 30 second like.
 
I know that. But time wasting isn't all about wasting time, or rather running down the clock. Fuckin' about on a stop watch to take a goal kick or whatever kills the game in other ways. We want the game hurrying up, not slowing down.
The benefit of time wasting is running down time to play in the game. Remove the benefit of time wasting and it’ll become a pointless tactic.
 
Tell you what’s utterly ridiculous as well. Free Kicks around the box. Fannying about with setting the wall in the right place. Whatever happened to being able to take a quick Free Kick whilst the keeper was out of position setting the wall up.
 
The problem with what seems like the obvious easy solution of just handing out yellows asap is that clubs will spread them around. They already do it with cynical/niggly fouls.

Also, even if the keeper was booked on ten minutes for time wasting there is no way that if he does it again the ref is giving a red.

I suppose the FA could just say it’s going to be chaos for a few weeks but after a load of goalkeepers get reds before half time it’s sharp stop.
 

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