That when our scoreboard shows that the 90 minutes are up and the assistant on the touchline holds the board up showing how much extra time is to be played, why that's not shown on the scoreboard. As part of the Junior takeover day yesterday , my son and grandson were in the media centre as our Ollie was the Matchday announcer, so it offered my son the opportunity to ask why the extra time remaining is not counted down. He was told, that it's because the FA issued a directive , that irrespective of the time to be added on, extra time is purely at the discretion of the match officials. For example, if the board is held up to show an extra four minutes to play and the game goes beyond that time due to any additional stoppages, by not showing the time on the scoreboard , in the FA's eyes, it minimises the level of abuse from the crowd that the referee and his assistants might be subjected to. Whilst on the subject of referees, the man in the middle on Monday against Plymouth Argyle, is Kevin Johnson, who I recall, allowed a controversial goal for Oxford United in our game in January and he also gave Jacob Brown his marching orders for what he deemed to be a reckless tackle during our win away to Southend United in March.
It’s now Stephen Martin, late change, not been informed why. We had Stephen against Coventry the other week. Junior Takeover Day video will be online tomorrow. They were all amazing and a pleasure to have with us.
Thanks for that . Look forward to seeing the video. Junior takeover day is an excellent concept, as it allows our young supporters to see first hand what happens behind the scenes and in my grandsons case, the experience is certainly one of the best days in his young life yet. My son said he had never appreciated before yesterday, how hard the Clubs staff work to enhance the matchday experience. Yesterday was probably the hottest day I had ever experienced in the thirty two years I've been supporting the Reds. It was a glorious day made all the better, by getting all three points.
Phew!! Apologies to the Lads I sat with on Saturday. I thought the Clown referring that game was Johnson. Biut it was a different clown.
I cannot see why Football could not use an independent timekeeper like they do in rugby. When the ball goes dead , for whatever reason , he would stop the clock and start it again upon restart. This would take the responsibility from the ref and thus avoid abuse.
If you did that everytime the ball the went dead it could take 2 hours to play the game. I'm sure I have read that the ball is often only in play between 60-65 mins in most games. I think a trial of this was actually proposed at one point setting the game time at around a hour.
I tend to agree and then at the end of each half once time is up play until the ball goes dead. Can't see why it wouldn't work really.
We used to do in the early days of the scoreboard. It seemed to stop after a game against Stoke, when the visitors scored an equaliser to make it 3-3 after the injury time had long since counted down. Kettle gave them a penalty. There was hell on. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7157274.stm
Surely not stopped for a dead ball? I’ve laiked and watched football for 40 odd years and never knew that. Amazeballs as these eggteeth say these days
For time added on the match clock should be shown and be stopped every time play stops. This way it would make it irrelevant for players to go down playing injured or for a player to walk off at a snails pace after being subbed.
That's far too sensible an idea! I believe septic blatter rules that out because he thought it would add too much time on!!! Hahaha
