Added on Time

In the whole history of the game it has never been 45 minutes of ball in play action per half.

This is absolute nonsense and will lead to injuries. It really will. It is going too far.

They need to rethink it. Maybe do a rugby and take the timing away from the ref, have the clock stop when the ball isn’t in play, and have thirty or thirty five minute halves or something.

 

Another bonkers development in a sport so far up it's own arse it can't see where it is heading. The idiotic logic here is ' score a goal - don't celebrate or 2 minutes are added on.' Let's get back to the 30's when goals are scored - a firm handshake, re-set the Brylcream and off we go again.

Football at Oakwell can be dire enough with finishing at 10.30pm.

 

Here's a radical idea, probably a load of old codswallop but...

Instead of booking players for timewasting and adding the time on, why not award a penalty against a team that clocks up 10 minutes of wasted time in a half? It would certainly stop teams that are winning by 1 goal with 5 minutes left from taking the mickey - and taking the yellow card....

 

There will always be a problem as long as fans, commentators etc show a reverence for "dark arts" and "sh**housery".
Stamp it out. Stop bleating about the downsides to doing so. Make the consequences of cheating so dire that clubs and players realise they'll be worse off for doing it. If it takes a couple of seasons to sink in, so be it.
The trouble is, as has been said above, the authorities won't have the resolve to see it through.

 

For ****’s sake, it’s an extra 5 minutes each half. Where it was once 3-5 it’s now 8-10. I’m sure the precious /little overpaid darlings can manage that. If they weren’t wasting time during the game, there’d be nothing to add on. It’s about time they started enforcing the rules. They need to properly start punishing diving next. I’m guessing by the amount of Reds players already booked for dissent, the referee’s are going to clamp down on players surrounding officials. At one point last season Shrewsbury had 3 or 4 round the referee and one in the face of each linesman.