City Raider said:
I've now had it explained to me this way, see if it makes sense to you guys...(bear with me)
Basically the confusion is because the ref's watch and the Sky in picture clock go out of sync.
If you imagine there is 4 minutes injury time when Bellamy scores - the ref effectively stops his watch during Bellamy's celebrations, however the Sky clock keeps running. Therefore when the ref starts his watch again at kick-off it is still showing 4 minutes to play - however the sky clock is now on 91 minutes because it kept running during the celebration.
Add the 4 minutes to 91 minutes on Sky clock, plus 30 secs for substitution - you get your 95mins and 30 seconds or so.
Owen scores, the ref stops his watch again - there is only a few seconds left to play when he re-starts.
My sense of injustice has gone, though where the original 4 minutes came from God only knows. However Monty is right, we can't get involved in that debate.
Hope it makes sense.
Thats an easy cop out. Sky run the clock as anyone would, Bellamy scores and the board had already been put up meaning that the time is still correct. Even Hughes has commented on it in the fact that we played near 7mins more than the 90mins when 4 mins was shown. Are you saying there was 3mins where the ref had his watch stopped? if so why? Does that mean my watch, Hughes watch and every other person watching the games watch was wrong?
I was out before and could hear two rags talking about this, they were both saying the free kick shouldnt have been one but they also were saying that the extra time was a joke.