IFAB plans to end time-wasting.

[domalino]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/plans-to-end-time-wasting-v9m6n3s9j

Football’s law-makers are to investigate new measures to increase playing time in matches because of growing concerns over time-wasting and lengthy delays for set pieces during games.

Cardiff City’s match against Burnley on Sunday established a five-year low for playing time in a Premier League match — the ball was in play for only 42min 2sec. More than eight minutes were spent waiting for Sean Morrison, the Cardiff centre back, to take long throw-ins.

Increasing the amount of playing time is one of the main thrusts of the “Play Fair” strategy that is being considered by the International FA Board (Ifab). An Ifab source said that “a number of new ideas” were under discussion about improving playing time. Measures that could be explored include for the referee to stop his watch from the time a throw-in, corner or goalkick is conceded until it is actually taken. One previous proposal had been for a stadium clock to measure 60 minutes of actual playing time, but that has failed to gain support.​

This would be great news for us and our style of play. Potentially bad for exaggerating the gap between wealthy and poor sides.

 

[Gazza]

Football works OK as it is - leave it alone.

 

[kaz7]

About time they did something,mind you if the ref used their exsisting powers to book every time waster we would be half way there already

 

[domalino]

Football works OK as it is - leave it alone.

If the amount of time that football is being played in a 90 minute match keeps on falling then clearly it's not working OK, is it?

 

[pudge]

Just book offenders the first time and they won't do it again. It really is that simple.

Referees allowing players to do it until the 80th minute on is ridiculous and not some weird "law".

 

[Machiavelli]

Stadium clock that stops when the ball is out of play. It’s pretty fucking simple really.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

In that Cardiff example, it would be interesting if they could also show how many times the football touched the grass.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Hallelujah!! This is probably the single most annoying aspect of any game at The Etihad over the last five seasons. It is laughable for an international sport to be officiated where every game, apparently ninety minutes long, two equal halves of 45 mins, is of a differing length. There should be 'ball in play' time so that every game is of equal(ish) length and we can do away with once and for all the outrageous nonsense at the end where the paying public, having had three or four minutes shaved off the game by wastrel opposition defenders taking throwings, and the most blatant timewasting goalkeepers, can hear that the fourth official indicates an additional time that nowhere equates with the time pissed up the wall by cheats and compliant refs. There should not be the slightest advantage to any side in delaying the restart. I would go even further and suggest that if a team did not deliver the ball into play quickly enough they should lose the throw in, corner, goal kick or free kick. I can think of nothing better than penalising some of the shitehawks taking a goalkick by pointing to the corner flag! And where a team is over-celebrating a goal then they should know that the LotG allow the conceding team to kick off if the team scoring aren't in their own half! I've mentioned this before on this forum - if a player removes his shirt after scoring a goal in the first minute he will be carded, why is a goalkeeper not carded for time wasting until something like the last ten minutes of a game?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

In that Cardiff example, it would be interesting if they could also show how many times the football touched the grass.

That would be the 00:02 of the 42:02!

 

[oldtimerdiscopants]

Stadium clock that stops when the ball is out of play. It’s pretty fucking simple really.

Play the 90 minutes as you say stop the clock that everyone can see and have it transparent.