Time added on

[Man_City_Loyal]

shocked he called it secs after it hit 90 mins

 

[meltonblue]

shocked he called it secs after it hit 90 mins

In a good way? :)

 

[pee dubya]

They just make it up. Always have done, always will until there's an official clock stopping.

 

[NZBlue]

In a good way? :)

Unless you had a bet on it finishing 2 -7

(I didn't)

 

[Eds]

Coventry 4 up against Maidstone, three minutes added on, Southampton, 3 up against Watford, five minutes added on, Leicester 3 up against Birmingham, four minutes added on, Bournemouth 5 up against Swansea at half time, 5 minutes added on, only one in the second half though, five up against Huddersfield we had four minutes added on, Coventry 6-2 up against Oxford eight minutes added on. These are all examples from this season’s FA Cup. They make it up as they go along not just in this competition but in all games. Just like they think it’s ok for some games to have VAR but not others. Same competition but different laws dependent on where the game is played, that can’t be right yet nobody says anything.

 

[Chris in London]

The injury time when we need to score and the opposition doesn't is based on one game.

You are using very small numbers and there is no statistical significance due to it, and ignored all multiple variables and zero benchmark comparisons.

Of course the lower the sample size the more cautious you need to be about extrapolating from that, but it is just wrong to say there can never be any significance in low sample sizes. If your wife falls off the hotel balcony and dies on your honeymoon, that is very sad. If your second wife also falls off the hotel balcony and dies on your second honeymoon, that suggests a pattern.

It depends entirely on context. If you are conducting an opinion poll on voting intentions, a sample of fifteen respondents is a very small number on which to base any assessment. If you are looking at what is happening to one team during a 38 game season, 15 games is not a bad sample size at all.

But if you want to look at the time added on during the earlier part of the season, fill your boots. I don't have the time. What I will say is what I've already said - those who have suspected that less time is added on when we are chasing a win are right. You can reject any suggestion that this is deliberate, or otherwise argue about the reasons for that all you like, but the numbers don't lie.

 

[RobinHood]

Unless you had a bet on it finishing 2 -7

(I didn't)

Or even us scoring 7, or a combination of other bets coming in.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Either apply it equally and fairly across the board or don't bother.

 

[paulchapo]

It's an odd one the lack of time added on last night but to be fair to Taylor both clubs were probably pleased with it. Luton weren't getting back in the game it was well won.

The only other occasion I thought a ref blew up earlier than he should was Oliver in the Villa game and I was very grateful he did.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

At Bournemouth on Saturday, I was surprised only six minutes were added after all the subs, then there was a further delay due to a possible head injury which is why six became eight. It was a very long eight minutes!

I'd like a rule where if a team like these who have wasted time constantly,but are only one goal behind coming into 90 mins, then the other team get offered the chance to either play the added time or no time at all. It really doesn't seem fair that a team who have offered nothing in a game get a punchers chance for 10 minutes or so.