Time wasting

[I'm With Stupid]

Fascinating. Shows our eyes don't lie. It also begs the question of how Eddie got booked for timewasting after 33 minutes of a game. Bent doesn't begin to cover it.

Yep it mentions that Guaita for Crystal Palace took an average of 63 seconds to take a goal kick against Newcastle and took over 10 minutes in total. I just checked. Did he get a yellow card? Did he fuck.

 

[khoitnm]

We also do time wasting, don't we?
So I guess what we are complaining about here is not the team who apply time wasting, but about the rule about it?!
As long as it's inside the rule, teams still take advantage of it.

 

[Gingers Dad]

It's entirely up to the refs to add on an appropriate amount of time like in the World Cup. Either that or take the timekeeping out of the refs hands and just stop the clock when needed.

 

[threadkiller]

It's entirely up to the refs to add on an appropriate amount of time like in the World Cup. Either that or take the timekeeping out of the refs hands and just stop the clock when needed.

Even that wouldn't solve the issue. Like a previous poster says, if the intention is to break up the attacking trams momentum, there will still be plenty of time wasting.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Even that wouldn't solve the issue. Like a previous poster says, if the intention is to break up the attacking trams momentum, there will still be plenty of time wasting.

Yep,them those attacking trams can really go off the rails at times!

 

[Bluesince1979]

Actually it’s bordering on cheating. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a sign from legohead for one of the players to go down so he can get some coaching in.

Cant remembwr who arse played a few weeks back but the goaly went down with ‘something in his eye’. Its was pathetic. He just sat down and signalled he had summat in his mincers.
Cue legohead conducting a team huddle.

Same with ‘head injuries’. Teams know the ref has to stop play.

Against leeds we had the chance to take a quick free kick and half their team were stood on the side talking to fat sam about the best carvereys near leeds

 

[Scottish Cityzen]

We also do time wasting, don't we?
So I guess what we are complaining about here is not the team who apply time wasting, but about the rule about it?!
As long as it's inside the rule, teams still take advantage of it.

I’d suggest we do ‘game management’ more. As per Saturday we take short corners and seek to win 3/4/5 in quick succession. We don’t actually take a huge amount of time to restart each.

That was an excellent article, this bit made me angry;

You genuinely would have had enough time to put the kettle on while watching Everton taking throw-ins against Manchester City on New Year’s Eve. The Toffees took an incredible 51 seconds per throw in their 1-1 draw against Pep Guardiola’s side.

Let’s smash these cheating pricks next week.

 

[bluetonium]

"The ‘shortest’ game of the Premier League season so far was Leeds United’s 2-2 home draw against West Ham in January. The ball was in play for just 42 minutes and 12 seconds of play – or 42.3% of available match time. Spectators at Elland Road didn’t even get to watch one half of football, let alone two.

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You genuinely would have had enough time to put the kettle on while watching Everton taking throw-ins against Manchester City on New Year’s Eve. The Toffees took an incredible 51 seconds per throw in their 1-1 draw against Pep Guardiola’s side."

Needs addressing. Remind referees and players that you can be booked for time wasting even if the first minute, non head injuries should be treated off field if safe to do so or very near to the edge, play acting is disrespectful to colleagues and teammates who may actually be injured, and in an era when us paying fans are expected to cough up more and more season on season (in the midst of a financial crisis where many are facing tough choices over food and housing bills, let alone how they can afford to show their support), that pushing it to the extremes of not even seeing the ball in play for 45mins is akin to us purchasing a product not fit for purpose that, regardless of whether you win, lose or draw, is not giving the very basic principle of football of watching a full game of sport.

Plus none of that even mentions the time from waiting on var decisions.

I'd even go to the extreme of invoking fair play penalties. Have the ball in play less that 55 mins over a season and get a points reduction. Does that disadvantage the poorer teams? Maybe, but so what. This is a spectator sport for most and about time we were put first.

 

[give it to gordon]

The premier league announced after the WC it wouldn't be following the new guidelines. Think I heard somewhere that it would cause chaos to the tv schedule !

Premier League to reject FIFA World Cup rule and stick with own guidance to refs

The 2022 World Cup saw referees follow a new directive from FIFA, but the Premier League has no apparent plans to follow suit when the domestic competition returns

www.mirror.co.uk

The pl told us it was going to carry on cheating ages ago.

I dont remember the press/media calling out. Fans paying 70 quid plus to watch less and less football. Some clubs are really taking the piss out of fans. Cant think of any other job when you can get away with that much skiving in broad daylight

 

[Crouchinho]

I remember back in the day my mates old man complaining about time wasting in the corner. This was going back 30 years. He said they should be kicked up in the air. Prior to that players would hoof the ball back to their goalie from the halfway line and he'd hold it for X amount of time too.

When Jose did it to to Celtic and repeated the same shit when we played Chelsea I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It went to new levels of time wasting. Extra ten seconds for a throw, extra ten retrieving the ball, extra 20 seconds getting up etc.

A few seasons back I had complained about a slippery slope I was noticing with players clutching the face after a ball struck them. Whether it was a header or not. Now players are hitting the deck if it hits them on the side, back or even the legs. Its way out of control. Plus they've incorporated every Jose tactic ever used for time wasting.

Every club has been guilty of it this season in one way shape or form. My Milan mate was taking the piss out of the English league the other day for saying it spends more time stopping and starting. When an Italian takes the piss, considering their game is a methodical slow and a rigid style something is terribly wrong

Sky can only use their propaganda so long about being the best in the world but I feel sorry for the fans who turn up and only see 50 minutes of football, and maybe a goal chalked off by some dipshit in the VAR box with his small dicky