Time wasting

[waspish]

What absolutely annoys me about time wasting is the team that time wasted for 90mins get the extra minutes at the end of the game if there is only one goal in it!

 

[halfcenturyup]

Do refs use a stopwatch. If they don't how do they know how much time to add.

They used to do that thing where they held up their hands like they were stopping a wristwatch, but I doubt they ever used one properly.

As for how much time they add? How many minutes the red shirts need, I think.

 

[danielwood5]

Great article.

The Definitive Guide to Premier League Time-Wasting | Opta Analyst

To the losing team, it’s time-wasting. To those leading, it’s game management. But there's one thing that's not in doubt: it's getting worse.

theanalyst.com

The article only covers time wasted for throw ins and free kicks and all that usual stuff. It doesn't even cover Arsenal's constant fake injuries for a quick tactical break.

 

[crazyg]

Game management is not time wasting, as the ball is in play. It's up to the opposition to get the ball back and do something with it.
City are masters at this.

 

[Stephen230]

The one that really boils my piss is the keepers falling to the floor and curling up in a ball everytime they catch the thing
See Pickford and ramsdale the main culprits

The falling over in itself isn’t the problem. It’s the complete ignoring of the law that states the goalkeeper has six seconds to release the ball.

It’s so easy to solve aswell. Let the clubs know that referees are under instruction to start applying the law. Give a couple of free kicks in the first week ( assuming the warning hasn’t done the trick ) and the problem will go away.

 

[BlueHammer85]

stop watch clock for time wasting, have it there next to the real time , all gets added on with extra time.

teams/players would stop doing it

 

[jaseisblue]

Look at Jesus I'm the arsenal games.
Goes down on the touchline.
Rolls around.
Nearly off the pitch rolled the other way so he was on the pitch.
The amount of time the arsenal players literally just sit down is pathetic

Watched a couple of Arse games, they are blatant with it. Whenever the opposition get a bit of ascendancy they do it to break up the flow. Shithousery of the highest order. That’s coached into them, and as you say Jesus realised where he’d dropped and rolled back on the pitch the twunt.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

My mate was at the Newcastle v Arse game and he said Arsenal were taking the piss with their time wasting and breaking up play.

How they keep getting away with it is beyond me... Oh, no, hang on... PiGMOL

 

[bluenova]

My mate was at the Newcastle v Arse game and he said Arsenal were taking the piss with their time wasting and breaking up play.

How they keep getting away with it is beyond me... Oh, no, hang on... PiGMOL

To be fair - Newcastle have been one of the worst offenders this season.

Arsenal's dodgy time outs are annoying, but I suspect that the Newcastle shenanigans were in part because they got the same at the Emirates.

 

[jaseisblue]

The falling over in itself isn’t the problem. It’s the complete ignoring of the law that states the goalkeeper has six seconds to release the ball.

It’s so easy to solve aswell. Let the clubs know that referees are under instruction to start applying the law. Give a couple of free kicks in the first week ( assuming the warning hasn’t done the trick ) and the problem will go away.

Make an example of Ederson first you mean