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Football (soccer), is not an exact game, on purpose, the rules empower the referee to make judgement calls in order to encourage the "flow" of the game, to make
by tj-teej 8y ago
Football (soccer), is not an exact game, on purpose, the rules empower the referee to make judgement calls in order to encourage the "flow" of the game, to make it a "good" game.
The explicit rule of "stoppage time" is that the referee adds time on to the end of the match to makeup for time lost to stoppages (e.g. time spent on injuries, goal celebrations, etc).
But for example, if a game is spiraling out of control and every stoppage of play is elongated by fighting between the players, the ref may decide not to add on any time and to end the game right at 90. This seems backwards to a lot of American's used to by-the-book sports, but that's the spirit of Football.
A more concrete and common example is the Advantage rule, if (in the referee's mind), stopping play for a foul will hurt the team which was fouled, they will acknowledge that it happened but not stop play, throwing their arms forward and yelling "Advantage".
- segmondy 8y agosoccer is a rubbish game, at the world cup level. I stopped watching because in the world cups, the referee's often call against the African teams. They also call on behalf of certain teams that are expected to win, but the call against African teams is ridiculous.
- filleduchaos 8y agoYou seem to have gone in with a chip already on your shoulder, so I suppose it's no great loss that you think it's "rubbish". Full disclosure: I'm Nigerian and have followed this world cup avidly, paying enough attention to note that a pretty even distribution of teams has been well or hard done by VAR and the referee.
- segmondy 8y agoRight, can you tell me why Nigeria didn't get awarded the penalty kick?
- izacus 8y agoBlaming referees for loses is a time honoured tradition of any kind of football fan all over the world. I think I've never seen a loss that wouldn't be blamed on a referee at some point. Thanks for continuing the tradition :)
- soared 8y agoAnother example is that the if the ref has ~20 seconds left in stoppage time, but the winning team has an offensive corner kick, the ref will just end the game. The last seconds have no impact on the result, but would come up as an inaccuracy in this study.
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- vfinn 8y agoHave to disagree up to a point. There's nothing good about players playing time at the end of the game by laying on the field "injured" and walking away from the field as if they had concrete around their feet. The flow of the game will be in this case very bad and should not be awarded. If they stopped the clock every time the game is on hold, this kind of nonsense would be significantly less frequent.