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Has the referee forgotten his cards? That's now 3 England players who can consider themselves lucky not to be carded so far...
 
ARF said:
Can't see that anywhere in the LotG 🤔
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Not sure if you are serious on this but I will bite. Nowhere in the lotg says that if the announced added time is "minimum of x minutes" the referee has to play at least x minutes. But he blows a minutes short of x minutes we all say it's wrong.

This is not about lotg. It's about what is expected.
 
Mooseybaby said:
Not sure how Sam Matterface has become ITV's No1 football commentator. We are in the knockout stages and he hadn't even realised there is a multi-ball system in place judging by his comment "Not sure how easy it is to replace the ball as it has a chip". Lee Dixon responded they do have another one :confused:
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To borrow from wrestling vernacular, Matterface is a mark for himself. So long as he’s taking and generating a reaction, he’s on top of the world. In his own mind he’s the best and all the hate proves it. Never mind he’s clueless
 
ARF said:
Yeah, but that doesn't say anything about "minimum of" only being in case there are further stoppages during added time.
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"indicating the minimum amount of additional time the referee intends to play at the end of each half (including extra time)"
 
one said:
Not sure if you are serious on this but I will bite. Nowhere in the lotg says that if the announced added time is "minimum of x minutes" the referee has to play at least x minutes. But he blows a minutes short of x minutes we all say it's wrong.

This is not about lotg. It's about what is expected.
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What 😂
 

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Mooseybaby said:
Has the referee forgotten his cards? That's now 3 England players who can consider themselves lucky not to be carded so far...
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No he is just waiting for someone to roll on the ground before he takes his card out.
 
Max2 said:
"indicating the minimum amount of additional time the referee intends to play at the end of each half (including extra time)"
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Yes, you have correctly quoted law. No, it still doesn't say that it's only the minimum amount of time in case of stoppages during added time.

As @JamesL has already pointed out, if the referee intends to play 2 minutes 30 seconds, then it's a minimum of 2 shown on the board. Just because he plays 30 seconds over the two minutes doesn't mean it's because of a stoppage during those two minutes.
 
ARF said:
What 😂
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Yes fair point and a bad example from me. But the reason additional time is increased is that there has been further added time during added time. It's common sense. There is no reason to announce a time that is less than what is actually accounted for in the half. You are taking the wording in law too literally.

If they announce minimum of two but play three there can only be two reasons within law.

- there actually was three minutes added time during the half but for some reason they announced it as minimum two (non sensical)

- there was added time during added time (which wasn't IMO).
 
one said:
Yes fair point and a bad example from me. But the reason additional time is increased is that there has been further added time during added time. It's common sense. There is no reason to announce a time that is less than what is actually accounted for in the half. You are taking the wording in law too literally.

If they announce minimum of two but play three there can only be two reasons within law.

- there actually was three minutes added time during the half but for some reason they announced it as minimum two (non sensical)

- there was added time during added time (which wasn't IMO).
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How often does time lost equate to an exact whole minute?

Very rarely in my experience

Saying time added on must be a whole minute no more no less is 1) nonsensical and 2) not supported in law
 
In this world cup and top flight matches we expect the match to finish on the minute.

It looked like referee had forgotten.

Fortunate for England. Killed the game. Just before half time - the most morale-damaging time to score ( (c) Liverpool in the 80s)
 
one said:
But he has a point. "Minimum of" is in case there are added time during added time. Was there?
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Err, no it isn't. At this WC they are being told to be accurate on adding time for stoppages. If there are 2 minutes 30 seconds they can't put that on the board, so 2 minutes goes up.
 
I get the partial minute point and although I don't think this was the reason behind it let's go with that theory and that they also follow the law. I don't have any replays as yet. How long exactly, to the second, was added to the first half? If this is less than 3 minutes then I'll find out if Uber Eats delivers humble pie.

(I am going on assumption that there was no significant delays due to goal celebrations as it was pretty short)
 
one said:
I get the partial minute point and although I don't think this was the reason behind it let's go with that theory and that they also follow the law. I don't have any replays as yet. How long exactly, to the second, was added to the first half? If this is less than 3 minutes then I'll find out if Uber Eats delivers humble pie.

(I am going on assumption that there was no significant delays due to goal celebrations as it was pretty short)
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Can't tell you exactly to the second when the referee blew as they were too busy showing a replay of the goal, although the TV clock definitely faded out before it ticked over to 48:00.
 
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