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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2011 23:15:39 GMT -5
From what I remember, it depends on the match and the referee. International matches have a 4th official. He can assist in keeping track of stoppage time. Some referees will carry an additional stopwatch to keep track of stoppage time. Some of the fancier wrist watches have a feature to help keep track of stoppage time. Lastly, some referees just kind of guesstimate. They look at their watch when a stoppage begins and ends and guess. At lower levels, the referee instructors will tell you to just stop your watch and that's the easiest way to add time. I have never been completely sure of why that is not just the norm. It probably goes back to, "That's the way its always been done" mentality. The NCAA stops the clock for all cautions/ejections, goals and penalty kicks (High School too I believe). I think there is also a clock-stoppage for subs in the last 5 minutes of the game. Thank you for your question. 5 cents please. Instead of making the referee hassle with figuring out how much time needs to be added at the end of the half, why not put a rule into place that allows the clock to stop for scores, injuries, and other delays? It seems to me that if a game were to be held up by lightning or some other event that causes a lengthy delay, the clock would keep running and more "injury time" would be added... Well they didn't stop the clock during the power outage of the Canada/Nigeria game.
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Post by timdaye on Jul 14, 2011 13:53:12 GMT -5
All I can tell you guys is what I have already said. FIFA run by arrogant, stodgy old men who have the "this is how we've always done it" mentality. All they are really good at, allegedly, is taking bribes and gettin' with hookers. All of the suggestions about stopping the clock for goals, injuries etc. make sense. Which is exactly why FIFA will not adopt them.
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