The Footie Thread

[Billysboots]

Had the misfortune of watching Leicester against Roma, my wife being a Leicester fan. What an awful game of football.

Typical Mourinho - Roma take an early lead and then parked the bus. And against a team like Leicester, who carry very little attacking threat, that makes for a turgid game. I swear the second half could have been played without either side having a ‘keeper.

That’s 90 minutes of my life I’m not getting back.

 

[Bdill93]

Burnley away this weekend, should be an interesting game!

We have Burnley twice in the next 3 weeks due to a game being postponed and rearranged (3 hours before KO.. I was actually in the ground already )

Theres no way we take 6 points from them Sorry in advance Everton/ Leeds fans!

 

[Blue in Munich]

 

[Neilds]

Just read an article by Mark Clattenburg about the amount of game management (time wasting!) that goes on nowadays. Apparently the ball has been in play for 55 minutes 3 seconds a game in the Premiership this season, lowest amount ever. It has started a discussion if football needs to go to 60 minute games, with the clock stopping every time the ball is out of play. I think it could be worth a try, maybe not stopping immediately for a throw in but if they take more than 5/6 seconds then stop the clock until the ball is back in play. What are other people's thoughts?

 

[theoneandonly]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522533092506107907

 

[Liverbirdie]

Just read an article by Mark Clattenburg about the amount of game management (time wasting!) that goes on nowadays. Apparently the ball has been in play for 55 minutes 3 seconds a game in the Premiership this season, lowest amount ever. It has started a discussion if football needs to go to 60 minute games, with the clock stopping every time the ball is out of play. I think it could be worth a try, maybe not stopping immediately for a throw in but if they take more than 5/6 seconds then stop the clock until the ball is back in play. What are other people's thoughts?

I wouldnt like it as defined as that, but think there should be the normal 90 minutes plus injury time, but with a minimum time (say 60 or even 70 minutes that the ball must be in play), and if its below that add it to the injury time.

Refs have to start booking teams as soon as it starts and not after 10 warnings - book them for time wasting 20 minutes in if they are taking the pee.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522533092506107907

The ref wasn't great in parts. Bought their play acting however the red card was justified

Naive reaction much like Bellingham before

Players need to learn respect

 

[clubchamp98]

Just read an article by Mark Clattenburg about the amount of game management (time wasting!) that goes on nowadays. Apparently the ball has been in play for 55 minutes 3 seconds a game in the Premiership this season, lowest amount ever. It has started a discussion if football needs to go to 60 minute games, with the clock stopping every time the ball is out of play. I think it could be worth a try, maybe not stopping immediately for a throw in but if they take more than 5/6 seconds then stop the clock until the ball is back in play. What are other people's thoughts?

Has the time a keeper can have the ball in their hands changed?
They seem to take the pee.
That’s up to the ref.

 

[Neilds]

Just read an article by Mark Clattenburg about the amount of game management (time wasting!) that goes on nowadays. Apparently the ball has been in play for 55 minutes 3 seconds a game in the Premiership this season, lowest amount ever. It has started a discussion if football needs to go to 60 minute games, with the clock stopping every time the ball is out of play. I think it could be worth a try, maybe not stopping immediately for a throw in but if they take more than 5/6 seconds then stop the clock until the ball is back in play. What are other people's thoughts?

This is the link to the report on the BBC website. Some of the timings at the bottom made interesting reading, looks like the normal suspects mentioned on here are usually involved in the 'longer' matches
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61342349

Liverbirdie - 70 minutes would be no good as a a benchmark as only 1 game has ever had the ball in play for that long since 2006

 

[Bdill93]

This is the link to the report on the BBC website. Some of the timings at the bottom made interesting reading, looks like the normal suspects mentioned on here are usually involved in the 'longer' matches
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61342349

Liverbirdie - 70 minutes would be no good as a a benchmark as only 1 game has ever had the ball in play for that long since 2006

I read this earlier and was thinking before I even saw the tables that villa would be low down. Cant even put my finger on why other than our insistence on full backs taking throw ins...

Used to make a bit more sense when we had Grealish as he won loads of fouls etc but now I've no idea!

 

[Orikoru]

Has the time a keeper can have the ball in their hands changed?
They seem to take the pee.
That’s up to the ref.

Apparently it's still 6 seconds in the laws of the game, but refs are soft on it. They only tend to blow up if they go 15-20 seconds with it. Even before then they'll get a warning first. You almost never see it actually given.

 

[Orikoru]

This is the link to the report on the BBC website. Some of the timings at the bottom made interesting reading, looks like the normal suspects mentioned on here are usually involved in the 'longer' matches
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61342349

Liverbirdie - 70 minutes would be no good as a a benchmark as only 1 game has ever had the ball in play for that long since 2006

The fact that there have been games with less than 45 minutes of actual play is mind-blowing. Over 50% of the game wasted!? I never would have predicted that, honestly. I wasn't swayed on this argument before, but I now reckon the 60 minutes stop-clock could be a good idea. It's just such a radical change that I wonder if they'd ever seriously consider going for it.

 

[4LEX]

The refs are so bad it's beyond words these days. Pickford wastes on average 30 seconds each time he jumps on the floor. If any side is clearly timewasting, add on a 5 minute time wasting penalty on top of added on time. Things would change in a week. Added time should be 10-15 mins on a regular basis.

Southampton and Everton are the two worst teams for it, if theres any justice the latter will go down. Horrible football team.

 

[Foxholer]

The fact that there have been games with less than 45 minutes of actual play is mind-blowing. Over 50% of the game wasted!? I never would have predicted that, honestly. I wasn't swayed on this argument before, but I now reckon the 60 minutes stop-clock could be a good idea. It's just such a radical change that I wonder if they'd ever seriously consider going for it.

I'm not certain it's 'wasted', so much as 'time not available for play'. Goal kicks, Corners, Throw-ins (Penalties?) and Free Kicks are the obvious culprits, so unless something is done wrt them, there's not a lot that can be done imo.
The Beeb's report is a bit daft in one area though - the 'Time added on' comment. Hard to criticise the Ref for blowing after 2:50 vs 3 Min shown when the TAO board only shows whole minutes! I'm certain Ref would communicated 'to the nearest minute' figure!

 

[Deleted member 1740]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522533092506107907

Very poor. Professional Footballers and Managers can't be making accusations like that. They should fine and ban him for as long as the rules allow.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

The refs are so bad it's beyond words these days. Pickford wastes on average 30 seconds each time he jumps on the floor. If any side is clearly timewasting, add on a 5 minute time wasting penalty on top of added on time. Things would change in a week. Added time should be 10-15 mins on a regular basis.

Southampton and Everton are the two worst teams for it, if theres any justice the latter will go down. Horrible football team.

Wolves were as bad as Everton against us earlier on in the season. It was funny that we scored the winner in the 5 mins of injury time that they wasted.

I get why teams do it and i havent got a problem per se, its the refs who do nothing about it whilst watching them do it i have a problem with.

Allisson taking the mickey out of Pickford was very apt.

 

[ColchesterFC]

I'm not certain it's 'wasted', so much as 'time not available for play'. Goal kicks, Corners, Throw-ins (Penalties?) and Free Kicks are the obvious culprits, so unless something is done wrt them, there's not a lot that can be done imo.
The Beeb's report is a bit daft in one area though - the 'Time added on' comment. Hard to criticise the Ref for blowing after 2:50 vs 3 Min shown when the TAO board only shows whole minutes! I'm certain Ref would communicated 'to the nearest minute' figure!

But it's not the time added on "to the nearest minute", it's "there will be a minimum of X minutes of added time". If it's 2 minutes and 45 seconds the board will show 2 minutes. If it's 3 minutes and 2 seconds the board will show 3 minutes. I'm not suggesting that it would've made any difference to the outcome but if the board shows 3 minutes that's the minimum additional time to be played.

 

[Liverbirdie]

This is the link to the report on the BBC website. Some of the timings at the bottom made interesting reading, looks like the normal suspects mentioned on here are usually involved in the 'longer' matches
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61342349

Liverbirdie - 70 minutes would be no good as a a benchmark as only 1 game has ever had the ball in play for that long since 2006

65 minutes then, us non-telly clappers want our money's worth.

 

[backwoodsman]

65 minutes then, us non-telly clappers want our money's worth.

You'd still get your value for money?? You'd still be there for the same length of time - you'd just get a guaranteed amount of time that the ball is actually being kicked about.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

65 minutes then, us non-telly clappers want our money's worth.

Considering you "hardcore" fans only add 95 million euros to Liverpool's accounts and the telly clappers add 300 million you get what your given.