[The Earl of Chesterfield]

 60s 70s Spireite, on 17 June 2017 - 07:22 PM, said:

We had two points for a win for 100 years but it was changed for the better.

A year too late (youngsters, ask your dad's...).

[60s 70s Spireite]

A BBC reminder of how we are cheated out of anything like 90 minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/40993250

[BurySpireite]

 fishini, on 17 June 2017 - 06:17 PM, said:

Why not play the game for as long as it takes to have the ball in play for 90 minutes?

Why!? Where did you get this idea from... don't understand why after all these years you'd want to extend all football matches by ~30 minutes, think you might be missing the point.

 monte, on 19 June 2017 - 08:39 AM, said:

Think of it like in the cricket when they play a quick 10 second ad between overs on sky. They currently do it in Brasil, when it goes out for a throw you have a 5 second advert.

Well could they do that now do you think? The new system would do nothing to lengthen stoppages or change anything on the surface so if your answer was 'no' then it would still be a no after the change. The only changes would be changes in the way the players decide to play the game, hopefully they'd time-waste less essentially... but they could play exactly the same way if they wanted to and the game would look virtually identical to us spectators.

[Bobby Darling]

 dim view, on 17 June 2017 - 04:53 PM, said:

So am I.
Don't forget the latest innovation: a goalscorer arriving back at the halfway line 5 minutes after the other players have lined up to get on with the game. Designed to give teammates plenty of time to re focus after the celebrations and to reduce the time the opponents have to reply.

Not a recent innovation. Martin Allen's Brentford team started that years ago.

[Brookie]

Rugby Union seems to manage, would like to see it trialed in a pre-season tournament

[Denny]

I posted this 18 months ago:

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I had a similar thought at the end of last season.
If you stop the clock for freekicks/ ball out of play/subs etc. then you eliminate any timewasting. Goalies can take as long as they want, it won't take time off the clock.
If you take it further...It would also allow coaches challenges and replays to be checked, a little like the NFL has 2 challenges per team per game.

Anyway, the premier league stats were that the ball was in play on average 64 minutes per game last season and 62 minutes per game the season before.
So if you had a 35 minute half that would get you more football than you have now and you would still be finished before 5pm for a 3pm kickoff.

Only thing that seems to have changed in the last few years is that we get less football now than we did then!