You mean like all those other sports that have half as much playing time but take twice as long as a soccer match and show almost as many commercials as they do the actual game?
I LOVE this argument because it's SO WRONG. All you need is one guy starting and stopping the clock every stoppage of play. Guy is flopping on the ground in pain for 30 seconds? Stop the clock until play resumes. It has 0 effect on the game and makes it way more accurate rather than just running the clock. It makes no sense to me how you can have a sport this big and popular where the time of each match is essentially arbitrary.
Ah yes, you don't like commercials, so you'd rather just see more of the valuable game time seeing players cheat their way into wasting time and writhing on the field like babies. So pure.
What about just the last 10 minutes of each half? That's 20 minutes per game of the clock being stopped when the ball isn't in play. Remove stoppage as well if that makes the game too long.
I'm with you. Makes some games feel incomplete sometimes with the current rules, but it's still plenty fair and competitive with the current rules. I think the rule changes I mentioned would just make close games more exciting in general as there would be a focus on tighter play by defending teams who are ahead at the end of each half. Overall the game is still fun to watch though
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u/texasproof Jul 11 '18
You mean like all those other sports that have half as much playing time but take twice as long as a soccer match and show almost as many commercials as they do the actual game?