As We Are Talking About Football......

[ToraToraTora]

Why do they persist with this silly, +n minutes etc displayed at the end of the game to show how long they are playing for injury time? Why not simply stop the clock as they do in rugby then every on knows when the time is up? At the moment if there is an injury in injury time know one has a clue how long there is to play.

[joggerjayne]

It's a good question ... (although, was it rhetorical?)

I can only remember one game at The Amex where I think there was no added time.

What is the time being added for? There is regularly "a minimum of (3 or 4) minutes of added time" when the game has had no stoppages or delays. And there is ALWAYS 1 extra minute on the end of the first half.

They might as well make the first half 46 minutes.

My season tickets at The Amex are almost opposite the technical area, and we can see the guy holding the lit-up board with the extra time on it, before he walks to the touchline and holds it up.

To borrow a phrase from one of your chaps, TTT ... It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

[DTCwordfan]

Excuse me TTT - but just a hi to a returning wanderer in Jayne. Welcome back here......lovely to see you on again. x

[joggerjayne]

Hi, DT x

[Ken4155]

I think, JJ, that 30 secs is added for each substitution and perhaps the same for OTT goal celebrations. After that, who knows?

[joggerjayne]

Oh. So the misconception about "tactical substitutions" near the end, just to use up a bit of time, is ... a misconception.