kevin wrote:Blazing_Saddler wrote:
Surely this guess work is wrong anyway, surely they can just have a stop watch, and start it everytime it is needed.
Couldn't agree more Blazing.
Time elapsed is measured purely at the whim of the ref. There's no science to it.
I've even asked "seasoned refs" how elapsed time is measured. And they can't give a consistent and satisfactory answer.
I can't believe it doesn't get questioned more often. There are serious discrepancies with the injury time laws in my opinion. For one example, there is almost always more injury time at the end of the second half, than the first. There are obviously instances where this isn't the case, but It happens alot. You usually get 2-3 mins max first half, unless someone has had a serious injury, yet at the end of a game there is 4-6 mins in most cases. Surely the halfs are the same length, so it should average out somewhere the same, but I am sure it doesn't. I am guessing that substitutions is one reason that would be given, but i'm not sure that is enough to justify this alone.