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scarletjim said:
It's fairly simple to resolve. The ref indicates to the 4th official every time a team is time-wasting. The 4th official adds time into their 'pot'. When we've played 90 mins plus the non-time-wasting time added on, the match ends unless either manager indicates that he wants to use his pot, at which point it is DOUBLED. He can then halt it at any point (for example if his team scores a winning goal). The game ends when both managers use up their pot (or decide not to).

It may sound complicated, but it doesn't have to be - the 4th offical just needs two time boards to hold up after he's held up the normal time added board, one for each team. He just then needs to communicate with the ref if a manager wants to use his pot (which will be obvious in most cases - if you're losing, you'll use it. It's only if the team's are drawing that it might be arguable).

It would soon become meaningless anyway - no manager is going to tell their players to waste time if they know the opposition have the CHOICE to add UP TO DOUBLE that amount of time at the end, and can STOP it whenever they want during that time.

Also, imagine how exciting a winning goal in that time would be! In most cases it would literally be the last kick of the game!
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Or we could just use a stop clock like every other serious football code does.
 
Hampshire Spur said:
Dont mean to be horrible. But club cant keep living on glory teams of 60s and 80s. Completely lost our identity post fa cup win 91. It's all been a waste of time since then. We had a swagger back then not now.
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No exactly, irrespective of how satisfying that is we ain’t that club anymore we’ve fallen behind been left behind by greedy businessmen who view Tottenham Hotspur football club as a corporate moneymaking machine of which it is, football is secondary in their priorities we had the chance after the CL champions final to utilise that potential for everyone to se what we we’re capable of , okay we got to the final by good luck and ignorance but we got there and Levy should have taken advantage pushed us on with better players backed Pochettino and moved us forward we play in London a major player in the world of everything it’s was there for the taking but no he sat raked in his big bonus built his shiny stadium filled it with equally as greedy a bastard as he is all looking for the next business deal……..and that doesn’t involve a football team
 
White Hart said:
It’s Ange and his prehistoric coaching staff mainly to blame.Theynhavent got a bloody clue.
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They’re definitely not blameless in all this but it’s been the same 13-14 players playing, including a few teenagers, playing 2 matches a week for the past 2+ months. They’re out of gas and you can tell by watching the matches. The fact they didn’t have acouple outfield players signed in the first week of January is just gross negligence.
 
Mrs Perryman said:
The saddest thing is that I'm not even surprised!
Any team thinks they can get a result against us.
And I'll still be there on Thursday - Tottenham 'til they kill me

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And that's all I'm going to say on that subject.
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Kuya said:
I can't quite my head round that, games could on for a long long time. It's doesn't seem right to stop it soon as a goal scored either 🤔
Need to see a trial run 😀
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It would only be punishing the team who did the time-wasting, so it would be 100% their own fault.

And games wouldn't necessarily go on for a very long time. If you think most games nowadays have, say, 5 mins added on. Well, say the ref decides 2 mins of that is 'real', and 3 mins is Team A time-wasting because they have a one goal lead. So at 90 mins, the ref plays the 2 mins, then the Team B manager indicates he wants to use his doubled pot, so 6 more mins. So rather than 95 mins, the game would be 98 mins, those 3 extra mins being a punishment to Team A for time-wasting. Perhaps I'm not explaining well. But as someone else said, if they just gave a few second yellows, and also made players leave the pitch for a whole minute if injured, that would be a much easier way to resolve it...
 
I remember Roy Keane once saying about us:“Tottenham will always let you down “ When the pressures on they let you down”.Never a more truer word spoken.
 
Kaner Owns Woolwich said:
They’re definitely not blameless in all this but it’s been the same 13-14 players playing, including a few teenagers, playing 2 matches a week for the past 2+ months. They’re out of gas and you can tell by watching the matches. The fact they didn’t have acouple outfield players signed in the first week of January is just gross negligence.
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Agreed, but the depleted squad has had to keep playing the same style all the time. It’s been suicidal.
 
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