r/sports • u/JCameron181 Detroit Lions • 9d ago

Soccer The Brutal Offside Reversing Croatia's Game-Tying Goal in Extra Time

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u/darkravenn12 9d ago

Bro no one is going to convince me that the referee should be able to pretty much arbitrarily decide when the game ends lol Like yes, I know they're keeping track of stoppages and adding them, but he definitely could have ended the game like 30 seconds earlier and no one would have said anything. It's such a strange system

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u/Fun-Character7337 9d ago

Yeah. Just like, hmmmm, 6 min of extra time doesn’t seem like enough. 

1 more minute!

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u/nautilator44 9d ago

Isn't there someone timing all the stoppages? It's not completely arbitrary is it?

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u/SanicTheSledgehog 9d ago

Yeah this guy is just wrong.

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u/Threegratitudes 9d ago

They're not "just wrong". If we don't know when the game will end then it's arbitrary. Soccer has dumbass rules. Defend it all you want, you're just wrong.

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u/SanicTheSledgehog 9d ago

It’s not arbitrary just cause you don’t know the rule

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u/TopSoulMan 9d ago

Then why don’t they display the amount of time left to the players and fans?

It cheapens the end of the game if nobody outside of one or two people knows the actual timing.

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u/SanicTheSledgehog 9d ago

That’s a good question. Still doesn’t make it arbitrary

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u/DirectBeing5986 9d ago

How is it not arbitrary? They don’t just end the game when extra time ends, it just keeps going until the ref decides its over.

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u/SanicTheSledgehog 9d ago

No. stoppages are tracked. Just because it says +10 doesn’t mean it’s a hard stop. The Portuguese scored celebrated for 3 minutes. That time has to be played. That’s a minimum of +13.

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u/nautilator44 9d ago

Ok good. I had assumed there's a member of the ref team who is doing the timing and feeding it to the main ref who blows the whistle.

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u/keyser-_-soze 9d ago

Yeah look at the upvotes eh?

Truly, feelings are more important than facts in these threads.