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you might not be aware that there are different rules for it in different sports. it doesn't work the same way in handball, in basketball and in american football, and since you never cared to explain how would you introduce your sports saving rule, i can't but make assumptions.

you mean 2x30 minutes of clean playing time would make the match length more predictable than 2x45 minutes (+ usually 3-5 minutes of overtime)? now i don't understand you at all. first of all, you said that you hated france's time wasting. when would you stop the clock? at every foul when it...

the advertising revenue that you cannot plan? no way they're gonna swap the 15-minute break and the 45 (+3-5) minute halfs and the completely predictable schedule to that.

isn't it the ref who should restart the game after a goal? - - - Updated - - - i speak french :shifty: :D i went to a bilingual school and did visit france on a couple of occasions. we always were the inferior little commie kids who had to be presented with advanced technology like a tape...

and at the beginning, we didn't have subs at all either. but since football went global, only minor things changed. the predictable duration of the game also makes football so marketable. that's one of the reasons why you have all sorts of tv companies buying champions league matches, and...

he's a football fan like anybody else here, hence not 100% consequent and rational about everything. for one, when i was a kid, i never liked german, english or russian nt's: the germans had awful haircuts, the english played ugly football, and the soviets had soldiers in our backyard. so what.

and offside rule was changed a couple of times too, along with the rules for red card offenses. also, we had golden goal, silver goal, 4th sub for the extra time, and the green card is being tested in lower leagues worldwide. those are minor things compared to the duration of the match.

to be fair with matuidi, he was basically knocked out by hazard, and probably had a concussion. he should have been substituted right after that collision. imho introducing the net match time would create controversy, and it wouldn't go down too well with the tv companies either. the consistent...

brilliant stuff. aren't usually english the most vocal camp about their fair play? :baus:

:D dunno if it was posted, but they also tried to equalize while croatian players were celebrating mandzu's goal: :stupid:

@Enron @Seven stopping the clock is something tv companies (who basically finance the sport) won't ever agree with. it would completely ruin the predictability of the length of a match broadcast.

plenty of hungarians do, too :shifty:

ridiculous call, there was only one ball on the pitch.

can we just eliminate both of these teams and let japan play the next round?

what a shit match, i'll just switch over to a random mentalist/csi/bones episode or whatever i find on cable.

they will make it. it's just funny how fragile they are.

he basically played as a winger (i bet his heatmap looks like a giant green spot on japan's half), still offered nothing in attack.

coming out: never understood the carrasco hype.

wow :D

courtois :D