Orange slices for everyone, or the I Hate Soccer thread

First, thanks for starting this thread. I've found a home.

One of my many complaints about soccer:

Clocks are precise. You employ clocks for precision. Some sports split timing into 10s or 100s or even thousandths of seconds. Why? Because they are precise.

But not soccer. No, soccer has a clock. But the game doesn't end when the clock strikes zero. Thanks to the most ridiculous notion this side of the BCS, stoppage time allows a game to continue on after the game is over. For how long? Who knows. Well, some people on the field know, but the players don't. Nor the coaches. Nor the fans.

Ridiculous.

And let's not even get started about all the ties.

 

Except for the board held up that displays the amount of stoppage time to be played, you're absolutely right.

 

you know what the most exciting play in football is? when the quarterback guy takes the ball from between that one guy's legs, and then goes down on one knee and, like the clock keeps running, but everyone stops playing and starts shaking hands and stuff, even though there are, like 30 seconds left?
I like that precision.

 

Speaking of clocks I think the sport would benefit by some sort of 45 second clock where team would be required to take a shot at goal. Perhaps also a 10 second line.

 

This is very true, and why I'll still read it. But I still want oranges.

 

Except that it's about as precise as a chalkboard.

 

Here's my problem with "stoppage" ime.

Soccer claims to play with a running clock, yet someone is keeping time of when the clock would have stpped, so they can add "stoppage" time on to the end of the game.

Why not just stop the clock during the game so when the clock says there's five minutes to play, you know there's five minutes to play and not 9 or 11 or 13 or who knows how long..

 

We have a winner.

 

Ummm, this is an "I Hate Soccer" thread. Bashing is expected. You want the non-bashing thread.

 

MLS had a countdown clock back its early days. Getting rid of That and the idiotic shootouts are the two things the league did right in the '90s.

 

That's fair enough.