But most of those other sports don't have a dead stop when time runs out either. Football the play keeps going, basketball the shot still counts. Neither is the case in soccer. Plus as I stated in earlier posts for any of it to work you must have a fully functional clock with horn.

 

I guess I don't know soccer well enough, but I can't see how the dead stop is that big of a deal to timing. Shot has to cross the goal before time expires....ok. The horn could simply be an airhorn handled by the clock operator.

No kidding. I still think the horn should be required. Don't want to add human error into the equation of you are going to go the route anyway

 

If a human is operating the clock, whether in the booth or as an official on the field, then human error is possible.

Clearly you don't know how time is kept in a FIFA match. No there is no time keeper. The decision on how much time to add is the responsibility of the center referee and no one else. They dictate to everyone how much is added not the other way.

 

How is the stadium clock more accurate in any way? It still relies on the referee to correct it. While the stadium clock is official if working, the referee still is the one who determines what official time is and tells the clock operator to change the time accordingly.

 

High school also doesn't have added time just a a point of emphasis, they stop and start the clock. FIFA has added time because the clock is always running.

 

Lastly most youth games that I have ever reffed don't have added time because the people that schedule the games stack them so close together that you can't add time.

For someone making some bold statements regarding how time is kept or should be kept you seem to have very little understanding of how things actually work.

 

So you have attended professional matches in an official capacity? You know for a fact there is no one other then the center ref keeping the official time? This is not want I have read and heard with regard to professional matches such as EPL, La Liga, etc, and International matches.

 

The stadium clock when started and stopped correctly is very accurate. Again from what I read and hear in NCAA college soccer matches the official game clock is controlled (yes determined and indicated by the center ref) by the official clock keeper. I've witnessed quite a few college games and I've yet to see the center ref indicate to the clock operator during the run of play to change the time. When the clock reaches 0:00 on the board the horn sounds and the game is over.

 

Many youth games such as MRL, National League, KPL type games are "not stacked so close together that you can't add time." Time is almost always added to this level of game.

 

I have kept a clock during many youth games, "stopping" my clock during goals scored, cards and injuries. Almost never does the center ref even come close to adding the correct amount of stoppage time.

In the college game where the clock is stopped and started rules and indicated by the center ref, it is very accurate.

If a human is operating the clock, whether in the booth or as an official on the field, then human error is possible.

 

But asking the ref to somehow watch the clock, fouls, and if the ball crossed the line milliseconds before that clock you were watching instead of the ball hits zero seems to make that problem worse doesn't it?

I guess I don't know soccer well enough, but I can't see how the dead stop is that big of a deal to timing. Shot has to cross the goal before time expires....ok. The horn could simply be an airhorn handled by the clock operator.

See above.

So you have attended professional matches in an official capacity? You know for a fact there is no one other then the center ref keeping the official time? This is not want I have read and heard with regard to professional matches such as EPL, La Liga, etc, and International matches.

 

The stadium clock when started and stopped correctly is very accurate. Again from what I read and hear in NCAA college soccer matches the official game clock is controlled (yes determined and indicated by the center ref) by the official clock keeper. I've witnessed quite a few college games and I've yet to see the center ref indicate to the clock operator during the run of play to change the time. When the clock reaches 0:00 on the board the horn sounds and the game is over.

 

Many youth games such as MRL, National League, KPL type games are "not stacked so close together that you can't add time." Time is almost always added to this level of game.

 

I have kept a clock during many youth games, "stopping" my clock during goals scored, cards and injuries. Almost never does the center ref even come close to adding the correct amount of stoppage time.

In the college game where the clock is stopped and started rules and indicated by the center ref, it is very accurate.

Are you asking have I sat in on a professional referees meeting at a game no, but it was a stupid question. I instead have the power of Google and can download a free copy of the FIFA laws and read Law 7 which confirms what I stated.

 

Really? Are you comparing top level leagues to your standard everyday Saturday game. No kidding they add time for those leagues.

 

As far as you stopping your clock during youth matches... get a new hobby. Goals arent one of the reasons to add time I'm FIFA matches. Interestingly subs are which isn't a time the clock is stopped in high school and ncaa. The other issue is that games shouldn't always have all of the time added back. Don't know about you but I don't think we need added time on a 5-0 blowout. Which is why FIFA leaves it up to refs. It's meant to give you an approximation of lost time back, not every second.

Interestingly, in NCAA play the clocked is stopped during the last five minutes of the second half any time the team with the lead subs (whether or not the other team is subbing). There are any number of different ways keeping time could be handled. No matter how it is done the parent doing QA on the whole process from the stands is going to find fault with how it is executed. Keeping the "official time" on the stadium clock is just going to make the "errors" that much easier for THAT parent to identify. Which again is why I think AEDs should be mandatory equipment at every game. When he (or she) blows a gasket I'd like there to be proper medical equipment readily on hand.

The biggest thing to me is that everyone usually sits next to me so they can be reminded towards the end of each half that "the official time is kept......nevermind."

 

They really do find it funny EVERY game. How can I deprive them of that?

 

Maybe I can just go with "Just a reminder that the official time is kept on the scoreboard"........just not the same.

I can always count on you guys....