Interesting match for me to watch today as City (my home town club) put 7 past Rotheram (where I work and whom loads of colleagues went along to support today, which is excellent for work tomorrow!).
There were several substitutes, goals and a break for an injury in the second half, yet the ref added on 0 minutes of added time and blew up right on 90 mins. Now I've no real issue with this as it's a cup game so no goal difference. However, a couple of pretty big fan accounts I follow on Twitter (not involving either club) seemed to use this against referees, saying that it's evidence of referees manipulating the added time to suit a game situation and accusing refs of doing it in other matches to benefit certain teams.
I disagree but the very fact that in adding on no time it gives people the oppurtunity to infer that referees at the professional level manipulate the laws to suit the situation is not ideal. I've always been an advocate of taking time keeping away from the ref (stop clock) and to me this incident is further evidence that the subjective nature of time wasting and added time could be removed.
There were several substitutes, goals and a break for an injury in the second half, yet the ref added on 0 minutes of added time and blew up right on 90 mins. Now I've no real issue with this as it's a cup game so no goal difference. However, a couple of pretty big fan accounts I follow on Twitter (not involving either club) seemed to use this against referees, saying that it's evidence of referees manipulating the added time to suit a game situation and accusing refs of doing it in other matches to benefit certain teams.
I disagree but the very fact that in adding on no time it gives people the oppurtunity to infer that referees at the professional level manipulate the laws to suit the situation is not ideal. I've always been an advocate of taking time keeping away from the ref (stop clock) and to me this incident is further evidence that the subjective nature of time wasting and added time could be removed.