The guidelines are below re subs and goals scored but the ref has the right to decide to add more if the goal celebration (how dare they!) or substitution takes over the odds.
So I know we all wanted the full time whistle to go at around 60 minutes, but the 5 minutes wasn't OTT according to this: (which doesn't even take injuries into account)
Is 30 seconds added on for each substitution?
As a rule of thumb, yes. But if a player is doddering, meandering, then extra time can be added. And it's the same for red cards, yellow cards as well.
Is the clock stopped for goals?
No, it's not. But they do add time (to cover celebrations). It's around 30 seconds as a rule of thumb, unless they spend five minutes celebrating. Every situation is different, they'll take each one on its merit.
How do referees account for time-wasting?
That's discretionary. It has to depend on the situation.
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1. What exactly are the "regulations"? Are they published somewhere. It is a fact that whatever they are, they are English, because in continental Europe the amount of added time is much less.
2. Why oh why oh why are we - who pay for all this - not allowed to be fully informed of how much time they have added on at any given point? That, effectively, is what happens in ice hockey.
I agree that we could have stayed until 9 o'clock and still not scored but it did rankle a bit
I agree that 5 mins was a bit excessive last night. However, 4 substitutions, 2 goals and other short minor stoppages probably should've accumulated to 4 minutes, not 5.
At the end of the day, it does not matter now, we won. Be happy!
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/may/18/innovations-next-season-premier-league
Football authorities are swindling you with institutionalised theft. They advertise 90-minute matches and that's what you pay for – but you only get about two-thirds of that. Because of relentless faffing about by players, the average amount of time that the ball has been in play in Premier League matches this season is 62min 39sec.
That, including stoppage time, means you spend over half an hour watching players roll on the floor, line up walls, trudge off the pitch and laugh in your unsuspecting face as they celebrate goals (imagine if a taxi driver stopped his cab, jumped out and danced on the pavement for a couple of minutes while the meter kept running: would you get out and jig along with him, you fools?). And if you went to watch Blackburn-Stoke this season, you also got to watch Rory Delap repeatedly drying a ball. For about 10 minutes (in that match the ball was in play for only 50:04min).
The solution is simple: next season the referee must kill the clock whenever the ball is not on the pitch and moving. It is galling that fourth officials always indicate about one minute of time added on at the end of the first half and around four at the end of the second. It should be at least 15 in both.
Downside is it would probably encourage a lot more time wasting.
It is perhaps unnecessary nannying on the part of the football authorities, but they are scared of large scale crowd disorder and the effect it has on the image of their 'product'.
I don't agree with the authorities stance, but like having a beer in your seat - if we (football fans as a collective) had shown down the years we could be trusted to behave like grown ups the regulations would never have come into place.
I've personally felt like causing widespread disorder many times while watching us hang on desperately in such a situation :-)