Premier League 23/24

Blimey that’s a wild one for Brighton.

They'll probably just rotate players more. Remember they're in Europe now so will have a lot more games and Mitoma can't play every single game. Adingra is also another promising young winger they've got.

The new added-time rules in English football are "absurd" and will not be used in European competitions, according to Uefa's chief of football Zvonimir Boban.

But some players and managers have criticised the move on player welfare grounds.

"It's absolutely absurd," said Boban, who captained Croatia's famous 1998 World Cup team to a third-place finish.

"Regarding player welfare, it's some kind of big tragedy because they are adding almost 12, 13, 14 minutes."

Matches in England have often been running beyond 100 minutes since the start of the new campaign.

"When you play 60, 65 minutes - I can speak from my experience, especially as a midfielder - when you get tired, it's the last 30 minutes of the game. And then somebody comes and adds another 15 minutes," said Boban.

"How often we have spoken critically about the calendar and too many games. We are not listening to players and coaches [about welfare]. It's crazy! It's too much, so we will not do this. Our guidelines are different."

Uefa's chief refereeing officer Roberto Rosetti backed Boban's comments and added that European football's governing body had been working for five years on other solutions to increase the amount of time the ball is in play.

Are we still getting lengthy amounts of stoppage time?

Last few Charlton games, its felt that games have been 5-7mins at the end.

Feels like players are quickly learning the lesson.

Same with Yellow Cards being handed out for timewasting, unless Referees are getting more lenient (wouldnt surprise me) - Its another problem we're seeing disappear compared with a few weeks ago.

sam3110 said:

Seeing as the long added time is only added on of there's lengthy stoppages and breaks in play, I can't see how they can claim they're having to play an extra 15 mins of football, when it's only added on because they haven't been playing in that time. 

I think the issue is more that the stoppages are no more than in previous seasons (aside from increased subs from 3-5), but now instead of a typical 1 minute added on first half and 4 minutes second half, you're seeing 3 minutes first half and 7/8/9 second half).

It's obviously not an issue for a club like us, but 11-12 minutes added on per game over a season for a club like Man City playing 60+ games is the equivalent of an extra 7-8 full matches. On top of that from next year teams have more games due to the increased champions league, a 32 team increased club world cup in 2025, a 48 country increased world cup in 2026.

It's never ending, and whilst the average fan won't care much for players moaning when they earn 300k+ a week, i can certainly see why the players are objecting as eventually it will only lead to fatigue and more injuries.

Well, technically, Maddison replaced Eriksen and in that time, Eriksen left the country, died, came back to life, returned to the country and changed clubs in the country he returned to.

So, by the time we’ve replaced Kane, reincarnation and reverse aging will have developed enough, so we will probably replace him with Jimmy Greaves!

Ooo we just got a mention in the Luton vs West Ham game

"Alfie Doughty's one game against West Ham came for us in the League Cup"

Really poor from the goalkeeper there