I don’t understand why we as a viewing public can’t see exactly when a game will end. It also doesn’t seem like the players are aware. I was watching the end of the Guana vs. Korean Republic match today and it seemed the game ended without notice. How is time kept and who decides when the game ends?
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Because (association) football/soccer is one of the most resistant to change sports on the planet. Despite the widespread availability of stop watches for decades now they refuse to update the rules to use them broadly. So what happens is when there is an event that requires play stopping (such as an injury, after a score, etc.) the ref stops THEIR clock, but the “game” clock keeps going. The difference between the 90 minute game clock and the clock the refs are using is called “stoppage” time and the refs have complete control over it. What makes it worse is the refs don’t even have to stop the game when THAT runs out, they can (and do) allow an in progress play to continue if they want to/feel like it should. For some reason, fans/teams/leagues simply accept this rather than wanting to move to a more transparent mechanism like basically every other timed sport on the planet.
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