Re: Additional time

Bluetea1

In which case, why is the expectation always that they will blow up bang on 2 mins?

I've watched a few matches today and the ref has blown up pretty much exactly as the minute ticks over. If they add on 2 mins, they blow up on 2 mins.

Maybe because of the antics of basses like Alex Ferguson they are worried about a team scoring after the minimum has gone and they don't have the courage to stand up to that boss and the thousands of fans who will claim they have been robbed and tell them that they decided to give more than the minimum because that was the correct amount? IE the ref bottles it and plays it safe. The fans get used to this and forget that it's supposed to be a minimum, unless they were losing in which case they remember and 'were robbed.'