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Ok. What about when they don't need the full allotted time for treatment? When you consider most matches only have about three minutes added time to compensate for all the injuries, goals and substitutions, the average treatment time can't be that long, so even making them stand aside for two...

How would that not affect any player with a serious injury?

I don't claim it's flawless, but something needed to be done about the increased feigning of injuries. I'm not sure what other way you can allow treatment in case it is genuine, yet still take efforts to reduce feigned injuries that doesn't have some flaw, beyond doing what I suggested with...

The idea behind it is right. It came in when there was a tendency for players to feign injury to waste time, interrupt the flow of the game, throw opponents off their game, etc. and it started to get silly. Players still do that. The problem for me is that there should be leeway for referees to...

You mean the incident where the player got in behind and Greer grabbed him with one arm round his waist and the other over his shoulder and pulled him back, 'taking one for the team'? That was a yellow card all day long. No one can complain about it.

Moments before that we were given a throw in that should have gone to them.

It is the ref's decision. From the laws of the game: Allowance for time lost Many stoppages in play are entirely natural (e.g. throw-ins, goal kicks). An allowance is to be made only when these delays are excessive. The fourth official indicates the minimum additional time decided by the...

The 30secs per sub/goal is a guideline only, it can be longer if subs take up more time, or shorter less time taken. Same with goals. Though I thought it would be longer because of the injury and because the ref also made a bit of a meal of letting orlandi know taking a shot after he had been...