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I'm struggling with this a bit. Currently, the ball is typically out of play for between 20-40 minutes out of 90. If we make the game 60 minutes, and the 20-40 minutes added back in brings it out within the same sort of time range as a typical match as we currently stand. Somehow you've added...

Yeah. As someone else mentioned, the ball is in play for significantly less than the 90mins. A couple of minutes added on doesn't really compensate for it. This article is a little old (from Aug 2017) but gives an idea of how bad it can be. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40993250

Fair enough. To be honest, I'm not as outraged by it because I didn't think we'd score if we had that extra 30+ seconds, and the game just seemed to get worse the longer it went on (I was feeling quite positive about it in the first 20-30 minutes) so was personally just happy to see it end.

It's never a precise calculations. Some commentator or other made a comment once estimating about 30secs for a goal and 30secs for a substitution and that idea took hold and a lot of people seem to think it is a standard. It isn't. One of West Brom's subs was for a player who was already off the...