Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
Part of the appeal of football is that it is a 90 minute game split into two equal halves. There are times at a match where nothing much is happening and this gives time for players to recover and for the fans to react and discuss what is going on. One of the best parts is also the added time at the end, when most of the major talking points of a match usually occur. If we start fiddling with the main rules of the sport like this, the game will start to lose its heart. One of FIFA's current consultative ideas is exactly what was suggested by the original poster i.e. two 30 min halves with the clock stopped when the ball is out of play, there is an injury etc. Once we start agreeing with what FIFA says/does, we might as well all pack it in and stay at home. Another one of their recent brilliant ideas was altering the penalty shoot our format because they thought the previous system was putting too much pressure on the first taker !. Now no one knows what the hell is going on half the time. Leave the game as it is - why fix something that isn't broken.
More down-to-earth wisdom - as we've come to expect