25 minute half times with entertainment?

[Steve the Tea]

How many are old enough to remember the Saturdays when you’d watch Grandstand or World of Sport until twenty to five when the first results from the three o clock kick offs would start coming in? You’d get forty five minutes each way.and ten minutes for half time then and it’s still exactly the same game, yet it takes fifteen to twenty minutes longer these days, why?

So true. And back then, Bob, you didn't have referees taking 70 seconds over an ordinary free kick outside the box and over 90 seconds if a booking was included. Also it didn't take over a minute to restart a game after a goal and goalkeepers taking an age over goalkicks etc. Tan's Chinese dragon interlude at half time was bad enough and 15 minutes is more than ample.

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[the other bob wilson]

So true. And back then, Bob, you didn't have referees taking 70 seconds over an ordinary free kick outside the box and over 90 seconds if a booking was included. Also it didn't take over a minute to restart a game after a goal and goalkeepers taking an age over goalkicks etc. Tan's Chinese dragon interlude at half time was bad enough and 15 minutes is more than ample.

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Do you know anyone who pays their £20 or whatever it is to get into a football match these days for the bits during the two hours when there’s no football being played? I don’t and yet these would appear to be the people this proposal is geared towards. All this is about is trying to increase bar and food takings through trying to get people to eat or drink more during the ever growing intervals when there’s no football being played.

[Rjk]

Do you know anyone who pays their £20 or whatever it is to get into a football match these days for the bits during the two hours when there’s no football being played? I don’t and yet these would appear to be the people this proposal is geared towards. All this is about is trying to increase bar and food takings through trying to get people to eat or drink more during the ever growing intervals when there’s no football being played.

I think they've seen the money generated by the TV audience for the Superbowl and thought that they want a bit of that. the advertising revenue during the half time show is astronomical and they want their crown jewel events to be similar.
so you turn it into.an event that will attract non football watchers. the people watching the game are already a captive audience.

[Steve the Tea]

Do you know anyone who pays their £20 or whatever it is to get into a football match these days for the bits during the two hours when there’s no football being played? I don’t and yet these would appear to be the people this proposal is geared towards. All this is about is trying to increase bar and food takings through trying to get people to eat or drink more during the ever growing intervals when there’s no football being played.

Methinks your answer is not a million miles from the truth there. When a corner takes 45 secs and 75 secs for a restart from a goal you know the product on display has nothing to do with the fans.

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[lardy]

Methinks your answer is not a million miles from the truth there. When a corner takes 45 secs and 75 secs for a restart from a goal you know the product on display has nothing to do with the fans.

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Surely the 75 seconds spent celebrating a goal is the best part of the match for a fan?