[Football] Half-time to be extended to 25min?!

[Wozza]

No, no, no!

https://www.themag.co.uk/2021/11/la...s-at-matches-newcastle-united-premier-league/

 

[beorhthelm]

...the proposal is being put forward by CONMEBOL, the South American governing body, so that football can introduce ‘Super Bowl-style entertainment’ midway through matches.

i've watched some south american football, they need entertaining at half time.

 

[Stat Brother]

Has this not already been pooh-poohed?

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

I wouldn't especially care if they did this for certain games. Maybe last game of the season. Cup final. Etc.

But not every game and especially not midweek

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[PaoloAlbioni]

Time to bring back Gully’s Girls!

 

[happypig]

‘Super Bowl-style entertainment’

 

[Steve in Japan]

Sometimes it feels like it's already happening.

On the plus side, it increases your chance of getting a pint.....

 

[Swansman]

**** that. Would create a difficult situation for teams as well: you'd want your players to get all the rest they can get but if you take a 25 min break and then go out and play without warming up, injuries would increase.

 

[maltaseagull]

I wouldn't especially care if they did this for certain games. Maybe last game of the season. Cup final. Etc.

But not every game and especially not midweek

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Watching games on TV, especially Sky, I thought they already had extended to 30 minutes!

It certainly seems like it.

Alternatively, on the rare occasions I go back to the UK to watch a live game, it seems to be 10 minutes, as by the time you get to the concourse, queue for a pint, drink it and have a pee, the players are back out.

 

[Gwylan]

I didn't like it when half-time was increased to 15 minutes. This is a bonkers idea ... so no doubt it will be passed

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Time to bring back Gully’s Girls!

They will be Gully's Grannies by now.

The one, and there is only one, good thing about extending the half time interval, is that l will be able to get to the loo and back before the second half commences . . . just.

 

[Official Old Man]

25 minute half times NO.
Next will be an extension of the 'drinks breaks' on 22 & 67 minutes. Did the overseas TV companies use the summer drinks breaks to take ad breaks?
As it is, the on screen adverts during games are getting bigger. This stat sponsored by xxx and the time sponsored by xxx.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I still remember it being 10mins and you'd always hear "it's 20 to 5, the results are coming in".

Did it change around the end of the 80s? I remember when I played 10mins seemed long, long enough to start getting stiff and cold. Long enough for me to sometimes think "why am I here getting shouted out by an idiot who thinks he's Alex Bloody Ferguson in the freezing cold kicking a ball about on a muddy part frozen bog..."

 

[A1X]

But if they don't extend it how will I ever know what Ray Winstone thinks the in-play odds are

Wouldn't mind it some games (e.g. first / last game of the season) but if I have to be in the Amex a minute longer than I have to watching us get beaten on a Monday night in January then it's a no from me.

 

[ChickenBaltiPie]

Gotta simply be a money grab for advertising revenue, surely? Greed as always! [emoji35]

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

**** that. Would create a difficult situation for teams as well: you'd want your players to get all the rest they can get but if you take a 25 min break and then go out and play without warming up, injuries would increase.

Exactly why it’ll never happen.

 

[GT49er]

What a bloody awful idea.

 

[fisons]

Would give more time for the pie hat trick when the guest pie is one that you fancy.

 

[chaileyjem]

Its not actually on the agenda of the IFAB meeting that is supposedly discussing this - although some reports it might be raised as (i guess ) AOB.
Its also fairly normal for these sort of things to be raised and even talked about - why not - but there's zero chance of it being signed off as there's minimal support for it.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Gotta simply be a money grab for advertising revenue, surely? Greed as always! [emoji35]

Indeed, money used to be merely king, now it's God.