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Plan to pick up lost time

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THERE was an article written recently about the amount of actual playing time in football. They came up with, on average, only 55 minutes.
Back when I was refereeing, we did a pre-season project of stopping our watches every time the ball was not in play, and then re-starting them once the ball was in play.
At the end of the project, referees had various lengths of time to make up to 90 minutes of actual play, ranging from 20-30 minutes.
Nothing was introduced to allow referees to actually allow 90 minutes of play, but it was certainly worth considering.
MIKE HOL...

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