Granted that as a general rule, we don't add time for ball in and out of
play, I typically do add some time for balls out of play in U-16 and above
on the big center field at my home club which is significantly higher than
the surrounding fields and bounded by steep falling grades. Coupled with a
strong prevailing seasonal south wind, balls that go north out of touch roll
to Kansas, if not Saskatchewan. We lose significant time. I tell the
players its like playing in the Alps. I try to get at least two-three extra
balls to leave in nets and on the downwind side and conscript sibling ball
retrievers. As AR, I even break the unwritten rule not to stop a ball going
out of touch (well, I don't "stop" it, I just let it "bounce" off of me to
kill enough momentum so that it doesn't go ridiculously far.)
Like most of the fields in the complex, the ground falls away rapidly along
the touchline such that spectators in fold up chairs are at a 60 degree
angle facing the sky with grandmothers tumbling backwards to collect in the
ditch at the bottom. When the civil engineer had the site graded, no one
told him to make the plateaus any wider than the fields themselves. You
don't even want to hear about the horrors of being an AR on some fields
there - sidestepping with your heels lower than your toes and sprinting
sideways along a steep grade. The fields do drain like the dickens though.
Bill Liedtke
OKC OK 07
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of Topics for Soccer Referees
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mike Moore
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: Time Management
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > Ron, where have you heard/read that time is not added for the scoring of
> > goals? This is something we have been taught for many years
> and have seen
> > done in many a game at all levels. As to a shutout and Law 18, I never
> said
> > that the goals were all against one team. In fact, the game
> ended with a
> > one-goal differential (as it was at half-time too).
> >
> > Steve
>
> Here in Canada, we don't add in time for the ball out of play during the
> normal course of events. Since a goal is fairly normal, no time
> gets added.
> I don't think that refs in the UK add on any time for goals either, but I
> was only a player there, not an official.
>
> Mike Moore
>
