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soccer is a hopelessly stupid little game that is so completely clueless, it doesn’t even know when it ends.

the time on the clock expires, but the game continues for some secret period of time until all of the unannounced penalty seconds tick off the REAL clock, which is apparently somewhere in the ref’s knickers.

THAT is a stupid game.

THAT is a stupid game.

And, why do they pretend they don't have arms?

At least a soccer game does end in our lifetime. Our whole hosehold is pretty irritated with the how-many-commercials-can-we possibly-get NFL games (didn’t they used to be fully within a 3 hour slot as televised?). and for baseball games, my wife will absolutely not tolerate the duration which has more spitting per inning than any other action. Golf is actually beginning to seem as exciting as baseball (and not much longer).

the time on the clock expires, but the game continues for some secret period of time until all of the unannounced penalty seconds tick off the REAL clock, which is apparently somewhere in the ref’s knickers.

Oh, check this out.

My son was in a High School State tournament game and had to go "on the road" across the state (about a 5 hour drive) and ended up playing on a natural grass field which was not mowed low enough and was lined smaller than a regular field turf field. Anyway, the other coach did this because our team had not played on grass all year long and wanted a competitive advantage.

Here is the part that is to your point. The game ended up tied at 3-3 after regulation so they played two 5 minute overtime "golden goal" (think sudden death) periods. Mind you, usually during High School soccer in our state the scoreboard clock is the official clock and there is no "stoppage time". There was no scoreboard clock in this game. Towards the end of the 2nd overtime period, my son had beat the last defender and was heading for a one-on-one with the Keeper and had the angle on the Keeper and was loading up put the ball in the net and the ref BLEW THE GAME ENDING WHISTLE!! You NEVER do that as a ref and so we ended up getting homered by the home town ref. Sucks. Ended up losing on PK's.

The state organization that runs High School sports here should be prosecuted under RICO statutes for some of the crap they have pulled over the years. This whole situation should not have happened.

‘soccer is a hopelessly stupid little game that is so completely clueless, it doesn’t even know when it ends’

‘’soccer is a hopelessly stupid little game that is so completely clueless...’

thats because soccer is played outside the UNITED STATES and places outside the United States are more or less completely boring or stupid if not ...they’d be carbon copies of the United States emulating it years and years ago ....and therefore they’d not be stupid...so that makes ‘em pretty much slow balls......so....