Brace yourself for a lot more World Cup minutes
But, at the 2022 World Cup, audiences are experiencing games which have just got longer – a lot longer. We’ve seen fourth officials raising their electronic boards at the end of halves throughout games in Qatar signaling well over the usual four or five minutes. Seven or eight minutes often seems to be the minimum. On a few occasions already, over 10 minutes have been added on. It has resulted in just one of the opening eight games of the tournament finishing in less that 100 minutes.
This is not acceptable. “Whenever there will be an incident like an injury treatment, substitution slot, penalty kick, red card or celebration of a goal – I want to underline that because it is a moment of joy for one team, for the other maybe not – but it may last one or one and a half minutes. “So imagine in a half there are two or three goals scored and it’s easy to lose five or six minutes and this team must be compensated at the end.
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