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Originally Posted by GGG
The game is shorter than hockey or football. It is 90 minutes running clock plus two to 3 minutes of injury time so you are sub 100 minutes plus halftime. Definately shorter total running time than the 2.5hrs a short hockey game takes or the 3 hrs a football game takes.
Also if you watched the pool games in the world cup it was exciting soccer. The knockout has gone back to playing for draws and shootouts but in the pools the agressive attacking teams were the victors and the posession teams like spain and italy lost out.
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Yes, a 90 minute soccer match is completed quicker than a 60 minute hockey or football game but, at least to me, watching 5 minutes of a team pass the ball around behind the half field line with the occasional kick back to the goal keeper makes for a game that seems to take forever to complete.
In hockey, periodically you'll see a team waste time (the Rangers a couple years ago is a prime example) and the result is displeasure from the fans.