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Originally Posted by Sgrath
This is one of those things that seems to come up often around big games etc. and especially from people who should know better and have had it explained to them (ex-England players on TV as the classic example). The extra time board is the minimum time the ref feels is necessary to add. They can still add as much as they want.
http://www.theifab.com/laws/the-dura...time-lost-2018
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I think they should (and probably will) take a page from rugby here. A few years ago they changed from the arbitrary injury time to stopping the clock for these things. Now when you hit 80 minutes and play stops, the game is over. I don’t have an enormous issue with the extra time not being exact, but there are some games where there are mysteriously say 6 minutes added, and it seems way too long. Honestly though, it’s a pretty minor thing nearly always.