In soccer there are two types of cramps: muscle cramps and those in the 90th minute with a score in favor of the minimum. The former are very painful for the footballer, the latter for the fan. Thus, game after game, semblances of evangelical quotes are heard in the stadiums, with invocations to the resurrection of Lazarus of Bethany. Although the “get up and go” is usually transformed in the stands into a “go, get up”, with some disqualifying behind.
The art of wasting time on the pitch has been perfected over the years: complicit ball boys, coaches who exhaust the changes and in the process exhaust the public, players who throw themselves onto the pitch when the score is dying, goalkeepers who they take a run from the locker room to take a goal kick, etc. Football picaresque techniques that have been causing The league be the competition of the five major leagues on the continent in which the least effective time is played: 58:36 minutes. Says the latest study CIES Football Observatory. This means that in each match of the highest Spanish competition, more than 30 minutes of play are lost on average. Of course it doesn’t help VAR, with deliberations that could count as ad breaks. Nor does the natural inertia help to repeat what has already become a habit.
In August he warned Pellegriniafter a match against Cadiz full of interruptions, that it would be necessary to make “an effort between referees, technicians and players so that the Spanish League is not this embarrassing”. Also a referee Carlos Velasco Carballo, sounded the alarm during a talk he offered to the coaches before the start of the championship. LaLiga loses its attractiveness and roots, not only because of the exodus of big names or because of the diversification of schedules, but also because there is a lack of goals, and also, although it is less obvious, because the game stops too much without anyone noticing it. These last two points are, in fact, closely related.
Watching football is one of the most beautiful and noble ways of wasting time that exist, but it should be ensured that the one who wastes time during a match is only the fan.
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