A Big Ball of Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Stuff

January 12, 2019Daniel Wise

It's tough to talk about time without bringing up tired cliches and tropes. But it's such a universal, ubiquitous concept that is hard to grasp without the use of idioms to help frame it. When it comes to soccer, time is both always moving forward and relative to the discretion of the referee. There are two halves to a game of soccer, but teams also have to account for stoppage time and extra time. For newcomers, the way time is managed during a soccer match may seem random. I used to think it was solely up to the ref to call the end of the half or the game. While that's not too far off, there are a few factors that impact the passage of time during a game. This is why soccer is...