Timeouts in soccer?

I still read the rival paper even though I've moved away. Just saw this today.

You've got to be kidding me, Vermont. Timeouts in soccer? I loved the first quote by Woodstock's coach about how he'd laugh at the coach who does use one.

One of the things that makes soccer unique, and beautiful, is running time. No timesouts. Game time just keeps going till halftime, or the end of the game.

Terrible idea.

http://www.vnews.com/08172008/5006237.htm

I'm sure there are soccer fans here who'd like to weigh in.

(BTW, I'm a big, big fan of Sass. Covered him for 4 years. Great dude who talks in soccer parables and always uses British terms to talk soccer. Always. Old school. He coaches at a school that is football-first and everything else, yet has built a nice program in 25 years.)

 

Adding timeouts would be a worse gimmick than the shootout was in MLS.

 

Hell, I'm still angry at the high school association here allowing unlimited substitutions. But timeouts would be even worse.

 

Tell the coaches to teach their kids to dive a la Ronaldo -- all the timeouts you want

F'ing Ree-dick-u-lous

 

That's worse than the change we had last year. Three referees on the field, like a basketball crew, for high school games.

No linesmen.

 

This would be awful.

 

I love the shootout.

But I'm also a new soccer fan.

 

Wha ... wha ... WHAT!?!

How in the name of Cantona do they call offside?

 

It was bad enough I worked in a state which wanted the ARs to be armed with whistle as well as the referee, and to rotate spots on the pitch in the course of a match.

I think we've just found a more idiotic suggestion in soccer right here. Timeouts? Complete joke.

What will help is when state associations and such stop messing with sports with which they don't know or care to understand.

 

They rotate around the play, like basketball referees. One is meant to be on the last defender at all times. And, yes, they all have whistles.

 

Similar to the three-whistle system with rotating officials idea that one state used.

This state probably never thought about the AR's role in determining offside infractions.

 

Soccer has time-ins?