{"id":588025,"date":"2026-04-06T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:19:08","slug":"fa-cup-quarter-finals-was-11-minutes-of-stoppage-time-at-west-ham-against-leeds-excessive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588025\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup quarter-finals: Was 11 minutes of stoppage time at West Ham against Leeds excessive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The difference in injury time between Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final involving West Ham United<\/a> and Leeds<\/a>, and Manchester City<\/a>‘s 4-0 win over Liverpool<\/a> a day earlier was stark.<\/p>\n

While Craig Pawson added 11 minutes on at the London Stadium, allowing the hosts to come from 2-0 down in that period to force extra time and a penalty shootout, Michael Oliver did not add on a single second in the tie at Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n

Social media was awash with supporters asking how Oliver could just ignore the laws of the game and choose to play no added time.<\/p>\n

After all, there were two goals and six stoppages for substitutions in a game that that was eventually settled 4-2 on penalties<\/a> in Leeds<\/a>‘ favour.<\/p>\n

But it is far from unusual in cup games where a match is effectively over.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago Pierluigi Collina, Fifa’s head of referees, was talking about added time and when it might be acceptable to cut it short.<\/p>\n

The Italian made a good point. He said in cup ties that have no likelihood whatsoever of the outcome changing, blowing up early can be OK.<\/p>\n

But Collina also pointed out that should never be the case in a league game, because goal difference can always be crucial.<\/p>\n

Zero added time is not seen very often in England, but Uefa referees are told they can end a match bang on time if there is nothing to be gained by playing on. Oliver is, of course, a Fifa and Uefa referee.<\/p>\n

Take a look at a couple of Champions League games last month.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a>‘s tie with Paris St-Germain and Barcelona against Newcastle<\/a> both had no added time, with the English sides losing by aggregate scores of 8-2 and 8-3 respectively.<\/p>\n

Once you look at the stoppages in the West Ham<\/a> game, you can see the 11 minutes was justifiable.<\/p>\n

Three minutes for treatment to Adama Traore and Joe Rodon<\/p>\n

Two minutes while the physios came on for Pablo and Jaka Bijol<\/p>\n

Three minutes for the penalty after a video assistant referee (VAR) check<\/p>\n

One minute while Noah Okafor was checked out for an injury<\/p>\n

Plus two substitutes, a couple of VAR checks and other delays.<\/p>\n

So while it might have appeared excessive, it was explainable.<\/p>\n

“When we are ever in the lead it feels like a crazy amount of time on it,” said Leeds<\/a> boss Daniel Farke afterwards. “When we are chasing a game it feels like it is only three minutes. <\/p>\n

“You have to deal with it and it is up to the officials to decide. I’m used to accepting the officials decisions and I try to not complain about it. It is what it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The difference in injury time between Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final involving West Ham United and Leeds, and Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-588025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}