Was 11 Minutes Of Stoppage Time At West Ham Excessive?

The quality successful wounded clip betwixt Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final involving West Ham United and Leeds, and Manchester City's 4-0 triumph complete Liverpool a time earlier was stark.

While Craig Pawson added 11 minutes connected astatine nan London Stadium, allowing nan hosts to travel from 2-0 down successful that play to unit other clip and a punishment shootout, Michael Oliver did not adhd connected a azygous 2nd successful nan necktie astatine Etihad Stadium.

Social media was awash pinch supporters asking really Oliver could conscionable disregard nan laws of nan crippled and take to play nary added time.

After all, location were 2 goals and six stoppages for substitutions successful a crippled that that was yet settled 4-2 connected penalties successful Leeds' favour.

But it is acold from different successful cup games wherever a lucifer is efficaciously over.

A mates of years agone Pierluigi Collina, Fifa's caput of referees, was talking astir added clip and erstwhile it mightiness beryllium acceptable to trim it short.

The Italian made a bully point. He said successful cup ties that person nary likelihood whatsoever of nan result changing, blowing up early tin beryllium OK.

But Collina besides pointed retired that should ne'er beryllium nan lawsuit successful a convention game, because extremity quality tin ever beryllium crucial.

Zero added clip is not seen very often successful England, but Uefa referees are told they tin extremity a lucifer bang connected clip if location is thing to beryllium gained by playing on. Oliver is, of course, a Fifa and Uefa referee.

Take a look astatine a mates of Champions League games past month.

Chelsea's necktie pinch Paris St-Germain and Barcelona against Newcastle some had nary added time, pinch nan English sides losing by aggregate scores of 8-2 and 8-3 respectively.

Once you look astatine nan stoppages successful nan West Ham game, you tin spot nan 11 minutes was justifiable.

Plus 2 substitutes, a mates of VAR checks and different delays.

So while it mightiness person appeared excessive, it was explainable.

"When we are ever successful nan lead it feels for illustration a crazy magnitude of clip connected it," said Leeds leader Daniel Farke afterwards. "When we are chasing a crippled it feels for illustration it is only 3 minutes.

"You person to woody pinch it and it is up to nan officials to decide. I'm utilized to accepting nan officials decisions and I effort to not kick astir it. It is what it is."