Source: Eurosport
Hodgson against time-keeping changes
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson fears any changes to football's time-keeping system could end up with matches lasting as long as the Superbowl.
Hodgson has every sympathy with Manchester City boss Mark Hughes after Michael Owen snatched a dramatic winner for Manchester United six minutes into added time at the end of Sunday's pulsating derby.
Hughes was furious that referee Martin Atkinson had not blown the final whistle after signalling that a minimum of four extra minutes would be played.
But Hodgson rejected Hughes' suggestion of independent time-keepers and dismissed the idea that football follow the system used in rugby union, where the clock is paused for stoppages instead of time being added on at the end.
"If you want to have absolutely no discussion ever about time adding on, or if time is being wasted, you need to play effective time and that would change the game radically," said Hodgson.
"That would move us away from football as we know it and into the realms of ice hockey and American Football. An American Football match is played in four quarters over an hour - but you can be there for four hours. That suits America because the adverts come in every time there is a stoppage. I would be disappointed if football went down that route."
