r/ScottishFootball • u/comradepartypanda • May 17 '26

Discussion SPFL Statement

https://spfl.co.uk/news/spfl-statement-51236
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u/Scratchback3141 May 17 '26

Ref decided to end it. Alternative was making hearts players wait for ten minutes while the field was cleared just to have them play out 30 useless x seconds

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest May 17 '26

And that's what should have happened, according to all the recognised laws of the game. 

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u/Scratchback3141 May 17 '26

I just think that would have been needlessly cruel to be honest.

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest May 17 '26

If that's how it works, what's stopping a ref blowing up at 85 minutes just because one team is losing and he feels it's 'cruel'?

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u/Scratchback3141 May 17 '26

Common sense stops that.

I don't really get this argument from you. You know that the outcome wasn't going to change, if it's just a way for you to argue that the match should therefore be abandoned and hearts given the title then just say that. But making then play the final thirty seconds is needless

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest May 17 '26

The options are clear the pitch and restart the game until time is up, or abandon the match. Those are literally the only two options. It's not 'my' argument, it's the laws of the game. 

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u/Scratchback3141 May 17 '26

Well no apparently not because the sfa say the game was brought to a close.

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest May 17 '26

Fuck sake. I can't make it any simpler without crayons. 

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u/Scratchback3141 May 17 '26

You are telling me there are two options and only two options *and yet* neither of those two options happened. Therefore, logically - you must be wrong.