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Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

Also, if you are gonna stop play, stop the fucking clock. It's pointless to keep it running and use stoppage time. Stop the fucking clock.

again, refer to fifa keeping the game as simple as possible as widely as possible. the ref has a stopwatch and is keeping an eye across the time, besides the 4th official who is also supposed to be totting up time. he, in turn, gets the ref to add time on after the 45.