[goldstategop]

Its always been a tradition.

People really don’t pay attention to the clock.

There is always going to be extra time. :)

[Steve_Seattle]

"People really don’t pay attention to the clock."

As an American, that always been one of my issues with soccer. American football and basketball are timed down to the tenth of a second, we have instant-replay to correct timing errors, and those tenths-of-a-second sometimes make a difference. Soccer's Medieval sense of timekeeping has always bothered me. If they don't care about accurate time, why don't they just use an hourglass?