I could swear on the past games have been restarted from a certain time when a team has been winning.CannockPricey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:11 pm Buxton were leading at Scunthorpe earlier in the season and the game was abandoned for a waterlogged pitch in second half injury time...replayed from start.
The precedent now seems to be if a game doesn't finish and clubs are blameless i.e. serious or life threatening injury, weather etc etc the game is replayed from the start.
If a side ran out of players a la Sheff Utd v West Brom Battle of Bramall Lane then that may well still be viewed differently.
Mind it's been so long I could easily be wrong, or the rules have changed since then.
In this day and age with the money to be made I can't imagine they'd ever start a match at the 65 minute mark, and it would be hard to get a crowd up for it for such a short game time so the atmosphere would be crap (would many people even attend?).
Product comes first and a full 90 trumps a 25 minute match every day of the week... Would be infuriating if you were 3-0 up though, game got abandoned and you lost the replayed fixture.
