Hydration breaks if needed and only when they’re needed need to be 1 minute long at most. We all know they’re 3 minutes long so they can commercialise them. It kills the momentum of the game and the atmosphere in the stadium. Don’t ever let this spread into our game over here
Jurgen Klopp has slammed the 2026 World Cup hydration breaks, claiming the sport is being "held hostage" by commercial interests 💧
Read more 🔗 goal.com/en/lists/jurgen-klo…
If we do have to have these hydration breaks, the teams should be made to stay on the pitch, perhaps in the 18yd box, and a nominated person, not on the coaching staff, should bring the drinks out to the players.
Prevent the mini quarter tactical breaks that they’ve turned into
Curacao, ranked 82nd in the world, have Germany, ranked 10th, on the ropes... but let's stop for a "hydration break" in an air-conditioned stadium.
What an absolute farce.
The 3 min hydration break at the World Cup, where the management are allowed to coach the team, we’re now (ostensibly) playing 4 quarters.
I know it’s there for warmer days👍, but I can’t help thinking it’s for U.S. TV advertising too.
Please don’t adopt this in our domestic game
When a ref’s standing waiting for a TV producer to tell him when he's allowed to restart a game, you've stopped running a football tournament & started running an ad break with football in between.
Sad thing is, the Premier League is watching & learning🤦♂️
I literally watched a match last night when all the players and officials were ready to restart after the first quarter hydration break. And they and the whole footballing world had to wait whilst the adverts finished before they could.
That’s not football
America has literally changed football matches in the World Cup into quarters, under the guise of hydration breaks, without anyone saying a word, right under our noses.
“Farsa”
Por este video que revela lo que REALMENTE sucede en la PAUSA DE HIDRATACIÓN, en donde los jugadores NO SE HIDRATAN, sino que solamente se quedan parados esperando A QUE TERMINEN LAS PUBLICIDADES para reanudar el partido.
All the players and officials ready to restart the game after their hydration break in the Qatar match.
They have to stand and wait whilst the music continues for another minute no doubt whilst adverts are being played on tv.
#shambles
America has literally changed football matches in the World Cup into quarters, under the guise of hydration breaks, without anyone saying a word, right under our noses.
I’m getting up at 1.45 am to watch our freckled faced, vegetable dodging neighbours from north of the border get a proper introduction to the World Cup by Haiti.
Bonjou and mesi
And for those saying it’s FIFA not US doing this. FIFA literally invented some plastic award to present to Trump before the tournament for no reason whatsoever.
Trump could ask and get anything off FIFA. And they’d bend over backwards to give it to him
America has literally changed football matches in the World Cup into quarters, under the guise of hydration breaks, without anyone saying a word, right under our noses.
America has literally changed football matches in the World Cup into quarters, under the guise of hydration breaks, without anyone saying a word, right under our noses.
Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.