Extending the game purely to allow something to be taken is NOT within the laws
Factually incorrect, not sure why you cannot accept this?
Tell me what restart can extend play within the laws except a penalty. You are choosing to take issue simply because it is your team involved on one occasion, whereas I am making the general point you fail to grasp.
Not at all - I can assure you that if it had been West Brom who scored from that corner I’d have made the same argument - assuming you would have brought it up on here, that is. It’s not like Liverpool - or any other team - have never conceded beyond the minimum time indicated!
In reply to your question here, I believe the answer is anything the referee sees fit. The only thing he cannot do in law is to end the match without an awarded penalty been taken.
In my opinion, your interpretation of the Law is wrong and would lead to much “gamesmanship” as in the scenario I gave you earlier. Time management is one thing and I would tend to agree with you on that. For example, if a referee decides there should be an additional 3m45s added time I’m pretty sure this would be rounded up to 4 minutes rather than indicating 3 as the minimum.
However, I don’t think - certainly as things stand - that time management is an exact science. Experienced referees, indeed anyone involved in football, has a feel for how much added time should be indicated - with 1 minute in the first half and three minutes in the second half standard (unless of course a team is winning 7-0 then only one additional minute will be played).
This is where I feel your argument falls and I think that Liverpool’s goal on Sunday is the perfect example. Mike Dean indicated a minimum of 4 and the corner was awarded on 93:52. The chances of there been exactly 4 minutes (in this or any other match) are extremely remote so it was quite reasonable - and within law - to allow that corner to be taken.
Free kick awarded 20 yards out on 93:35 with 4 indicated. Bit of messing around sorting your wall out and then “sorry fellas, times up”. That’s what you seem to be advocating and I don’t see how that would benefit football in the slightest.