I'm a casual soccer fan, I admit it. There are things I think could be tweaked about the game.
Timing, however, is not one of them. What the fuck is wrong with the timing? There's no real argument against keeping the timing as-is except that some of you don't seem to understand it or like it for no real reason other than you want to see fixed numbers. The players and teams and coaches, they all know what the fuck is going on and can generally guess how much time will be added. It's not like they're shocked--SHOCKED--by seeing extra minutes added to the end of the half and thus they are scrambling to cope. Changing the timing is, to me, akin to suggesting baseball games end at exactly two hours and eighteen minutes, just because it's nice to know the exact time the game will end.
I can see adding another sub, but I also don't think it's something that is particularly wrong. Maybe there could be a reserve sub in cases of catastrophic injuries, but that could be gamed by someone going down with a "torn hamstring" that miraculously heals just after the match is over. Few subs means each team has to be match-fit or they will wilt. It's interesting. Anything that makes soccer more like NBA basketball is very, very, very, very, very much the wrong direction in my book.
I don't particularly like "diving," but I think it's more selling than diving. I'd like to see players stay on their feet or play on rather than take the foul. Like the dude in the Swiss-Ecuador game the other day. The Swiss had maybe 45 seconds to do something, their guy was taken out in a hard tackle, rolled over a couple times, popped up and ran HARD to keep the play going. The Ecuadorian defenders paused ever so slightly, expecting a whistle that never came, and the Swiss took advantage and scored the winning goal. It was brilliant. But that was managed by the ref, who didn't blow the whistle. Similarly, in the Mexico-Brazil game, the ref let them destroy each other for a while before he started calling fouls. I thought it was interesting and I definitely thought the players weren't expecting to get the foul called every time so they began to play on more often. But from what I could see, there were definitely fouls occurring that weren't being called. Not sure that's optimal for run of play, either.
I definitely think FIFA are on track in making one side wear light shorts and the other side wear dark shorts. (Oh wait, that's really stupid.)