maybe someone could explain the bug.
It's quite easy.
All matches are previously simulated, the simulation ends around 45 before the kickoff. When simulation is over you can see many things:
If you have a player in NT, you can see how much condition your player lost, or if he were injured, just go to your club's tactics, you will notice that your NT player's condition dropped (or health changed) before the kickoff.
If you are premium user, you can also see your team's report, and you can see your NT player's level, that will give you a clue about his morale (you can track his level to realize if he played well or not).
But the more important thing is that matches URL are easy to detect and those URL aren't hidden:Semi Final matches's ID were 19502 and 19503, so... what would be the next NT match? Pretty easy: 19504, and this is the final match's url:
http://www.gokickoff.com/nation_match_detail.php?match_id=19504And as you can see, Argentina was still playing overtime against Thailand (system clock says 15:55 UTC), but the match was at any user's sight:
The bug is SO simple that it is surprising that it took so much time to somebody to realize about it.... it's been 3 or 4 seasons since it were discovered, and still it isn't fixed.
The solution seems to be really tough.... making a match's url unavailable until 16 UTC should require thousands of line code, that should be the only reason that nobody fixed it yet