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@Gregory
If I ruled the world, I'd keep first to 5, but make it that a team has to score 5 and win by 2 goals in order to stop the clock and be announced as winner- it would stop weak teams getting unneccesarily destroyed at a tournament 10-0 over a 10 or 12 minute timed game and would stop teams essentially shutting shop and playing with 3 defenders/goalies once they are leading by a single goal. It keeps things more exciting in tight games and there's more to play for for both the winning and losing teams at any given moment. I think timing games with unlimited goals is insanely tiring for successful teams/incredibly demoralizing for new or weaker teams and time consuming for qualifying stages at tournaments ie
Team A vs Team B- 5-1 within 2 minutes, A wins
Team A vs Team B- 5-3 after 7 mins, A wins
Team A vs Team B- 3-1 after 10 minutes, A wins
Team A vs Team B- 4-3 after 10 mins, play continues until A scores one and wins 5-3 or B scores 3 and wins 6-4
It may seem a little overly complex but people fucking love tennis, and looking at the brackets from Excel at the weekend- scenario D, play continues until a 2 goal lead, at the knock out stages would only have affected 4 games differently.