The season end Table of Shame & Best and Worst Referee of the Season

30 Replies to “The season end Table of Shame & Best and Worst Referee of the Season”

1. Too late to cry when the head is off.
   Save your energy for the upcoming season!

2. I don’t know if it’s allowed but somebody got to do what Adam Sandler did to the ref in the movie “The longest yard”. Probably then the refs might call a fair game. But otherwise I would it’s daylight robbery of what’s supposed to be our title. Hope next year is our year. Can’t wait for it to start. The Euro madness is not like what it used to be in the previous years from a neutrals point of view. And especially after the Sep/ Platini revelation it sucks even more.

3. Okeymarx, well on that basis, all analysis of the past is pointless. So how on earth do we learn how to do things better?

4. I think no one is perfect and I do not think arsenal is the only club been robbed in almost all matches as all your ref review analysis do intend to implies…. if you are giving a whistle and blow a match, a team that losses will bring out more than 10 wrong calls from you at the centre and also, a neutral person will see wrong calls from you being the refree…..yes it might be true some refrees do not like Arsenal but not all matches was Arsenal been robbed or not favoured…… some times we too see what are players play and know they didnt play well at that match……

5. Competition for worst referee is very strong, with numerous contenders. Statistics apart, my view is that Mike Dean stands out as being by far the worst. This view is based not just on his wrong decisions against us, but also on his barely concealed delight when he is screwing us!

6. olad
   June 14, 2016 at 8:59 am

   The point of this article is not that Arsenal is being singled out for poor refereeing of matches they play in.

   This is just one example of persistent poor refereeing in face of Mike Riley’s claim
   that referees under his control get at least 95% of their decisions right in every game.

   Believe that and its OK to believe in fairies.

   It is OK to believe that claims without evidence are correct.

   It is OK to believe that claims with evidence to back up the claims are wrong.

   Your world – not mine.

7. Almost certainly not in my earthly lifetime, but I still look forward to the day when technology will guarantee integrity in the duties of football match officials.

8. Make a video!
   A picture speaks more than a thousand words.

   Even though I am in agreement that Arsenal get treated ridiculously unfairly, reading these detailed articles every summer I’ve realized how they sound like complaints and excuses even if they were 100% objective… it sounds like whinning and its easy for many readers to just stop reading 2 paragraphs into it.

   My point is visuals won’t come off as exageration, but writting will.

9. “By my count a minimum of 31 points.”

   So you believe we should have had a minimum of 102 points – a total no team in the history of the PL – including the Invincibles – has achieved. I’m sorry, Andrew, but I find that preposterous. We certainly had a team good enough to win the league – but we weren’t that good.

   “Fernandinho should have been sent off four times with second yellow cards.”

   Generally, when a player is carded he changes his behaviour to avoid a second card. These analyses assume nothing changes in any game where a player should have been carded, but wasn’t – and should have been sent off for a second not-given card, had he been carded the first time.

   “Arsenal scored the only valid goal in the [Swansea home] game and should have won.”

   You’re assuming that had Swansea had their 2 goals disallowed, nothing else would have changed.

   “With Costa sent off in Min 33 when the score was nil all there is no way way we would have lost the game. Three points to the referee.”

   Teams with 10 men have won games or drawn them.

10. Robert
    That’s 31 points and rising. A few weeks ago it was “only” 29. By the time the next season starts it will probably be up to 40.
    It’s very clever that Andrew says “possible cost in points….31”, so it could equally possibly be only one point.

11. @Andrew,
    Excellent work this year and thank you for keeping track of all these matches throughout the year.

    @Robert & Leon,
    Well if the usual mantra that it all evens out in the end was true, of the 31 points that were taken away, Arsenal should have gained at least 15 points and that would have been enough to win the league. Everything is not always black and white.

    OT: looks like Blatter is singing like a canary, and admits witnessing at least one European tournament was fixed, but continues to claim he did nothing wrong as President.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ex-fifa-president-sepp-blatter-8184465

12. Nicky

    I don’t know about guaranteed integrity, that’s a difficult one, but video tech is starting in cup competitions next season, which hopefully is in your lifetime.

13. @Leon,
    OK my friend, you’ve convinced me to stay on for another season in the hope that things will improve. 😉

14. Jerry
    Not sure about the evening out thing.
    Probably not truth be told.
    What I find really annoying is that people don’t know (or don’t care) when they’re having their winkies pulled.

15. Unacceptable.

    To those saying so are you saying we would have finished on 102 points….you’re missing the point; it’s not guaranteed we would have won the games but at least give us those points back and also take away those the other teams were gifted, and chances are we easily get more than the 10 points Leicester beat us by. It’s daft to think we’d still have gone on to lose all the matches in which these 31 points were stolen from us.

    Rupert, serge, tailgunner, sorry, you_know_you_are, I’m still trying to figure you out. You’re a little too vocal for someone who had been passive on these boards all these years, don’t you think 🙂

16. Anyway, when the sun did an almost ‘similar’ analysis and adjusted the points in only 3 of our games they found we should have crowned champions. 3 games only…. Ive no doubt that if they had been thorough their total would have been closer to Andrew’s, but that’s besides the point, which is that we should have won the title without referee bias.

17. Al
    Re your 1.41 post
    It looks as though you’re saying that you don’t mind being lied to as long as it’s the “truth” that you want. That’s really, really sad.
    I’m not denying that we would have won the PL with better refereeing, just not by that much.
    This web site gives a much fairer view of how it should have been. 75pts to Arsenal & 72 to Leicester. http://thehpl.net/1450-2/
    You’re getting boring with all that Rupert etc stuff. Take it up with Tony.
    Anyone else would call you a cnut, but I’m far too polite.

18. Leon,

    The HPL site uses only the incorrect goals and penalties that are discussed within mainstream football media (which leave out tons of decisions.)

    “A weekly Matchday review of the crunch calls is compiled by father and son outfit, Harry and Louis Pratt, using expert punditry opinion, gathered from Sky Sports, Match of the Day, BT Sport, TalkSPORT etc., to assess the rights and wrongs. Where this is unavailable, split or missed, HP and LP may or may not intervene with deciding vote.”

    Whereas we discuss every single decision major or minor. Even if you take 1/3 of the possible cost in points, it still points us in winning the league. And that is without taking refereeing performances in Leicester’s matches.

19. Usama Zaka
    C’m now those figures of Andrew’s are massive over estimates at the best.
    33 pens? In our best ever “penalty” season we only got 10.
    17 red cards?. Nobody gets that many given against opponents.
    But the big joke it the 31 points.
    I’d suggest Harry & Louis are no more than enthusiastic amateurs.
    I’m not denying we were hard done by and should have won the PL fairly, but not with those stats.

20. Leon,

    Its not about whether nobody can get this much or that much in reality. Its about what should have been when things are added up decision by decision, match by match.

    For all the 33 penalties and the direct 17 red cards I have clear live footage and they are backed by a referee.. Walter Broeckx, and can be further referenced with the Laws of the Game 2015-16. I am planning to make compilations of it, but it will take time. You can ignore/not believe/believe these figures, its your choice.

21. Thanks Andrew.

    I think the call on worse ref is a difficult one. There are so many to choose from. Maybe Clatters deserves the title for the number of Arsenal players he SEES being injured – and ignores with his customary smile/shrug of shoulders.

    The way he messed about with the penalty against WBA – moving the ball from where it was placed – was the least Injurous of his deeds. Thing is, he appears to be closer to where the fouls are committed than his colleagues, so in my opinion scores highly on ‘keeping a straight face’, as when Ade stamped on RvP face, drawing blood, but didn’t call a foul. Or the totty player who smashed Theo’s achilles, (followed by D Rose’s assault, which Clat wasn’t close to), that put Walcott out for a year, just when he was beginning to shining, CF like. (There are so many more, too).

    Still, despite his Stella reffing of Chelsea v Tott he got the both domestic and euro finals. This means he’s an excellent ref, innit?

    Johnny Moss seems to have had to learn from a different hymn book!
    Deano: I thought his campest moment was early season when at totty, reffing against Villa. When Totty scored did he not put both hands in the air and sprint back to half way? Subtle? I don’t think so.
    Aston Taylor, true to form. Atkers? Aw, I can’t go on.

    Imagine, Arsenal finished 2nd. Despite….

    Arsenal ref pre/review teams: First Place.

22. Usama
    Ok, I’ll leave it at that. No point in making a bigger issue out of it.

23. It’s entirely your choice to resort to name-calling,leon. But deep down, you know who’s telling the truth with regards to both the cost in points from biased refereeing as well as some users posting under different names.

24. I think the worst ref for me has got to be one of Atkinson or dean, both men are are just too arrogant.. they are very blatant about it too, and don’t seem to care what people will think (dean has even stuck two fingers up at our fans inside the ems!). I feel these two loathe Arsenal, that for them it’s a personal thing.

    I think clattenburg just wanted to curry favour with his paymasters, as he had found himself on the wrong side too often, and wanted to please them so he goes to the euros. Taylor is a dean-wannabe. The rest are just trying to ensure they stay relevant and aren’t relegated to the championship.

25. May I also add that I suspect clattenburg might be the next one to do a Halsey and reject the silence money. I think he enjoys being in the limelight too much, to allow himself to just fade away or to continue towing the line after retirement (if he has defied them a few times while still under contract it can only get worse when he is’free’).

    I think he will enjoy talking to the media a lot, and hanging with ex players etc, can’t wait for his retirement, and hopefully he won’t disappoint 🙂

26. An excellent article Andrew and many thanks again for all your reports and also the ref reviews by Usama and Walter.

    I agree that Clattenburg was the most disappointing referee of the season, partially because he once upon a time seemed to to be a competent ref & has either let himself go, or has succumbed to pressure.

    But, the most imbecillic performance in my view, the worst of the worst of the worst, has to be that of Dean away to Chelski – where he invoked the most obvious deliberate deviance from the rules of the game and any sense of fairness or competence. In doing so he took his own integrity and reputation to a new low. In schools football or pub football we would expect a lot better from the ref – but this performance in the PL was unbelievable – also unbelievable was the FA reaction i.e. fa!!!

27. All I know is football is a game of contact and I believe not all contacts are call for and not all contacts should be given a card…….i will like you to watch the match between austria vs hungary been played yesterday and see how the ref open up the game for the 2 teams becos men football is played by men and not women…..Moreso, I will like to see your ref review when arsenal still have players like viera, petit, gilberto, lauren, toure, campbell and co compare to Arsenal players in the last 8 years….

28. The Dean performance spelt it all out.

    No amount of trolling can dress that turd up. you can attempt to attach some fancy bells and official whistles if you like but the stench was smelt by any football fan who watched that match.

    There it was. Clear and present.

29. Thanks for all the work, Andrew. Whoever said we did very well to finish second – never a truer word.

    Worst referee debate – Dean gets it for me. 100,000 Arsenal fans agree.

    Al re Clattenburg – hope you’re right! Al re Leon – I agree.

30. It seems to me that Clattenburg has done a deal with the devil this season and in return was rewarded with the FA & Champions League finals.