Ref review 2012/13: Mark Clattenburg – good on red poor on yellow

By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article.  __________________________   For the next ref in our series we have ref Mark Clattenburg.  Ref Clattenburg has been in the PL since 2004 and is a FIFA …

Le philosophe et le professeur: looking though Arsène Wenger’s eyes

By Le Mouton Noir Soixante-trois   One of the constant brickbats hurled at our illustrious manager is that he supposedly only sees incidents on the pitch he wants to see and conveniently ignores those dubious decisions that work in Arsenal’s favour. Indeed in 2009 the ever reliable Daily Mirror wrote a whole piece entitled “I did …

Cheating isn’t winning

CHEATING ISN’T WINNING by Don McMahon There has been an enormous amount of effort and reflection devoted to the phenomena of cheating and the consequences of such behaviour on sites like UA and others worldwide. Most civilized people deplore, at least publicly, the extent and existence of dishonesty, whether it is plagiarism or data manipulation …