Untold Ref Review: Bolton Wanderers 3 – 1 Liverpool

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Today’s referee is Kevin Friend – This review can also bring some perspective to our goalless draw this week as one of our competitors for the 4th spot went under at Bolton. But we are here to read about the ref.

MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Kevin Friend (2012-01-21)
Period 1
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
2	OTHER	Ngog	Enrique	C		1
3	GOAL	Davis		C		3
4	OTHER	Eagles	Agger	N/C	He lost the ball and dived, Ref wrongly saw a foul	1
6	OTHER	Adam	Eagles	C		1
8	OTHER	Gerrard	Steinsson	C		1
9	OTHER	Maxi		C	Handball	1
15	OTHER	Adam	Reo Coker	C		1
19	OTHER	Bellamy	Knight	C		1
20	OTHER	Eagles	Maxi	C		1
22	OFFSIDE	Carroll		C		1
27	OTHER	Wheater	Carroll	C		1
29	GOAL	Reo Coker		C		3
30	OTHER	Ngog	Agger	C		1
33	OTHER	Enrique	Eagles	N/C	It was the other way, Eagles was all over Enrique, Dalglish is apopleptic with anger	1
34	OTHER	Reo Coker	Adam	C		1
36	GOAL	Bellamy		C		3
37	OTHER	Bellamy	Reo Coker	C		1
42	OFFSIDE	Bellamy		N/C	He was in line	1
43	OFFSIDE	Bellamy		C		1
47	OTHER	Adam	Ngog	C		1
Period 2
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
46	OTHER	Muamba	Adam	C	Trip	1
50	GOAL			C	Steinsson ? Goal okay	3
54	OTHER	Gerrard	Ricketts	NC	Pulled arm ? not given	1
58	OTHER	Maxi		C	Handball	1
62	OTHER	Enrique	Eagles	C	Hooked arm a bit	1
62	YELLOW	Enrique		C	Perhaps a bit harsh but stopped a counter	2
63	OTHER	Steinsson	Bellamy	NC	Push ? not given	1
63	OTHER	Adam	Reo-Coker	C	Ran into Reo	1
73	OTHER	Reo-Coker	Gerrard	NC	Checked/Tripped Gerrard ? not given	1
73	OTHER	Gerrard	Reo-Coker	NC	Strangely the ref gives the foul against Gerrard	1
73	YELLOW	Reo-Coker		NC	Denied scoring chance ? should have been booked	2
73	OTHER	Ngog	Skrtel	C	Pulled him	1
74	OTHER	Skrtel	Ngog	C	Foul	1
76	OFFSIDE	Kuyt		C	Assumed correct	1
79	OTHER	Ngog	Agger	C	Foul	1
81	OTHER	Skrtel		C	Handball ? advantage played	1
82	OTHER	Gerrard	Petrov	NC	Petrov went down under very minimal contact ? wrong call	1
88	OTHER	Agger	Ngog	C	Trip	1
90	OTHER	Muamba	Gerrard	C	Trip	1
90	OTHER	Wheater	Carroll	NC	Shove ? not given	1
91	OFFSIDE	Kuyt		C	Assumed correct	1
92	OTHER	Kuyt	M Davies	C	Boot to boot attempt to block shot	1
92	YELLOW	Kuyt		C	Dangerous play	2

This was new to The reviewing system, the first half was done by myself  02 and the second half by 03. I had the easy half; it was a poor half of football with nothing to report other than 3 goals. The second half things appear to have hotted up a bit, and Friend made more errors. This is consistent with a number of reviews we have done this year, good first half’s and poor second half’s for the Refs. I Know from experience that second half’s are often harder to manage than first half’s, tempers become frayed, players become frustrated as the game runs away from them, or they are more determined to defend their quarter regardless of outcome.

Anyway bottom line is, when the game got tetchy, Friend did as he always did, and responded poorly.

COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Kevin Friend (2012-01-21)
Period 1	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	3	3	100.00
OFFSIDE	2	3	66.67
OTHER	12	14	85.71
TOTAL	17	20	85.00
WEIGHTED	22	25	88.00
Period 2	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	1	1	100.00
OFFSIDE	2	2	100.00
OTHER	11	17	64.71
YELLOW	2	3	66.67
TOTAL	16	23	69.57
WEIGHTED	20	28	71.43
Totals	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	4	4	100.00
OFFSIDE	4	5	80.00
OTHER	23	31	74.19
YELLOW	2	3	66.67
TOTAL	33	43	76.74
WEIGHTED	42	53	79.25

Like our reviewers said the first half still ok but the second half his score dropped.

BIAS SUMMARY – Kevin Friend (2012-01-21)
Period 1	Bolton Wanderers	%	Liverpool	%	Total
Correct For	11	64.71	6	35.29	17
Correct For Weighted	15	65.22	8	34.78	23
Incorrect Against	0	0.00	3	100.00	3
Incorrect Against Weighted	0	0.00	3	100.00	3
Fouls Commited	6	50.00	6	50.00	12
Fouls Penalised	5	83.33	6	100.00	11
Period 2	Bolton Wanderers	%	Liverpool	%	Total
Correct For	12	75.00	4	25.00	16
Correct For Weighted	16	80.00	4	20.00	20
Incorrect Against	1	14.29	6	85.71	7
Incorrect Against Weighted	1	12.50	7	87.50	8
Fouls Commited	7	46.67	8	53.33	15
Fouls Penalised	4	57.14	7	87.50	11
Totals	Bolton Wanderers	%	Liverpool	%	Total
Correct For	23	69.70	10	30.30	33
Correct For Weighted	31	72.09	12	27.91	43
Incorrect Against	1	10.00	9	90.00	10
Incorrect Against Weighted	1	9.09	10	90.91	11
Fouls Commited	13	48.15	14	51.85	27
Fouls Penalised	9	69.23	13	92.86	22

If we look at the wrong calls it was clear to see that for the first time since a long time Liverpool was on the wrong end of things. Maybe Dalglish will have to go back to Mike Riley once again like he did at the start of the season?