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By Ref reviewer 02
For the game between Stoke and Liverpool we had ref Clattenburg in charge. How was his performance?
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight |
| 1 | Foul | Carragher | Crouch | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | Foul | Crouch | Carragher | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | Foul | Delap | Suarez | N/C | Ref misses Delap follow through on Suarez | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Penalty | Shawcross | Kuyt | N/C | Shawcross is literally hugging Kuyt, both arms around his chest | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Foul | Delap | Adam | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Foul | Adam | Whitehead | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Foul | Skrtel | Crouch | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Penalty | Skrtel | N/C | Skrtel is pulling the shirt off stoke player, the theme continues | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Foul | Walters | Agger | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 12 | Penalty appeal | Delap | C | Liverpool want a pen for a header against Delaps hand, no way says ref | 1 | 3 | |
| 14 | Foul | Suarez | Huth | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 17 | Foul | Kuyt | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19 | Foul | Walters | Carragher | N/C | Ref misses a push push from Walters | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Penalty | Walters | N/C | After backing in Walters waits for the inevitable arm from Carragher and falls to the ground, blatant cheating | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 | Offside | Kuyt | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 23 | Offside | Walters | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 23 | Foul | Wilson | Suarez | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 31 | Foul | Suarez | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 32 | Foul | Adam | Pennant | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 34 | Penalty | Etherington | Skrtel | N/C | poor challenge Skrtel beats him to the ball, ref misses it, prob because Skrtel gets his shot away | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Yellow | Etherington | N/C | Challenge was certaily worth a yellow | 0 | 0 | |
| 36 | Offside | Crouch | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 38 | Other | Adam | Whitehead | N/C | Adam is pushing whitehead in back, ref gives a throw to Liverpool instead of foul to Stoke | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Handball | Enrique | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 38 | Yellow | Enrique | N/C | His recation was worth a yellow, every other game I have reviewed this would have been yellow | 0 | 0 | |
| 39 | Foul | Whitehead | Adam | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 44 | Foul | Delap | Suarez | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | Foul | Whitehead | Adam | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 46 | Other | Adam | N/C | Ref watches as Walters battles hard but fair for the ball, Adam kicks out at him, should have been a foul to Stoke | 0 | 0 | |
| 46 | Yellow | Adam | N/C | Adam should have been cautioned | 0 | 0 | |
| 46 | Foul | Lucas | Etheringtn | C | 1 | 1 | |
| Half time | 20 | 24 | |||||
| CORRECT | 64,52% | 55,81% | |||||
| YELLOW | 0 | 3 | 0,00 | ||||
| RED | |||||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 5 | 20,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| TOTAL | 1 | 10 | 10,00 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | ||||
| Second half | |||||||
| 50 | Other | C | Big handball appeal from Liverpool on edge of box, no way | 1 | 1 | ||
| 52 | Offside | Crouch | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 55 | Foul | Crouch | Skrtel | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 56 | Foul | Adam | Whitehead | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 57 | Foul | Walters | Adam | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 58 | Offside | Pennant | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 60 | Foul | Henderson | Whitehead | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 60 | Other | C | A great advantage by the ref allows a Liverpool break, they have 5 shots in 7 seconds. Great reffing | 1 | 1 | ||
| 66 | Offside | Pennant | C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 67 | Foul | Upson | Carroll | C | I wish refs were consistent if this is a foul thre are 10 penalties a match at least | 1 | 1 |
| 79 | Foul | Wilkinson | Agger | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 85 | Other | C | Another big handball shout from Lpool, no way again | 1 | 3 | ||
| 88 | Foul | Shawcross | Carroll | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 88 | Foul | Carroll | Shawcross | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 90 | Other | C | Again a penalty appeal from Lpool, again the ref is right | 1 | 3 | ||
| 92 | Foul | Walters | Adam | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 93 | Foul | Enrique | Pennant | C | 1 | 1 | |
| 2nd half score | |||||||
| TOTAL | 17 | 19 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 100,00% | 100,00% | ||||
| YELLOW | 0 | 0 | |||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 0 | 0 | |||||
| OTHER | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | ||||
| TOTAL | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | ||||
| TOTAL SCORE | |||||||
| TOTAL | 37 | 43 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 77,08% | 69,35% | ||||
| YELLOW | 0 | 3 | 0,00 | ||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PENALTY | 2 | 6 | 33,33 | ||||
| GOAL | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| 2 | 11 | 18,18 | |||||
| OFFSIDE | 6 | 6 | 100,00 | ||||
| Correct calls | For Stoke | 14 | 37,84% | ||||
| For Liverpool | 23 | 62,16% | |||||
| Total correct calls | 37 | ||||||
| Wrong calls | Against Stoke | 3 | 33,33% | ||||
| Against Liverpool | 6 | 66,67% | |||||
| Total | 9 | ||||||
A Game of two halves from Referee Mark Clattenburg, a ref I like, he is usually in control of his game, sadly today his errors were match defining, no Referee likes to see that. Stoke started the game at a high tempo and did what they like to do, making the game as difficult to ref as possible, in the second half they were happy just to keep bodies behind the ball, watching Liverpool become more and more frustrated.
Shawcross and Skrtel both were guilty of greater holding in the box than that which led to the Stoke penalty, and Etherington was late and lucky on his challenge on Skrtel in the box.
No bookings in the game, something I struggled with, Clattenburg seemed determined to let the game flow and keep his cards in his pockets, even for incidents if dissent. Clearly he has not been watching other games this season where dissent has been clamped down on very consistently.
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Wow, in the first half only one out of the ten big decisions adjudged correctly. Reading the ref review, I can understand Dalglish’s frustration with the ref, for this match at least. Two valid penalty claims not given, and one dive from Stoke awarded with a penalty, although they in fact did miss out on a penalty earlier on as well.
I have actually looked through the previous Liverpool ref reviews after Dalglish’s comments and based on those reviews it does not look like Liverpool is unfairly treated by the refs.
I have just watched the Walters penalty incident again and must say it is more of a penalty than the one given against us when Eboue “bumped over” Lucas. When Wenger complained Kenny told him to piss off – so I don’t have much sympathy for them this time round.
Dalgleish is busy with a PR campaign as a pre-emptive move and the media is happy to support him, unlike what happens when Arsene has something to say about decisions.
I’ll put my hands up and admit to being dumb, but if all the pen decisions were correct and (for the sake of argument) scored, what would the final result have been? Also, if Mark Clattenburg was reffing the 1st half, who came out for the 2nd. This is a total reversal of what we saw last season (not bad 1st half, shocking 2nd)…
Interesting to see how both teams have roughly the same percentage of correc calls for and wrong calls against on this one, quite a balanced ref it seems.
@ Stevie E
I was so surprised by the second half performace i watched it twice. I concluded that the difference was the way Stoke played. The game was largely in their half, all they did was get bodies behind the ball, give nothing away, and watch Liverpool become frustrated. It was very professional, and just how a 1-0 should be defended. George Graham esque.
If you look from 67 to 79 minutes no incidents, only throw ins and corners, that shows just how disciplined Stoke were, and how clean they can play if they choose to.