Untold Ref review: Fulham 2 – Man City 2

By Ref Reviewer 03

Fulham played Manchester City, the final score was 2-2 and the ref was Mark Clattenburg once again.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
1	OTHER	Sidwell	Barry	C	Foul	1	1
2	OTHER	Silva	Dembele	C	Foul	1	1
3	OTHER	Sidwell	Aguero	NC	Pulled on his arm, dispossesed – not given	0	0
7	OFFSIDE	Dzeko		C		1	1
7	OTHER	Clichy	Duff	C	Slid in on Duff	1	1
8	OTHER	Dempsey	Richards	C	Blatant shove	1	1
9	OTHER			NC	Throw-in wrongly awarded to Fulham.  Nasri was even slightly fouled in possession, ball last went off a fulham player.	0	0
13	OTHER	Dempsey	YaYa	C	Tripping	1	1
13	OTHER	Kelly	Clichy	C	Tripping	1	1
15	OTHER	Zamora	Clichy	C	Shoving	1	1
18	GOAL			C	Aguero just barely onside.  Arms and hands don’t count for offside, legs and feet do	1	3
19	OTHER	Richards	Dembele	C	Played the opponent, not the ball	1	1
20	OFFSIDE	Zamora		C		1	1
28	PENALTY	Dembele	Dzeko	NC	Dembele strongly took hold of Dzeko’s shirt in the area from a corner – not given	0	0
32	OTHER	Sidwell	Barry	C	Advantage played	1	1
39	OTHER	Nasri	Sidwell	C	Tripping	1	1
39	YELLOW	Nasri		NC	Nasri’s trip looked as if it may have been intentional to break up a scoring chance	0	0
42	OTHER			NC	Throw-in wrongly awarded to Man City.	0	0
43	OTHER	Duff	Aguero	NC	Shoving – not given	0	0
	Half time					13	15
			CORRECT			68,42%	62,50%
	YELLOW				0	1	0,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	1	0,00
	GOAL				1	1	100,00
	OTHER				0	0
					1	3	33,33
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
	Second half
46	GOAL			C	Aguero – goal okay	1	3
48	OFFSIDE	Duff		C	Very close call, can’t judge from angle, assumed correct.	1	1
48	OFFSIDE	Aguero		C	Linesman correct – goal disallowed	1	1
49	OTHER	Lescott	Zamora	C	Foul	1	1
49	OTHER	Murphy	Aguero	NC	Pushed Aguero to win ball – not given	0	0
49	OTHER	Barry	Murphy	C	Obstruction – waited first to see if advantage developed	1	1
50	OTHER	Richards		C	Hand ball – arms extended from the body	1	1
55	OTHER	Richards		C	Improper throw-in – seemed okay but quite possibly lifted a foot – assumed correct	1	1
55	GOAL			C	Zamora – goal okay	1	3
57	OTHER	Zamora	Lescott	C	Foul	1	1
59	OTHER	Barry	Dembele	C	Barry went through Dembele to win the ball	1	1
59	YELLOW	Barry		C	This was dangerous play – yellow card	1	2
67	OTHER	Sidwell	Dzeko	C	Foul from behind	1	1
70	OTHER	Sidwell	Dzeko	NC	Blatant trip from behind just outside the area overlooked by ref	0	0
70	OTHER	Ya Ya	Dembele	C	Slight trip	1	1
74	OTHER	Kelly	Dzeko	NC	Kicked Dzeko’s leg so he couldn’t play the ball – not given	0	0
75	GOAL	Murphy		NC	Fulham went and scored right after the ignored foul on Dzeko – goal should not have stood	0	0
77	OTHER	Dempsey	Nasri	C	Trip	1	1
79	OTHER	Sidwell	Nasri	C	Trip/Pull	1	1
79	OTHER	Sidwell	Nasri	C	Tripping	1	1
85	OTHER	Sidwell	Zabableta	NC	Lunged in dangerously studs up to win the ball – ref played advantage but should have stopped play to book Sidwell	0	0
85	YELLOW	Sidwell		NC	Yellow not given for above, ref should also consider persistant fouling by Sidwell	0	0
86	OTHER	Sidwell	Tevez	C	Slid in from behind got ball and player – advantage played	1	1
88	OTHER	Hangeland	Richards	NC	Looked like normal jostling for the ball	0	0
90+3	OTHER	Richards	Ruiz	C	Shove	1	1
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					18	23
	%		CORRECT			72,00%	69,70%
	YELLOW				1	2	50,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	0
	GOAL				2	3	66,67
	OTHER				1	3	33,33
					4	8	50,00
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					31	38
	%		CORRECT			70,45%	66,67%
	YELLOW				1	3	33,33
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY				0	1	0,00
	GOAL				3	4	75,00
	OTHER				1	3	33,33
					5	11	45,45
	OFFSIDE				4	4	100,00
	Correct calls		For Fulham		15	45,45%
			For Man City		18	54,55%
			Total correct calls		33
	Wrong calls		Against Fulham		2	16,67%
			Against Man City		10	83,33%
			Total		12

The ref  was Mark Clattenburg and as you can see he didn’t rate well on the day.  He ended up with a final score of just above 70% in right calls, only getting roughly half of the major decisions correct.  Wrong calls were heavily in favour of Fulham by a 10 to 2 margin, and Steve Sidwell was especially lucky not to have been booked in this match.

Manchester City had a penalty shout in the 28th minute when Dembele grabbed Dzeko’s jersey in the penalty area.  Perhaps it was a bit away from where the ball went, but it seemed fairly blatant and right in front of the ref.

But the most controversial decision on the day was an ignored foul on Dzeko by Stephen Kelly.  The Fulham defender came in from behind on Dzeko, kicked his leg as he was about to play the ball and gave a shove in the back.  Clattenburg ignored the foul and Fulham equalised immediately afterwards with a strike by Danny Murphy.

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