Untold Ref Review: Chelsea 2 – 1 Wigan Athletic

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Today’s referee is Michael Jones –

MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Michael Jones (2012-04-07)
Period 1
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
3	OTHER	Di Santo	Luiz	C	push	1
4	OTHER	Ivanovic	Maloney	C	barged in to him	1
6	OFFSIDE	Wigan		C	assumed correct, no replay. Assistant 1	1
9	OTHER	Figueroa	Ivanovic	C	Trip	1
10	OTHER	Di Santo	Cole	NC	Assistant 1 signals a foul. No foul to be seen.	1
12	OTHER	Cahill	Di Santo	C	push	1
13	OTHER	Di Santo	Essien	C	push	1
13	YELLOW	Di Santo		C	ref warns him to calm down, 3rd foul in not yet 15 minutes	2
14	OTHER	Mereiles	Maloney	C	Trip	1
17	OTHER	Malouda	Boyce	C	tackle with both feet	1
19	OTHER	Mereiles	Moses	C	high foot	1
22	OTHER	Drogba	Alcaraz	C	not shown assumed correct	1
22	OTHER	Essien	Moses	C	trip	1
22	YELLOW	Essien		C	Cynical, no chance of playing the ball, possible promising attack, correct card	2
23	OTHER	Drogba	Caldwell	C	Drogba wr’apped his arm around Caldwell causing both of them to fall to the floor	1
25	OFFSIDE	Wigan		C	assumed correct, no replay. Assistant 1	1
28	PENALTY	Cahill		C	ball hits the arm when a cross is being made, from short distance and hit him more on the chest than on the arm, correct non decision	3
30	OTHER	Bertrand	Moses	NC	Clear trip to prevent Moses from running further, close to assistant 1, who does nothing	1
31	PENALTY	Caldwell	Drogba	C	had his arm around him for a moment but Drogba goes down very easy, correct non call	3
32	OTHER	Figueroa	Sturridge	NC	Push not given	1
33	OTHER	Ivanovic	Maloney	C	Trip	1
34	OTHER	Di Santo	Luiz	C	Trip	1
35	OFFSIDE	Wigan		C	correct	1
40	OTHER	Mereiles	Moses	C	tackle from behind	1
40	YELLOW	Mereiles		NC	going trough the man, promising attack, should have been a yellow card	2
43	OFFSIDE	Wigan		NC	Player was level with his closest defender, given by assistant 1	1
45	OTHER	Wigan	Bertrand	NC	Looked like a trip to me, not given	1
Period 2
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
49	OTHER	Essien	Di Santo	C	came in his back	1
51	OFFSIDE	Wigan		C	assumed correct	1
51	OFFSIDE	Chelsea		C	about 5 yards even a blind man would have seen that one	1
53	OTHER	Malouda	McCarthy	C	High foot	1
53	YELLOW	Malouda		C	studs showing is always dangerous	2
54	OTHER	Mereiles	Moses	C	Trip	1
56	OTHER	Moses	Bertrand	C	Push on the defender	1
59	OTHER	Moses		NC	Ref gives handball. Moses touched the ball with his hand but only because,,,	1
59	OTHER	Essien	Moses	NC	Essien kicks Moses between the legs and trips him and then Moses touches the ball with his hands	1
61	OTHER	Maloney	Ivanovic	C	tackle from behind	1
61	YELLOW	Maloney		C	promising attack, tackle from behind, correct card	2
62	OFFSIDE	Ivanovic		NC	Not given	1
62	GOAL	Chelsea		NC	ivanovic was clearly offside, assistant 1 misses it. Poor ref who has to face the whole Wigan team in protest	3
64	OTHER	Figueroa	Torres	NC	Figuero heads the ball away and Torres comes in with a leg at chest hight, should have been the othe way	1
64	YELLOW	Torres		NC	was dangerous should have been a yellow	2
64	YELLOW	Figueroa		NC	should have been the other way	2
66	OFFSIDE	Chelsea		NC	Assistant clearly has lot it	1
67	OTHER	Sturridge	Di Santo	C	Trip	1
72	OFFSIDE	Chelsea		C	assumed correct	1
75	PENALTY	Caldwell		NC	Came in to meet a cross with his arms outstrechted, should have been a penalty	3
75	OTHER	Figueroa	Mikel	C	clipped the defender	1
82	GOAL	Wigan		C	correct goal	3
84	OTHER			NC	Shot goes out from a chelsea defender, goal kick given	1
85	OTHER	Maloney	Ivanovic	NC	ivanovic first pushed him in the back, then Maloney tripped him. First foul should have been given. Close to assistant 1	1
88	OTHER	Mikel	Watson	NC	Came late not given	1
90	OTHER	Watson	Luiz	C	Push on the defender	1
93	OFFSIDE	Mata		NC	Torrest takes a shot on goal that hits the post, Mata is standing offside	1
93	GOAL	Chelsea		NC	The ball rebounds from the post and Mata who was standing offside when the inital shot was taken, takes advantage of his offside position to score. Should have been disallowed	3

What to make of this game? In the first half the ref was really doing a great job. And in fact most of the mistakes were down to the first assistant who called a foul that wasn’t a foul, stopped a Wigan attack for an offside that wasn’t, didn’t help the ref when a foul from Chelsea close to him happened.  I must admit in the knowledge of the events later in the game I decided to take a closer look at the assistant and he was clearly or blinded by something or biased. As a result a lot of the points lost by the ref came as a result of this assistant his mistakes.

In the first half Wigan claimed a penalty for a handball from Cahill but the ref gave correctly a corner because the ball first hit his chest and then the arm and from a close distance. In the second half Chelsea should have got a penalty when Caldwell handled a cross with an outstretched arm.  big decision going against Chelsea.

But when it comes to big decisions going against a team let us talk a bit about Wigan. What a great miss for the first goal. Ivanovic was clearly offside when the ball came in his direction. Further more Drogba seemed to touch the ball with his head and if he touched it Ivanovic would have been again offside. Like I said or he was blinded or he did it on purpose. Terrible miss and costly for the ref his final numbers.

The second Chelsea goal was also a total failure from the same assistant. When Torres managed to take his only good shot on goal Mata was past the last defender and in an offside position. When the ball rebounded from the post it came to Mata who then took advantage from his offside position.  The interfering of two other Chelsea players standing in an offside position who attacked the Wigan keeper added only to the feelings of injustice.   Now I know that such a thing (rebounding ball) is harder to see than the first offside goal but this is where a video replay would be helpful to make sure such mistakes do not happen.

Now Wigan is facing the consequences of those 2 mistakes and goes home empty handed.  They should have had at least one point.

COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Michael Jones (2012-04-07)
Period 1	Called	Total	Correct %
OFFSIDE	3	4	75.00
OTHER	14	18	77.78
PENALTY	2	2	100.00
YELLOW	2	3	66.67
TOTAL	21	27	77.78
WEIGHTED	27	34	79.41
Period 2	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	1	3	33.33
OFFSIDE	3	6	50.00
OTHER	8	14	57.14
PENALTY	0	1	0.00
YELLOW	2	4	50.00
TOTAL	14	28	50.00
WEIGHTED	18	40	45.00
Totals	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	1	3	33.33
OFFSIDE	6	10	60.00
OTHER	22	32	68.75
PENALTY	2	3	66.67
YELLOW	4	7	57.14
TOTAL	35	55	63.64
WEIGHTED	45	74	60.81

A low score for the ref with the compliments of his first assistant.

BIAS SUMMARY – Michael Jones (2012-04-07)
Period 1	Chelsea	%	Wigan Athletic	%	Total
Correct For	8	40.00	12	60.00	20
Correct For Weighted	10	40.00	15	60.00	25
Incorrect Against	3	42.86	4	57.14	7
Incorrect Against Weighted	4	44.44	5	55.56	9
Fouls Commited	11	55.00	9	45.00	20
Fouls Penalised	10	90.91	7	77.78	17
Period 2	Chelsea	%	Wigan Athletic	%	Total
Correct For	6	42.86	8	57.14	14
Correct For Weighted	7	38.89	11	61.11	18
Incorrect Against	2	14.29	12	85.71	14
Incorrect Against Weighted	4	18.18	18	81.82	22
Fouls Commited	10	62.50	6	37.50	16
Fouls Penalised	6	60.00	5	83.33	11
Totals	Chelsea	%	Wigan Athletic	%	Total
Correct For	14	41.18	20	58.82	34
Correct For Weighted	17	39.53	26	60.47	43
Incorrect Against	5	23.81	16	76.19	21
Incorrect Against Weighted	8	25.81	23	74.19	31
Fouls Commited	21	58.33	15	41.67	36
Fouls Penalised	16	76.19	12	80.00	28

 

The bias table shows a big handicap for Wigan but I think almost the half of those decisions are down to that one assistant who was having a shockingly bad afternoon.

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