Untold Ref Review: Everton 4 – 0 Sunderland. A game of biased calls.

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Today’s referee is Kevin Friend –

MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Kevin Friend (2012-04-09)
Period 1
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
2	OTHER	Stracqualursi		C	assumed correct handball	1
4	OTHER	Stracqualursi	Vaughan	C	Trip	1
5	OTHER	Heitinga	Gardner	NC	Not given trip	1
8	OTHER	Cattermole	McFadden	C	push	1
11	OTHER	Heitinga	?	NC	ref gave advantage but Sunderland lost the ball within seconds, this is not advantage ref	1
11	YELLOW	Heitinga		NC	Clearly going for the man should have been booked	2
12	OFFSIDE	Everton		C	assumed correct	1
14	OTHER	Stracqualursi	Turner	C	push	1
15	OTHER	Hibbert	Cattermole	NC	Frontal tackle, not given, studs showing	1
15	YELLOW	Hibbert		NC	The Sunderland player had to jump to avoid the contact, was dangerous	2
18	OTHER	Cattermole	Pienaar	C	Late trip	1
18	YELLOW	Cattermole		C	Went for the man, came late, promising attack, correct card in itself but consistency ref?	2
20	OTHER	McClean	Fellaini	C	Trip	1
21	OFFSIDE	Everton		C	correct	1
28	OFFSIDE	Sunderland		C	correct	1
29	OFFSIDE	Sunderland		C	assumed correct	1
31	OTHER	McFadden	McClean	C	Trip	1
32	OTHER	Sessegnon	Fellaini	C	assumed correct	1
44	OTHER	McFadden	Kilgallon	C	Trip	1
Period 2
Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	Weight
51	OTHER	Pienaar	Colback	C	Knocked him agains the knee	1
52	GOAL	Everton		C	correct goal	3
53	OTHER	Sessegnon	Heitinga	C	contact with the Achilles	1
64	OTHER	Gardner	Pienaar	C	came in with his arm	1
69	OTHER	Kilgallon	Stracqualursi	C	holding	1
70	OTHER	Sessegnon	Jagielka	C	Trip	1
71	OTHER	Turner	Pienaar	C	Trip	1
74	OTHER	Gardner	Pienaar	C	Push	1
75	GOAL	Everton		C	correct goal	3
76	GOAL	Everton		C	correct goal	3
79	OFFSIDE	Sunderland		C	correct decision	1
81	GOAL	Everton		C	correct goal	3
83	OTHER	Richardson	Anichebe	C	Trip	1
83	YELLOW	Richardson		C	promising attack	2
85	OFFSIDE	Everton		C	assumed correct	1
88	OTHER	Colback	Drenthe	C	trip	1
88	OTHER			C	ref allows a quick restart	1

 

In some games you sometimes see a strange relation between a ref and a player. In this game Heitinga could do no wrong for the ref. And got away with a yellow card for his fouls early on. For the umpteenth time I would like to say that keeping possession is not the same as giving advantage. And certainly when there is nothing on or the team loses the ball within a second. Then you can and should go back to the foul. And give the yellow card that was needed. But for some strange reasons ref just give advantage when there is nothing on.

Another bad moment in the first half was a frontal tackle from Hibbert against Cattermole. The foul was not even given, let alone the yellow card. Yes Hibbert played the ball but if Cattermole would not have jumped up to save his legs, some accident could have happened. Poor moment for the ref. As a result a not that good first half score for the ref.

I don’t know what was said at half time but his second half was amazing. No wrong calls at all. So a big thumbs up for the ref in the second half. It can be done. Maybe the fact that this was a low profile game helped the ref? Maybe nobody to give any favours or try to stop a certain team in this game?

COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Kevin Friend (2012-04-09)
Period 1	Called	Total	Correct %
OFFSIDE	4	4	100.00
OTHER	9	12	75.00
YELLOW	1	3	33.33
TOTAL	14	19	73.68
WEIGHTED	15	21	71.43
Period 2	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	4	4	100.00
OFFSIDE	2	2	100.00
OTHER	10	10	100.00
YELLOW	1	1	100.00
TOTAL	17	17	100.00
WEIGHTED	26	26	100.00
Totals	Called	Total	Correct %
GOAL	4	4	100.00
OFFSIDE	6	6	100.00
OTHER	19	22	86.36
YELLOW	2	4	50.00
TOTAL	31	36	86.11
WEIGHTED	41	47	87.23

So a high overall score for the ref but in the important decisions he paid for not handing out the needed yellow cards in the first half. I can imagine that one hour after the game nobody knew the name of the ref. And this is one of the biggest compliments one can give to a ref.

BIAS SUMMARY – Kevin Friend (2012-04-09)
Period 1	Everton	%	Sunderland	%	Total
Correct For	7	50.00	7	50.00	14
Correct For Weighted	8	53.33	7	46.67	15
Incorrect Against	0	0.00	5	100.00	5
Incorrect Against Weighted	0	0.00	7	100.00	7
Fouls Commited	10	62.50	6	37.50	16
Fouls Penalised	7	70.00	6	100.00	13
Period 2	Everton	%	Sunderland	%	Total
Correct For	15	88.24	2	11.76	17
Correct For Weighted	24	92.31	2	7.69	26
Incorrect Against	0	0.00	0	0.00	0
Incorrect Against Weighted	0	0.00	0	0.00	0
Fouls Commited	2	18.18	9	81.82	11
Fouls Penalised	2	100.00	9	100.00	11
Totals	Everton	%	Sunderland	%	Total
Correct For	22	70.97	9	29.03	31
Correct For Weighted	32	78.05	9	21.95	41
Incorrect Against	0	0.00	5	100.00	5
Incorrect Against Weighted	0	0.00	7	100.00	7
Fouls Commited	12	44.44	15	55.56	27
Fouls Penalised	9	75.00	15	100.00	24

In the bias index it was amazing that all the wrong calls favoured Everton in this game. But they didn’t help Everton in the first half at all it seemed. And in the second half when he made no mistakes Everton started scoring.

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