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Editorial note: No organisation has ever analysed and reviewed the performance of Premier League referees before in this much detail. As I am sure you can understand, the amount of time it takes our team to complete this work is enormous, but all of us feel this is worth it, for the simple reason that …
Read More “The most comprehensive review of referee performance: Match Day #04 with video evidence”
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start on the officials for this coming game I want to raise a point about PENALTIES – as you will have noticed so far this season they are being given which is a major change from the past few seasons. Last season we were awarded 2 out of 35. This …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea Sat 24 September 2016 – The Match Officials”
by the Referee review team In the next round we have drawn Reading. More details on that in a moment, but first following on from the article after our game with PSG in the Champions League, here is a quick review of some of the incidents that occurred in the game against Nottingham Forest (each …
by Andrew Crawshaw The referee review from the Southampton game is waiting for Walter’s input on his return from holiday as there were a number of controversial decisions which require his input. For our game against Hull the match officials are :- Referee – Roger East : a 51 year old from Wiltshire who has …
Read More “Hull v Arsenal, Saturday 17 September 2016. The Match Officials”
by Usama and Andrew Crawshaw The ref reviews for Arsenal’s EPL games and the weekly ref reports of the EPL are the result of work by a very dedicated team. They are time consuming and the intention is that they will be an unprecedented season-long research programme. Given this project has become our priority programme, …
by Andrew Crawshaw For our last game at Watford we had Kevin Friend as our Referee assisted by I Hussin and M McDonough. Broadly Mr Friend performed as predicted, 78% overall weighted preformance, bias against the two teams of 25/75 and 2 wrong Important Decisions a not given second yellow card for Amrabat in Min …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton Sat 10 September 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood Following our detailed review of Arsenal’s youth teams and youth policy (a link to these articles is at the foot of this piece) we then took a look, by way of contrast, at Chelsea’s approach to youth in the article Chelsea lead the Premier League in the number of players that …
Read More “The strange case of Chelsea’s missing players, and their unusual approach to youngsters”
by Andrew Crawshaw Chelsea lead the Premier League in the number of players that they have out on loan to other clubs. According to Sky Sports, following the closing of the transfer window the 20 clubs in the PL have a total of 169 players out on loan across the world. Chelsea are far and …
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Prelude: Just before we get into the regular report on referee performances on the pitch, if you have been following the Mark Halsey incidents reported in our last article you might like to note the latest from the Daily Telegraph. Mark Halsey reveals incident he claims he was told to lie about by referee bosses as …
by Andrew Crawshaw This is the third part of our series on the Arsenal youth system. Earlier articles in the series were… Top of the league and bottom of the league. Is Arsenal’s youth system working properly? The Arsenal Youth System – Part 2 Comparisons with other clubs At the U23 game against Liverpool I …
Read More “The Arsenal Youth System – Part 3 Questions and (some) Answers”
by Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 – an Introduction I showed that 10 players out of our 32 man first team squad are products of at least one of the three phases of our Youth Team System. This has occurred despite our U21 team (as it was up to and including last season) had been …
Read More “The Arsenal Youth System – Part 2 Comparisons with other clubs”
. The Arsenal Youth System – Part 1 Introduction by Andrew Crawshaw As you may know I get to see as many of the Youth games as possible. Our U18 team play the vast majority of their home games at the Colney training ground but these are effectively behind closed doors. We have an U19 team …
Read More “Top of the league and bottom of the league. Is Arsenal’s youth system working properly?”
by Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood With all of the ‘ins and outs’ of the transfer window here is the final 25 man senior players squad list. The top 9 are ‘home grown’ the remaining (from Debuchy downwards) are overseas. (The numbers in the left column are simply for Tony to double check that we …
Read More “Arsenal’s 25 man squad – The Final List (at least until January)”
by Andrew Crawshaw This game was against opponents Arsenal know well, we beat them in the Continental Cup final last November, and three times at Borehamwood this season, once in the league and in both the FA Cup and the Continental Cup. The question was could we make it 4 out of 4 this season …
Read More “WSL Notts County v Arsenal Ladies 28 August 2016 – Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsene made a rather cryptic quote regarding squad numbers in his press conference before the Watford match :- “We already have a big squad, and we are already short on the numbers now. We have a requested number, and we can’t have any more players anyway” Given the Imminent/Actual arrival of Shkodran …
Read More “Arsenal 25 Man Senior Squad – Update. A hint of more to come but with one in, two out.”
by Andrew Crawshaw A quick review of Mr Clattenberg’s performance last week First half he was terrible overall although he had a good start when in Min1 he adjudged the holding between Holding and Huth to be six of one and half a dozen of the other and rightly said no penalty. He was 5 …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal Sat 27 August – The Match Officials”
by Andrew Crawshaw This game is today (Friday) at the Emirates and kick-off is 19:00. The game is also being shown live on Arsenal Player so no excuses not to see it. The current PL2 Division 1 table is Pos Team P W D L +/- Pts 1 Everton 3 3 0 0 7 9 …
Read More “Premier League 2 – Arsenal v Liverpool – the preview”
From the Referee team 1: Details of the match referees and assistants Manchester United vs. Southampton [2-0] Referee – Anthony Taylor 1st Assistant Referee – Richard West 2nd Assistant Referee – Adrian Holmes Fourth Official – Andre Marriner Stoke City vs. Manchester City [1-4] Referee – Mike Dean 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Long 2nd …
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I look ahead to the game on Saturday, a brief recap from last week. Michael Oliver had a good overall score and certainly far better than I was expecting with an 82% overall weighted score and bias of 60/40 against the two teams. He did make two wrong Important Decisions, Liverpool’s …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal Sat 20 August – The Match Officials and what we know of them.”
by the Untold referee review team Welcome to our new review of all the referee performances in the Premier League this last weekend. Below you will find the most comprehensive analysis ever of how the PGMO referees are doing their jobs, with, in section 5, video clips to back up our analysis. Details of match …
by Andrew Crawshaw A gloriously sunny evening at Meadow Park greeted the teams as they stepped out for the opening fixture of the Premier League 2 at Meadow Park Borehamwood on Friday evening. The Arsenal Team:- Matt Macey (GK), Chiori Johnson (RB), Kostas Pileas (LB), Kris Da Graca and Ben Sheaf (CB), Ismaul Bennacer, Ainsley …
Read More “Premier League 2 – Arsenal v Reading – The Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw So the Season starts with a Sunday afternoon kickoff against Liverpool. Our Match Officials are :- Referee – Michael Oliver – FIFA Accredited – age 31 – Home County Northumberland Assistants – S Burt – FIFA accredited, Home County Northamptonshire and E Smart – Home County West Midlands Fourth Official – C …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool Sunday 14 August – The Match Officials. Prepare for bias.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal and Reading start the newly named Premier league 2 with a game at Meadow Park Borehamwood at 19:00 tonight. The first bit of good news is that entry to the ground is absolutely free and there is no need to download tickets or anything – just turn up. The second bit …
Read More “Premier League 2 – Arsenal v Reading Friday 12 August 19:00 Meadow Park – Preview”
by Andrew Crawshaw I have started my preparations for the referee previews for this coming season and have noticed some changes within our favorite referees organisation, so I thought I would bring them to your attention. I am writing this on Monday Afternoon and as yet the referee page of the Premier League website (premierleague.com) …
by Andrew Crawshaw Since I posted my first thoughts on who might be in our 25 man squad for the coming season there have been a number of changes in terms of players arriving or leaving and I have a few errors to correct. It is also under a week to go till our first …
Read More “Arsenal 25 Man Squad – The updated list now the pre-season is done.”
