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By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Which two refs helped Reading the most?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2013/13 part 8 SOUTHAMPTON. An extraordinary mixture”
By Walter Broeckx Now that was a fine example of shooting oneself in the foot. What looked to be a rather very dull affair was suddenly a mountain to climb after some 26 minutes. It was as if both teams didn’t really wanted to go out for it. Both teams contented with holding each other …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Stoke. Three totally unbiased refs!”
By Walter Broeckx When I look back at the game at Crystal Palace we should try to look at some things that are not highlighted by the pundits at all. As some of them were far too busy trying to discredit our performance and our win. What they didn’t highlight was that the match after …
Read More “Gnabry, Monreal, Jack, Özil. Hail the heroes from the game at Palace”
By Walter Broeckx Selhurst Park. I must say a name that still brings back some good memories to me. In the year 1979 I was there once for a FA cup game. It was a few days after I had witnessed my first game at Highbury. A game Arsenal lost 0-1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. The …
Read More “Crystal Palace – Arsenal: A good looking ugly win”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was the big friend of Sunderland 6”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Any good refs out there for Swansea ?”
By Walter Broeckx When I see the league table, and I do admit I look at it every day, I cannot help it but a big smile comes on my face. It’s always nice to be top of the league. No denying that. Strolling on the internet you get to see all kinds of opinions …
Read More “Are we doing better than last year? A negative or a positive way at looking at it”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was Tottenham’s bogey ref?”
By Walter Broeckx The only thing that was really disappointing for me is the final score. Of course there have been a few other things that one can not really be happy about. But that is the way it goes. In a very even match between the two teams and on a moment when we …
By Walter Broeckx So finally the long wait was over last weekend and we had the only real important football team around on the pitch again: The Arsenal. We had a few nervous moments in the last game as Norwich defended rather well at first without really going overboard on the usual kicking part we …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and having given the award for the best ref of last season …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was a good ref for WBA. (Hint: it wasn’t Probert)”
By Walter Broeckx The games are coming fast for the moment. But that is the toll we have to pay to be in the Champions League. The lot down the road can always rest till Thursday to play their games but those of us in the Champions League we have to be ready sooner. But …
Read More “Picking the Arsenal team for Tuesday is simple…or is it?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : Which ref works well for West Ham?”
By Walter Broeckx (updated slightly 8.30 BST, Sunday) After we found out that co-leader Liverpool dropped points at Newcastle the pressure was even more on Arsenal to win this game. A win would take us 2 points clear of the team in second whatever the results of the other teams. For the first time we …
Read More “The fastest but incomplete match report : Arsenal – Norwich 4-1”
By Walter Broeckx In another article Andrew has reported a few things about the ref who has been appointed by Mike Riley, head of the PGMOL for the Norwich Arsenal match. But there is more about this ref. The first time we had him on our radar was early in the season 2009-2010. Our away …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : Wigan and the bias of the referees”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs we now are bringing it all together. In the last …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : The best ref in the PL was….”
By Walter Broeckx Are you also so bored these days? Well then you are not alone. I thought about going to see a local game of football myself and write a report and take some pictures like Tony and Drew do each time there is no Arsenal game to go to. But it started raining …
Read More “The in(ter)-jury(nationals) games from Fifa: boring as usual”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ For the next and last ref in our series we have ref Roger East. Roger East, born in 1965 and so he is around 48 years …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Roger East. A short term solution”
By Walter Broeckx Slowly, very slowly the truth is coming out about the PGMOL. Very, very slowly. And much too slow for my liking. But still, there is progress. For a few years now we have been pointing at the things that are wrong in the referee world. I have written (apart from the reviews) …
Read More “Untold lightyears ahead of the real world as cracks appear in PGMOL”
Untold Arsenal is a blog about football and Arsenal. But there are moments that we have to put this aside and take a instant to reflect on things that are far more important than football. Those friends of the site who have been Untold readers for many years will know the name “Dogface”. People who …
By Walter Broeckx I didn’t intend to talk about this any further. But as the comments are divided I thought it was time to try to bring some clarity to this incident. There are roughly speaking two versions. One is saying (in simple terms): Mulumbu played the ball first and then made contact with Wilshere …
Read More “The Mulumbu – Wilshere incident: penalty or not? How the English media stands alone”
By Walter Broeckx On a regular basis people play word games. As in our referee reports we often use the word bias they want us to say that we should use the word errors. Or mistakes. And I can imagine the reasoning behind this. Bias is something that clearly indicates that something is wrong. While …
