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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. __________________________ Next ref in our series that is being presented in alphabetical order we have ref Howard Webb. Howard Webb did 30 games in the PL last …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Howard Webb. An amazing score when it comes to goals”
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. __________________________ Next ref in our series that are done in alphabetical order we have ref Chris Foy. A few seasons ago he was confused with Chris Hoy …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Chris Foy – very poor on cards and fouls, great on goals.”
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. __________________________ Next ref in our series that are done in alphabetical order we have ref Anthony Taylor. Ref Taylor has done 24 games in the PL in …
Read More “Ref Reveiw 2012/13: Anthony Taylor – Disastrous when it comes to penalties”
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. __________________________ Up to now we have focussed on the decisions themselves and on the teams. With some shocking outcomes. Now we go further in our search of …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/3. Andre Marriner; a good ref but 10% of his goal decisions are wrong!”
By Walter Broeckx People who have followed our blog a bit over the last years will have read on more than one occasion that I pointed in the direction of the decisions makers in the PGMOL when it comes to the things that went wrong in the PL when we look at the referees. 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. ———————————————— We have been doing articles about the teams in a separate way up to now. But with all the teams done, we will give you …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/3: The team bias league table – The horrible truth”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/3: Refs give opposition freedom to kick Arsenal off the park”
By Walter Broeckx With Arsenal bringing in a real world class player to the Emirates in a record transfer we might look at a few things that might have helped this transfer taking place. It seems that PSG also was after Özil and even offered higher wages than us. But Özil chose us over the …
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Referee Review 2012/3: Aston Villa. A very significant bias”
By Walter Broeckx As promised I will now try to shed some light over our other incoming transfer of transfer deadline day: Emilio Viviano. He is an Italian goalkeeper who last played for Fiorentina. Fiorentina ended up in 4th place last season in the Serie A. They were beaten on the last day …
Read More “Benvenuti Viviano, a new Italian goalkeeper at Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx With Tony being out for the moment I had two options: step in the transfer madness like the rest of the world or…stay cool and relaxed and wait what would happen. I chose for the latter option because well we are Untold and like to think we are different than the others. …
Read More “Arsenal make a sign of intent: Welcome Mesut Özil”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Referee Review 2012/13: Chelsea. A bias against, but not always”
By Walter Broeckx Before this game we had a lot of ‘chicken’ Arsenal supporters. In the last weeks our positive site has been attacked by people who predicted doom and trouble for Arsenal. Before every game they came to tell us how much we were doomed. And when we lost the opening game (thanks to …
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Referee Review 2012/13: Everton. A slight bias in favour… but only in the middle.”
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. ———————————————- n this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Referee Review 2012/13: Fulham. It all evens out in the end.”
By Walter Broeckx Let me start with saying that I know there is an error against English grammar in the title. Even though I’m not a native English speaker I still do know that ‘brather’ is not a real English word. But I will come back to that at the end of the article. So …
Read More “Oh look brather Mathieu is back: the fighter against ridiculous transfer fees”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Liverpool – you should blame the refs!”
By Walter Broeckx So today will be the draw of the Group stages of the Champions league. Much to the annoyance of the English media and the Wenger haters, Arsenal will be in pot 1. Together with Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Porto and Benfica. Manchester City of course are not there, …
Read More “The Champions League: who could we meet and my favourite draw”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Referee Review 2012/13: Manchester City. Unlike their neighbours, a very small bias.”
By Walter Broeckx So Arsenal have done the job in a very professional way. Winning both legs and keeping the qualifying record at 100% wins. That alone is a rather impressive fact I would say. As a result Uefa will be a bit relieved that they don’t have to put everything upside down if the …
Read More “Sorry AAA, but we can say “Bring on the draw for the CL””
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Manchester Utd gain highest positive bias in the League”
By Walter Broeckx After almost two complete match days in the PL (one game missing and that is Manchester United – Chelsea) and with the last week of the transfer market finally upon us I want to make a quick update on the state of affairs in the PL. Let us start with Arsenal of …
Read More “What influence results more: spending the money early or refereeing?”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Referee Review 2012/13: Newcastle Utd. 11 wrong decisions per game.”
By Walter Broeckx On a very very busy day for me between our annual course as a ref and a training session added to it, then rushing home to see the Arsenal game at Fulham before having just one hour before I go to my match… And it is a rather special match. For the …
By Walter Broeckx After the first match review that was more based on the in my opinion fairly unbiased performance of the ref I will now give my thoughts on the game and the players. If some fans were visibly struck by our defeat last Saturday the team surely didn’t look affected that …
Read More “A fine display of team work and work ethics, more of this please”
