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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. ———————————————- 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: Norwich – more errors than acceptable”
By Walter Broeckx A few minutes ago the ref blew the end of the game Fenerbache – Arsenal. Final score was a big 0-3 win for Arsenal. Goals scored by Gibbs, Ramsey and Giroud. And let’s be honest we should have won this game with 0-5 with a little better finishing. Now you might think …
Read More “For all those who cannot see: what a difference a day makes”
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: QPR. With refs like this we ought to start to wonder”
By Walter Broeckx Two gooners meet in the pub last Sunday. One is a WOB.(Wenger Out Brigade). The other is a reader of Untold and called an AKB. I therefore put the W in front of the WOB and the A in front of the parts being said by the AKB. WOB: It clearly is …
Read More “A perfect example of a game played under two different sets of rules”
By Walter Broeckx Apart from the fact that ref Anthony Taylor was having his usual anti-Arsenal bias performance and that played a big part in the final outcome of this game we can also look at other things where it went wrong. After scoring early we looked very much in control in the opening stages. …
Read More “Apart from the ref what else went wrong? Balance I tell you, balance”
By Walter Broeckx Sitting in front of my TV I couldn’t really remember seeing such a ref travesty for a long while. But then I remembered the PL has stopped some 3 month ago so it had been a while. Whatever 11 players we would have put on the pitch today wouldn’t have mattered. From …
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: Reading – 17 wrong decisions per game!!!”
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: Southampton. It’s a miracle they survived.”
By Walter Broeckx What is this with “having a plan”? The first “plan” is on the football field. It refers to what you do on the field when things are not working out – you have a plan B. Now I’m not going into that too much for now but I think that for 99% …
Read More “Of course Arsenal have a plan. It probably just isn’t the same as your plan.”
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 …
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: Sunderland. A team with a positive bias.”
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: how did the refs do when Swansea City played?”
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 “Were refs biased in Tottenham’s favour last season? The Ref Review continues”
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 “West Bromwich Albion and the referees. Do the errors even out in the end?”
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 “Life with a positive bias. Ref Review 2012/13: West Ham United”
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 our last article we showed that there is the home bias as we showed in the season before in our reviews and this still was …
By Walter Broeckx In the past I have written a few articles about the rules and how they should be applied. That was in the days I didn’t go out for the complete Referee reviews. And in those days I had a bit more time. But now when we are in the off-season I have …
Read More “A short explanation of the rules: serious foul play”
By Walter Broeckx If we look back at the where we stand this pre season compared to last pre season it is a bit amazing how our team has changed if we look at the squad from the Asia tour. Last season we didn’t have on our tour and I might even miss …
Read More “For starters it’s about how much the ones we have want it”
Ref review 2012-2013: Home/away bias – part 2 . 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 looking at the home/away bias in the more important decisions we now will try to …
By Walter Broeckx With the visit of much of the (according to some non-existent) AAA on our site a few things could be noticed. Of course this analysis will not be valid for all members of the AAA – they are indeed not a homogeneous group – but if you read carefully what some say …
By Walter Broeckx If you read the title and you think at least try to write the headline in correct English just stay with me for a moment before you go on about that. The first ‘R’ I refer to is the one where it should say they aRe back. And they of course are …
By Walter Broeckx And so we are entering the final day of our Asia tour already. Today another game and more about that in a few moments of course. But first let me see at what the tour has brought us so far. Looking at the pictures, the first two visits were more of the …
Read More “Urawa Red Diamonds – Arsenal the final game of the Asia tour”
By Walter Broeckx I am not just busy on Untold Arsenal but also in other fields of the big Gooner world as you might know. The Arsenal Benelux supporters and of course the social media such as facebook and twitter is where I spend some time. Not that I am on these media day …
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. ———————————————— Last year in our season review we pointed at the fact that we found a Home and Away bias. And this was based on calculating …
By Walter Broeckx And now for something completely different…. In the town I usually call my home town we have a big fair each year. The Pentecost fair it is called. Well we don’t call it like that because we use the Dutch name for it which is ‘Pinksteren’. And even then in the local …
