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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) …
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By Tony Attwood English football is all a-flutter. Our very own Smoking Jack has declared that only real Englishmen should play for England. Mr Wenger has said that the rules indeed need sorting as otherwise the international matches become just another club type tournament. And just for a laugh, Greg Dyke, the Football Association chair, …
Read More “England leads the world in sporting self-delusion.”
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 ref in our series we have ref Phil Dowd. 50 year old ref Dowd is one of the older refs in the PL. …
Read More “Referee Reviews: Phil Dowd. After a good year, a year in decline”
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 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 ref in our series we have ref Neil Swarbrick. Neil Swarbrick is 47 years old and is one of the refs that started …
Read More “The Referee Reviews: Neil Swarbrick. Every goal was right, but oh, the bias!”
The Long View By Pete Further to my previous articles on how match assessments are unfairly influenced by the result of the game (links to the earlier articles below), the other related major issue I see is that of completely over the top responses to a single result. One defeat after a series of wins …
Read More “The Long View: how many trophies in the next eight years?”
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 …
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 ref in our series we have ref Mike Dean.. Mike Dean is 45 years old and is in fact now one of …
Read More “Ref Reviews 2013: Mike Dean. An unacceptable bias.”
Match Analysis This is part two of a series in which we investigate the way we see football. Part one: “Its the defence stupid”, is here By Pete One thing that has always puzzled me is that pundits, bloggers and fans’ assessment of games is hugely coloured by the result. My previous article looked at …
By Walter Broeckx For those who don’t like me to say : ‘we told you so’, please stop now because in this article we will say: we told you so. So after this warning you can read further but don’t complain about it. When the game started we knew that a draw would keep us …
West Bromwich Albion v The Arsenal. Today’s guest writer: Reginald Spode, amateur dictator, 7th Earl of Sidcup, Saviour of England, honorary vice president of Ukip (flower arranging division) and editor of the Daily Mail. Being an amateur dictator is, I can tell you, a tough job, although one that fits naturally and easily with being …
Read More “Sunday Match Preview by the Right Hon Reginald Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup”
West Bromwich Albion v The Arsenal – Referee preview The Match officials are Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – S Ledger and M Perry Fourth Official – J Moss Mr Mason is another Lancashire referee and has been in the Premier League since 2006, he is chairman of the Bolton Referees Society and was born …
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It’s the Defence, Stupid… By Pete This is the first of 3 slightly related articles examining (i) a reason for our recent improvement (ii) how the analysis of football matches in the media is fundamentally flawed and (iii) the importance of retaining focus on longer term goals. To start, I have been thinking about the …
Read More “What’s so different at Arsenal that has led to this improvement? Actually, its…”
By Arvind This is part of our new series looking back at Arsenal match by match, to see how the tactics are developing. This time we will take a look at how Arsenal played in the Stoke City home game which we won 3-1. Arsenal offence: Wilshere driving at the heart of the Stoke defence …
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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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Michael Oliver. Ref Oliver is still only 28 years old so we might be seeing him …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Michael Oliver. This doesn’t look too clever.”
By Walter Broeckx Ever since the day I started the referee reviewing system on Untold a few seasons ago the one thing that came out of most numbers was that we could see a bias in favour of Manchester United. For years we have been suggesting this was the case, and got it confirmed by …
Read More “How Manchester United influenced referees, year after year after year”
GILDING THE LILY….by Don McMahon It has been a tumultous and inspiring few weeks since the opening day loss to the PGMOL Villa which had everyone predicting gloom and doom for the Arsenal. Now we are the adored super Club everyone is talking about and even the media have mollified their anti-Arsenal campaign just a …
By Tony Attwood In the equations that describe the world of quantum physics there are infinities. So many of the buggers in fact that the only conclusion that can be reached is that all possible worlds exist. Thus in the great yonder there are numerous worlds in which at the end of last season, with …
Read More “Imagine if the Anti-Wengerians had won in the summer. What then?”
