Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ——————————————– By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage …
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————————————————————– Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ————————— Looking for a low cost spare bedroom, home office, music room, summer house… without planning permission? We’ve got it! —————————— By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have …
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. ———————- Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ————————- There is a clear regional bias among the refs. The previous article in this series can be found here. The index of this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx …
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The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
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The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
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The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
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The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
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The previous articles in this series can be read here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
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The previous article in this series can be read here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
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By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as slow motion and pause. By reviewing those 155 games we …
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By Walter Broeckx The previous article in this series can be read here. We will try to give you information on various things but all connected with the ref and how they did their games. How many wrong decisions we have found. And also what those decisions were about. Was it the little foul in …
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By Walter Broeckx The previous article in this series can be read here And then enters another person the playing field. One could say he is our 4th ref. A person who is known under the name of Dogface. He is the computer genius in this whole story. Almost all the graphics and numbers from …
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By Walter Broeckx The previous articles in this series can be read here So after a few referee reviews of Arsenal games we had to change the reviews. And we brought in a weighting system. Because a not given push in midfield in most cases doesn’t have a big impact as a striker pushing the …
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By Walter Broeckx First article in this series can be read here Every football supporter will have a moment that after a game he is angry about the referee. And if you are a football supporter that never said a word about a ref I can only wonder if you are a true supporter of …
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By Walter Broeckx Did you ever felt the ref didn’t do his job properly? Can you remember yourself swearing and shouting at the ref? Did you ever think the ref must have been blind to not see that obvious foul? Have you ever felt like throwing objects towards the ref at the end of the …
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By Walter Broeckx Did the big decisions go against Newcastle last season? As you all should now by now it is important to get the big decisions going in your favour. But it also is important to get the small fouls on the field in your favour. Because that is the way you can have …
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By Walter Broeckx Does it help to have the QPR owner sponsoring the PGMOL? At the start of the season some voices spoke in concern about the fact that the sponsor of Queens Park Rangers also sponsored the refs organisation PGMOL. Let us say that this isn’t the ideal situation to have. Could the sponsor …
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By Walter Broeckx Was there anything suspicious to see when the refs came to Swansea? Swansea was a new team in the PL at the start of last season. And they played football in a rather nice way. Not kicking the ball just up field and starting the charge of the light brigade. No they …
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By Walter Broeckx We are now just about ready to start publishing the ref reviews for the 2011/12 season – a season in which we reviewed 40% of all the games in the premier league. So just a brief moment before we start to ponder a few key questions, such as… Was West Bromwich Albion …
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By Walter Broeckx Dear Untold readers, (and also Dear new readers who visit us over here for the first time), Welcome to a new series of articles that we are about to present you. In the next days and weeks you will be able to see what is more or less top secret. Untold will …
Read More “To find out how well refs did in 2011/12 we analysed their every move. Now we move to the findings.”
AND THIS LADIES AND GENTLEMAN IS IT. This is the last Untold Ref Review of the season. Now the only thing you have to do is to sit and wait for the summary of all those reviews. And I can already say that Untold Arsenal is writing history with these ref reviews. I really hope …
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By Walter Broeckx In June 2010 I wrote an article about the not given goal from England against Germany on the World cup. England lost the game and went out of the tournament. If England could have beaten Germany remains to be seen as Germany looked the stronger team on the day. But being the …
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This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
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This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
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By Walter Broeckx I wrote yesterday about my meeting with an up and coming Fifa ref. Now the story continues… Before and during my game with the Fifa ref I had the chance to keep my ears and eyes wide open and listen to the things he told me. He gave me a nice insight …
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