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By Ref Reviewer 04 Next in our ref reviews was the game at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and WBA. Ref in charge was Mason. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on 3 OTHER WBA? Torres NC Trip not given 0 0 1 3 OTHER Torres Scharner NC Should have given the first …
By Ref Reviewer 02 Our home game against Liverpool has seen Atkinson coming to the Emirates. How did he do? Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on 1 Foul Walcott Enrique C 1 1 1 1 Foul Frimpong Agger C 1 1 1 7 Yellow Frimpong C Frimpong delays the restart 1 …
By Walter Broeckx Well we have had our first week of ref reviews. And apart from some mistakes that were made while publishing a review your original ref reviewer is feeling a bit satisfied. Not all that came online this week was 100%. But this is the building process. And as Rome wasn’t build in …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistant 1: Peter Kirkup Assistant 2: Michael Mullarkey 4th Official: Michael Oliver Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… It seems that we may have caused a wee bit of a stink with our unfashionable interest in the selection of match officials last season; so …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx, one of The Untold refs Well we had our first game and you have seen the model we are currently using. Perfection is difficult to reach, and when I was reviewing the review I found some part of the puzzle might be a bit too much to …
By Ref reviewer 03 Next in our reviewed games is the first game of Swansea in the PL. A visit to Manchester City and Mike Dean was the ref. Let’s have a look at how one of our favourite refs did this game. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on 2 OTHER …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Ref Reviewer 04 Another day, another ref review. This time we took on the first game of the defending champions Manchester United who went away from home to play West Bromwich Albion. The ref over there was Mike Jones. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on …
By Ref Reviewer 04 The first game in Europe and we got ref Kevin Blom at the Emirates. How was he? Only one way to find out and that is to read further. Oh and my personal highlight of the game was in minute 11. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on …
By Ref Reviewer 02 updated! (Due to my mistake we have been putting on a not finished review at first) For those who wanted more ref reviews and also of the other teams involved in the league we can let you have another one. We took the game Liverpool – Sunderland on and this is …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————————————————— The season begins: here’s the widest coverage of Arsenal imaginable: see the end of the article for details of how Untold is evolving… —————————————————————————— By Ref Reviewer 03 So here we have another ref review on Untold. And no Arsenal game this time. In …
By Ref reviewer 04 Dear fans and also those who are not such fans here it is the First ref review of the season 2011-2012. As you will see the review itself is now done by more than one ref. The words before and after are written by the old and original ref reviewer most …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Peter Walton (we think) Assistant 1: Dunno? Assistant 2: Umm… Nope!? 4th Official: We’ll have to wait and see! Good morning stat-fans and welcome to a new season of your favourite RefWatch – I knows you loves it I do! Well where do we start… or stat …
Read More “RefWatch – Newcastle United v Arsenal (13/08/2011 17:30)”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref wakes up With the new season only a few days away from us, now is the time to act. And for possible new readers I will give you a short resume of what lead us to where we are now. As a qualified ref …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx So one of my wishes could be fulfilled at the start of the next season. If all goes well we should have goal line technology from the start of the 2012-2013 season on the EPL. If you have read what I have …
Read More “Don’t count your chickens, but goal line technology might be here in a year”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx In a few articles (maybe more than you could bear) I have been talking about referees. And I have even written a complete series on all different kind of reasons why a referee can be biased in some games. I think I wrote it down in some …
Untold Arsenal Making the Arsenal Arsenal History By Tony Attwood A team of Austrian scientists have undertaken a study to find out if swear words have predictable effects on football referee. The work which has been undertaken within the University of Austria has been published in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. Fifa’s law …
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By Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has always been one of those blogs that is very open to the thought that games can be bought in some way, either by buying some player(s) or is it by buying a ref. Why a player or a ref is bought for is something we don’t know yet. I …
Read More “Refs and scandals: Argentina, Greece, Germany, Hungary, internationals…”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Sometimes the sound of silence makes more noise than 60.000 in the Emirates. Somewhere in March I had the idea of writing a study. A study on the world of referees. …
Read More “The big European study on refs reveals something rather sinister”
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By Walter Broeckx As we were talking about my ref review of the year I mentioned in passing that Old Trafford idiom which seeks to explain why they usually get more penalties than other teams: “Because when you have more possession you obviously get more penalties”. People rightfully challenged me on this and asked me …
Read More “Is there a link between possession and penalties?”
Untold Arsenal and Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Some final thoughts By Walter Broeckx, The Untold ref who will come back next season! My ref reviews have attracted a lot of interest and so did many of the articles I wrote about refs. The discussion after such articles was a …
Read More “The final ref review – part 6 – the curtain closes for this season”
Well, well, well some more strange numbers this season By Walter Broeckx With the numbers of the refs from this season available I would like to point at a few numbers that I can get from the data I gathered in the season. And I come to the conclusion that the longer the season goes …
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Does it even out? Really? By Walter Broeckx But now comes the main question: did it all even out at the end of the season? So we will go and try to analyse this a bit more from now on. So how did I try to do this? Well I tried to make it a …
Read More “The ref review of the season, 4. The bias doesn’t come close to evening out.”
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES OF THE REFS AND SOME BIAS FROM MY PART… OR NOT? By Walter Broeckx In this article I will try to find an answer to two questions. The one is linked with my bias and the other is how did each ref do and was his score good enough if he would be …
Read More “The final ref review of the season 3: is the Untold ref review biased?”
By Walter Broeckx This article lists the decisions concerning penalties and goals that didn’t go our way and those decisions that did go our way. So this is just a general list of things and it doesn’t matter if they were decisive at the end of a game for the final score. Just a way …
