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By Walter Broeckx In this part of the series on what could cause poor refereeing in the EPL, I want to talk about a very personal subject of the ref. His inner thoughts and how it could affect them. As well as some hard-to-discover issues happen in all countries and why should the EPL be …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony This is the third article in referee Walter Broeckx series about the reasons behind the extraordinarily poor state of refereeing in the Premier League as revealed in his regular post-match analysis of the number of decisions right, wrong and missed in each Arsenal …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx In part one of this series Walter presented the first two points in his argument that there is something very wrong with refereeing in the Premier League -noting that there are not nearly enough referees and that those that we …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Gfor60 “Say it ain’t so, Joe”… a few thoughts on football and betting syndicates. Well before the Boston White Sox baseball scandal, bribery has been used to influence games of skill . You name the sport, it’s had its share. Even the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx In my previous articles I showed you that the level of the refs in the EPL is below par. Now I will try to give a few reasons on to why some things might be wrong. But a word of …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Walter Broeckx continues his series of articles on the standard of referring in the Premier League. You can read Walter’s last article (The shocking figures that show the Premier League is bent) on this site, and we have an introduction to the series …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the trend watching ref As you may know (and most of you appreciate my work on reviewing the refs) I try my best to keep records of each game and how the ref has done his job. But I also try …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the sad ref Every time before the game I have one hope. And certainly after the match this midweek with the completely worthless performance of Ref Mason I was hoping to be able to stop my ref review with one …
By Walter Broeckx, the onside referee Is it a good sign that all the talk is about the ref after the game? Most of the time not. But let us just try and find out if we reached new heights or lows in our ref review. Ref today was Lee Mason, for the first time …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony RefWatch – Arsenal v Everton (01/02/2011 19:45) By DogFace Referee: Lee Mason Assistant 1: Stephen Child Assistant 2: Patrick Keane 4th Official: Kevin Wright [who?!] Good afternoon stat-fans and welcome to your favourite time of the week; it’s Ref Watch time! This week …
By Walter Broeckx, the speachless ref As some supporters had a lot of questions about the ref I tried to be as complete as I could. So I did try to count the numbers of fouls not given during the game from both sides. I did not include the correct given fouls as this is …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx After my first article on fouls I went a step further and have a look at the yellow cards the teams have received in the EPL this season. The first thing I did was see how many yellow cards were …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx As you will know by now I love numbers. I probably have bored you to death with all my numbers and to make a chance I will give you another set of numbers. This time I will try to tackle …
Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the celebrating ref The Ref in this second leg of the Carling Cup semi final was Mike Halsey. Second time we had him this season and let us take a look at his game. PENALTY/CARD: Cesc goes down in the penalty area. There was an arm from the Ipswich …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the surprised ref Today we had a débutante in the Emirates for Arsenal as Dog Face announced in his inimitable column yesterday. Was ref Kevin Friend still my friend after the game? Let us start our search. OTHER: Song gives …
RefWatch – Arsenal v Wigan Athletic (22/01/2011 15:00) By DogFace ————– Today’s RefWatch is dedicated to Phil Gregory (although Dogface hasn’t approved this because we didn’t have time to tell him). Phil writes on economics and does our match previews, and today joins the refereeing clan by taking his first match. Everyone at Untold and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the OH MY GOD referee When I saw that Mike Dean was the ref I felt something bad in my stomach. I do admit that I don’t like him. He has a style of refereeing which I absolutely don’t like. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the hammering ref So down to West Ham we went (unless one lives in Ealing Walter, as I did for a few years, in which case you hop on the Central Line and go across – Ed), I always thought …
You might also enjoy: Another grey day: the match preview RefWatch – West Ham United v Arsenal (15/01/2011 17:30) By DogFace Andre Marriner: Andre Marriner Assistant 1: Simon Beck Assistant 2: Andy Newbold 4th Official: Lee Probert Good morning stat-fans and welcome to another RefWatch – apologies to Tony as I got …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the not amused ref Most of the times it is great fun to do these ref reviews. And every now and then it is hard work and I have to force me to start doing it. There are some games you really would …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx The first FA cup game and leading the teams out was ref Phil Dowd. How was his game ? OTHER: A Leeds defender comes in with a frontal tackle and blocks the ball with one foot but goes in with the other foot …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the surgeon ref One of our critical readers, and thank God we have many critical readers, didn’t accept right away my view on the penalty incident in our game against City. Fair enough I think it is everyone is right to contest what …
Twitter on Arsenal @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx, the untold ref For the coming of Manchester Cattanacio we had ref Mike Jones at the Emirates. So let us try to see how he did the game from a ref point of view. OTHER: A few early decisions, to keep the players …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By DogFace Referee: Mike Jones Assistant 1: Darren Cann Assistant 2: Stephen Child 4th Official: Stuart Attwell Good day stat-fans and welcome again to another article in the famous RefWatch series (as read in the Alpha Centauri system where they [the Gooolagh a tri-sexed silicone based …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the new year’s ref Peter Walton was the ref at Birmingham today. And he was in charge when Stoke finally managed to break Ramsey’s leg last season after letting go too many tackles. Was he up to it today…? OTHER: ….With less than …
