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Ref for this match was Neil Swarbrick The first minute the ref should have booked O Brien who came in frontal towards Monreal. In control but surely with studs showing over the ground. A booking would have been the only correct call even in the first minute. Minutes later a very important call to make …
Ref on the day was Martin Atkinson Well that was a match with lots of big decisions. And not really the +98% score the PGMO tells us that referees get in general. In the first half the ref awarded a penalty for a clear foul on Alexis. It proved to be his only correct penalty …
By Walter Broeckx Only last week I found a comment on Untold that went like this: “The refs are not only unfair to Arsenal. If u check the record of refs in games of Chelsea, man city,lvpool, man utd and others this season , you wil find out that they are treated unfairly too. Everything …
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Ref for this match was Michael Oliver A match of two halves for the ref. The first half he was excellent. Just falling for a dive from Coutinho and not giving a foul in favour of Alexis when it was a foul. But for the rest spot on with his decisions. So an excellent score …
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Ref on the day was Lee Mason Referee Mason surely got off with a bad start. Tiote deliberately putting his studs in the chest of Alexis and he completely ignored or missed it. If as some say he couldn’t see it, it was down to a technical error from the ref. Bad positioning it is …
Ref (or whatever you want to call him) on the day was Anthony Taylor As most of you will never look back at the match in full and I can understand that but as a reviewer we have the hard task to do this. Mostly it is fun but not this time. As a referee …
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Referee : Andre Marriner Please note this is one of a large series of ref reviews – a series that started some four years ago, with the reviews undertaken by numerous qualified referees. With ref Marinner we had one of the more experienced refs in the PL and one of the better. On paper. And …
By Walter Broeckx based on the research done by Goonermikey who should get the credit for this article A while ago Goonermikey came up with the stats about how Wenger has overachieved per £1m of net spend on transfers and how this compared with other EPL clubs over a decade. And now he has come up with …
Ref : Chris Foy Just look at that first half from referee Chris Foy! Only one wrong call in the entire first half. Brilliant one could say. If it wouldn’t have been for the fact that the only wrong call was a not given penalty when Mulumba kicked Giroud in the penalty area and no …
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Sorry for the delay but finally we can resume our referee reviews and we continue with Arsenal – Manchester United. Referee : Mike Dean Apart from Arsenal missing too many chances the big talking points in the first half was firstly the not given penalty for a foul on Wilshere. Shaw blocked his run and …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Before I go into this weeks officials, here is the table of wrong Important Decisions extracted from Walter’s referee reviews. Three wrong Important decisions from the Swansea game, matching not given penalties and a not given red card to Ashley Williams at the start of the second half, a game changer if …
by Don McMahon Inspired by an article that Tony recently penned and as a follow-on to my recent articles dealing with the ins and outs of refereeing, I felt it was apropos to present a brief overview of more of the tricky and difficult path an aspiring referee has to travel to get to the …
By Walter Broeckx I think it was halfway September that I for the first time predicted that we would have Dean for our match against Manchester United. And who did Mike Riley appointed for this match this Monday? Yes, the Untold prediction on referees once again was spot on. Mike Dean it will be. In …
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By Walter Broeckx Thanks to a good wind we have the end of season report from the PGMO over the season 2011-2012. A season Untold Arsenal also covered in their ref review history for a big part. In the first article we looked at the way the PGMO rates their referees and who it would …
By Walter Broeckx When I got my hands on the end of season 2011-2012 report from the PGMO (the secret organisation that runs the referees in the PL) I compared this with the numbers we gathered over the same season. I talked about this in a first article that you can find here and then …
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By Walter Broeckx In my first article I said that I had an end of year report from the PGMOL still with the L in those days in which they said that they only have noticed 43 wrong key decisions in the whole season 2011-2012. Of course if you think about that number for more …
Don McMahon in my never-ending eagerness to anticipate potential improvements to the Beautiful Game and at the same time explore what other sports have experimented with or are considering doing, the urge to write a definitive compendium of such ideas and changes has overwhelmed me. So I did an internet search and a bit of …
By Walter Broeckx It might sound pretentious such a title but once again we can say that we have been talking about things in the world of football that we were heavily ridiculed for at times (till today still by some) that are now slowly filtering through to the serious media. Untold Arsenal setting the …
Referee : Phil Dowd So we had our old friend Phil Dowd in an Arsenal match. Main talking points in the first half: A possible penalty for Swansea. I know that only a handful of refs will give it against Arsenal and never in favour of Arsenal but when a defender jumps in the …
By Walter Broeckx When we published the referee review from the Arsenal – Burnley match it was obvious that the non decision for the handball from Burnley player Boyd in his own penalty area was the most important item. To make it clear I will try to link to a vine where you can see …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter’s referee review of the Burnley Game, I have included a Second Yellow Card and a Penalty for the not given deliberate handball at Min 20. No other wrong Important Decisions. There is still no signs of these decisions evening out, now nearly 5 to 1 against Arsenal and nearly …
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Referee : Craig Pawson A new ref, a new opponent so for our referee previewer it was new territory as it was for me as a reviewer. So what can we say about the ref his performance. Let us go over the match in a chronological order. Only 2 small fouls in the first 15 …
Arsenal v Burnley 01 November 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Firstly, here is the ongoing table of wrong Important Decisions for the season – still no signs of anything “evening out in the end”; four in Arsenal’s favour, 17 against. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 4 …
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Referee : Kevin Friend The full commentary follows the chart below. Someone before the match predicted we would drop points (wrong prediction) and then would moan about the referee (yes we will moan a bit) but the two together: not. We won and even in the match report that came online minutes after kick off …
Referee : Roger East Match: Arsenal – Hull The detailed commentary on the referee in this game, follows the chart. Let me start by saying that in the opening 15 minutes Hull didn’t start to kick us as other teams have done this season. No they were rather clean even in their fouls. Some pushing …
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