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Referee : Martin Atkinson Match : Chelsea – Arsenal This surely is one of the most bizarre performances I have seen from a ref. It brings back memories of the days when Riley was doing matches at Old Trafford and one game in particular. And I don’t know if I have to follow …
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Referee : Michael Oliver First let me say that this together with Everton – Liverpool and Sunderland-Newcastle is one of the difficult games to do. Final score overall was 72% which isn’t completely bad but certainly not great at all. When we put weight on the decisions it drops to 65% and then we …
Chelsea v Arsenal 05 October 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson Assistants – M Mullarkey and S Child Fourth Official – J Moss Martin Atkinson is another useless FIFA Accredited twat of a referee, at least as far as his beloved Chelsea and hated Arsenal are concerned. We have …
Referee : Mike Jones Match: Aston Villa – Arsenal 20/09/2014 In a way this was a walk in the park for the ref. The two teams started with fair intentions and so we only got the first foul after some 10 minutes! Amazing and even then he could have let it go. Then things got …
Aston Villa v Arsenal 20 September 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the wrong Important Decisions Table updated following Walter’s reviews of the Leicester City and Manchester City games so the numbers are for all four games played so far. In the Leicester game there were three wrong Important decisions; …
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Referee: Mark Clattenburg Week 4 13/09/2014 A somewhat confusing match from Clattenburg to be honest. Looking at the numbers his first half was rather poor. A score of only 70% and a weighted score of only 63% are very low for his standards. His score on the important decisions with a result of only 37,50% …
Referee review Leicester – Arsenal Referee : Anthony Taylor Date 31/08/2014 A referee we feared and he lived up to the expectations. The good thing is he didn’t turn up to the extreme bias he showed in the Aston Villa match last season. But he sure didn’t give us anything at all. Not even the …
HE GOT THE BALL……by Don McMahon Recently, there has been a lot of debate about a statement that pundits, media types and commentators on TV and other media regularly use to justify a serious foul during play, often committed in a manner that is excessively dangerous and careless/reckless. As Tony mentioned to me in a …
Read More “But….. he got the ball (or “It’s the consequences squire, not the intent””
By Walter Broeckx After a few articles about our match against Everton a few interesting discussions could be read in the comment section. I thought it would be interesting to go in to this matter a bit deeper. As an assistant with over 100 matches done including teams of the Jupiler League in Belgium I …
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by Don McMahon The above expression is a direct translation from a local French expression (I bet Walter knows it and maybe has a similar one in Flemish as well) and it basically means that a double-standard is being applied to some decision or judgement or use of tools that need to be encouraged. In …
Read More “One weight, two measures: double standards on the field.”
By Walter Broeckx Referee : Kevin Friend Date 23/08/2014 At the start of this match it seemed that the ref got an easy game. No real fouls. I think he fell asleep after some 10 minutes and then when he had to act he lost his touch somehow. There was hardly a foul being committed …
By Walter Broeckx Match: Arsenal – Crystal Palace Ref: Jonathon Moss Date 16/08/2014 So the PL is underway again and so are our referee reviews. Only of Arsenal matches this season. Another interesting fact is that the predictions in our referee review were again rather spot on. After a promising start ref Moss is …
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By Walter Broeckx After our first article on the video ref in which we set the scene and our second article in which we showed what the football authorities from Holland are doing to improve the refereeing standards we have shown in a third article what the PGMOL are doing in England to improve refereeing. …
Read More “The video ref is on his way part 4: how PGMOL works to silence its critics”
By Walter Broeckx In our first article on the video ref we set the scene Then in our second article we showed what the football authorities from Holland are doing to improve the refereeing standards Now we can write down what the PGMOL is doing in England to improve refereeing. …
Read More “The video ref is on his way part 3: the Premier League”
By Walter Broeckx In the first article I tried to give a short resume of what happened in the past. And on how the Dutch who always have been rather innovative in the past are once more taking the initiative in terms of something that is now still very controversial but that in my opinion is …
Read More “The video ref is on his way. Part 2 of our review of this innovation”
By Walter Broeckx Since I started writing for Untold a few years ago one of my main interests has been in writing about referees. As a referee myself I think I can add a bit of extra insight in the refereeing world and from my own experience I can see how and what can improve …
Read More “Standing still is not an option. The Video ref is on his way”
By Walter Broeckx Whenever we publish an article about referees and we tell it as we see it, we get called paranoid. Or get called other ‘nice names’ by people who put it all down to honest mistakes. Refs are holier than Jesus Christ, Mohammed the prophet, Buddha, God, the Dalai Lama, and whoever else …
Read More “So match fixing doesn’t exist? Untold Arsenal removes the tin foil hats”
By Walter Broeckx For a few seasons now it has become a normal sight that we see referees with mics wired up with each other to communicate with each other. It is only there for the top leagues of course. Usually lower league referees don’t use it or have it because of the obvious costs …
Read More “What good is it when they still can’t get it right?”
By Walter Broeckx The whole world and the media have found a fresh bone to chew on since yesterday. And by the look of it, it seems that they never had the chance to chew on such a delicate bone ever before. But by doing it the way they do it…they just are undermining their …
Read More “Untold Ref reviews spot on; Webb lets down all refs; pundits lose all logic”
By Walter Broeckx Earlier on this site appeared an article from Pete where he gave a very well written summary of things that might influence refs. In case you didn’t read it, you should and it can be found here One of his points, in fact the first point he made was the point about …
By Walter Broeckx In our earlier articles we have already talked about some proposals to improve refereeing and football. Things to make football fairer for all. Part 1 can be found here and part two can be found here So on we go with the proposals and again the proposal is written like this and …
by Walter Broeckx As in the earlier article which you can read here we will continue with analysing some proposals to improve refereeing and football in general. As these proposals were made in the comment section in an earlier article I have taken the liberty to give my opinion on them. The proposal itself is …
Read More “Proposals for better refereeing in football – Part 2”
By Walter Broeckx A few weeks ago someone in the comment section had a few proposals that could improve football. As can happen in comment sections the great comment gets lost amongst other comments and the idea doesn’t get the attention it deserved. So after weeks not having the time I found the time to …
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By Walter Broeckx With getting rid of the former moaner we had to endure at Arsenal Player we have made a major improvement. I must say that the new person they hired is much more to my liking. Adrian Clarke is the co-commentator now on Arsenal matches and he also does the analysis after the …
Read More “As Arsenal change was it really the AAA who did it, or UA?”
By Walter Broeckx This past weekend saw again another debatable/hilarious/angry making decision from a referee. A decision that helped Manchester City to the top of the league table. So of course a decision we do not like to see. Now on to the decision itself: it was the wrong decision. The laws have changed a …
Read More “Riley talks bollocks. When will football authorities take action?”
