Untold’s Unacceptable Referee Review: Chelsea – Arsenal

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 …

REFEREE REVIEW: Arsenal – Tottenham

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 …

Referee Preview : Chelsea – Arsenal

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 …

Ref Review Aston Villa – Arsenal

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 Sep 2014 – The Match Officials. “A home ref”

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; …

Ref Review : Arsenal – Man City

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% …

Ref review Leicester – Arsenal

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 …

But….. he got the ball (or “It’s the consequences squire, not the intent”

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 …

Everton, the assistant, carrying the flag and an experiment

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 …

One weight, two measures: double standards on the field.

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 …

Untold Ref Review: Everton/Arsenal. What is an advantage, and what’s wrong with assistant Garratt?

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 …