By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “REf Review 2012/13: bias per team home and away games”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “REf Review 2012/13 : The bias that teams can get playing at home”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: The bias that teams get from the refs by playing at home”
By Tony Attwood And so, after years of pointing out that there is something seriously wrong with refereeing in the Premier League, the English papers have started to admit that there might be a problem. Not all of them, and most are hedging their bets talking of referee mistakes, and the views of “Arsenal supporters”, …
Read More “At last the English media recognise there’s something seriously wrong with the referees”
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood (Note: the gathering of data and interpretation of it is by Walter. The commentary on sampling techniques is by Tony) This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: extrapolating Important decisions”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked more closely …
Read More “Does it “all even out in the end”? At last the answer!”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013 : Wrong GOAL decisions a closer look”
By Walter Broeckx Despite me saying that I would no longer do reviews the events of the Manchester City match forced me to have a go at this match with the old format we used two seasons ago. For those who are not familiar with the rules: in case of doubt we give the ref …
Read More “A referee review Martin City – Arsenal. An utterly unacceptable referee”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closer at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013 : Wrong RED cards decisions a closer look – Nr. 2”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closer at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013 : Wrong 2nd yellow cards decisions a closer look”
By Walter Broeckx Most of the times writing articles for Untold is fun. I also have found much joy in the referee revciews we have done. I can say it is something that I once started all those years ago and that has grown in to what you can see over here on this site …
Read More “The ref review: the final chapter (or is it?)”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Arsenal. If you think football in England is not biased, best not to read this.”
By Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 I looked at which referees delivered unbiased refereeing based on a series of criteria I defined. I noted that nearly 1 game in five met the criteria for unbiased refereeing or to put it the other way 4 out of 5 games didn’t – which is not a very …
Read More “Unbiased Referees Part 2: The teams”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Aston Villa”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Chelsea”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Everton”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : Fulham”
By Andrew Crawshaw What constitutes unbiased refereeing? A simple question, the answer depends to a large degree on one’s viewpoint. To me the answer comes in three parts. 1- Games where the referee made no mistakes – and yes there were some last year. 2 – Games where there were so few referee mistakes that …
Read More “Unbiased refereeing in 2012/13 – Part 1 the Referees”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Liverpool”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Manchester City”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Manchester United”
by Andrew Crawshaw The PGMOL have spun the dice and our officials for the week are :- Referee – Michael Oliver Assistants – S Burt and S Long 4th Official – Andre Marriner So it’s not Dean, Taylor or any of the other obvious villains, however his figures for us last year …
Read More “Manchester United v Arsenal 10 November 2013 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Newcastle Utd. One ref utterly pro, one ref utterly against”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : Norwich. It mostly balances.”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: 10 QPR; a positive bias especially from one ref.”