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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: Which two refs helped Reading the most?”
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 2013/13 part 8 SOUTHAMPTON. An extraordinary mixture”
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 Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Stoke. Three totally unbiased refs!”
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 Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was the big friend of Sunderland 6”
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 Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was Tottenham’s bogey ref?”
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 having given the award for the best ref of last season …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was a good ref for WBA. (Hint: it wasn’t Probert)”
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 : Which ref works well for West Ham?”
By Walter Broeckx In another article Andrew has reported a few things about the ref who has been appointed by Mike Riley, head of the PGMOL for the Norwich Arsenal match. But there is more about this ref. The first time we had him on our radar was early in the season 2009-2010. Our away …
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 : Wigan and the bias of 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 we now are bringing it all together. In the last …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : The best ref in the PL was….”
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 we now are bringing it all together. In the last article in …
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. __________________________ For the next and last ref in our series we have ref Roger East. Roger East, born in 1965 and so he is around 48 years …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Roger East. A short term solution”
By Walter Broeckx Slowly, very slowly the truth is coming out about the PGMOL. Very, very slowly. And much too slow for my liking. But still, there is progress. For a few years now we have been pointing at the things that are wrong in the referee world. I have written (apart from the reviews) …
Read More “Untold lightyears ahead of the real world as cracks appear in PGMOL”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Phil Dowd. 50 year old ref Dowd is one of the older refs in the PL. …
Read More “Referee Reviews: Phil Dowd. After a good year, a year in decline”
By Walter Broeckx I didn’t intend to talk about this any further. But as the comments are divided I thought it was time to try to bring some clarity to this incident. There are roughly speaking two versions. One is saying (in simple terms): Mulumbu played the ball first and then made contact with Wilshere …
Read More “The Mulumbu – Wilshere incident: penalty or not? How the English media stands alone”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Michael Oliver. Ref Oliver is still only 28 years old so we might be seeing him …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Michael Oliver. This doesn’t look too clever.”
By Walter Broeckx Ever since the day I started the referee reviewing system on Untold a few seasons ago the one thing that came out of most numbers was that we could see a bias in favour of Manchester United. For years we have been suggesting this was the case, and got it confirmed by …
Read More “How Manchester United influenced referees, year after year after year”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Michael Jones. Out of favour ref for the moment one could say as until now he …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Michael Jones. Poor discipline.”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Martin Atkinson. Another one of those 42 years old refs we have in the PL. And …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Martin Atkinson. This is not a Fifa ref.”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Mark Halsey. Now retired ref Halsey has been in the PL for many years and stopped …
By Walter Broeckx Tinfoil hats they said. We were idiots. We were mad. Crazy, deluded. The usual bunch of nice words you get when you dare to challenge the ‘authorities’ in football. Now it seems that Mark Halsey has opened the box (dare I say Pandora’s box?) and it will be interesting to see how …
Read More “Ref corruption: it is time to start questioning Manchester United”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Mark Clattenburg. Ref Clattenburg has been in the PL since 2004 and is a FIFA …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Mark Clattenburg – good on red poor on yellow”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Lee Probert. Ref Probert has been in the PL for a few years now (since 2007 …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Lee Probert. This is not acceptable.”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Kevin Friend. Kevin Friend came in to the PL in 2009 and has now a few …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Kevin Friend. Over 90% right, but a red card disaster.”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Lee Mason. Ref Mason has been in the PL for a few years now (since 2006 …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Lee Mason. The ref with penalty area fever and Arsenal phobia”
