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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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Life with a positive bias. Ref Review 2012/13: West Ham 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. ———————————————- In our last article we showed that there is the home bias as we showed in the season before in our reviews and this still was …
By Walter Broeckx In the past I have written a few articles about the rules and how they should be applied. That was in the days I didn’t go out for the complete Referee reviews. And in those days I had a bit more time. But now when we are in the off-season I have …
Read More “A short explanation of the rules: serious foul play”
Ref review 2012-2013: Home/away bias – part 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. ————————————————– After looking at the home/away bias in the more important decisions we now will try to …
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. ———————————————— Last year in our season review we pointed at the fact that we found a Home and Away bias. And this was based on calculating …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————— In this article we will continue to let you know how competent the referees have been in the games we could review in the season 2012-2013. In an earlier article we …
Read More “Only 28% of last season’s red card decisions were correct.”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of a series pulling together the huge number of referee reviews we did last season. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————— In this article we reveal how competent the referees have been in the games we reviewed in the season …
Read More “Referee Review 2012-13: How competent were the refs?”
By Walter Broeckx This is the second article in our annual referee review. Links to the earlier articles can be found at the bottom of this article. ————————————————- So after revealing how many games we reviewed last season we now will try to see how competent the refs were in general in the games we …
Read More “Take 28,038 referee decisions during the course of one season. And what do you find?”
By Walter Broeckx After having counted the games and the decisions we gradually are getting ready to start publishing the referee review of the season 2012-2013. The first thing is to show you how many games we did. And those who have been with us from the start will have known that the objective was …
Read More “Ref Review 2012 – 2013: What we did and what happens next.”
By Walter Broeckx As you may know we have been doing referee reviews for a while now. And just in case you don’t know may I add that it all started through people asking questions on Untold Arsenal after I revealed that I was a referee. First there were questions about some incidents in some …
Read More “Referee review : The report of the season 2012-2013”
By Our Man In Black If you’ve been looking closely you may have noticed that in the past weeks we have published a few rumours that are doing the rounds amongst referees. If these rumours are true then this paints the PGMO and their big boys as a not really nice and reliable organisation. Of …
Read More “Referee Rumour: Who will pull the lid off the activities of PGMO?”
By Our Man In Black We don’t use names of referees when we publish our rumours. As has been said before we trust our sources but we will not expose them to the wrath of the highly secretive and shady PGMO. And so we haven’t been able to name the refs of the PGMO officials …
By Our Man In Black BULLYING in the changing room We have been told that at least 3 top officials have been bullied, received threats and have been intimidated by senior officials from the PGMO. We do have a few names but once again we cannot publish them, or will not publish them as we …
Read More “Referee Rumours: Bullying of referees by… referees”
By Our Man In Black FITNESS To do games in the PL you need absolutely fit referees. And each referee that does games in the PL most pass a few tests. Fifa refs also take a very strict eye test. This might sound normal but we can assure you that the tests are very strict. …
Read More “REFEREE RUMOURS: In the Country of lies, can this be the only truthful organisation?”
By Our Man In Black In our last Referee Rumours we reported the rumour that not all games are assessed by the PGMO despite this being one of their main tasks. As we said then, we can assess the rumour fully because the PGMO won’t pass on their assessments. Indeed this is why Untold started …
Read More “Referee Rumours – inside stories from the murky world of PL refereeing”
By Our Man In Black If the rumours can be believed it now seems that whereas PGMO should assess the referee in all games, not all games are actually assessed. Which is rather bizarre since it means that the only place where all games are assessed from a referee point of view is Referee Decisions. …
Read More “Referee Rumours: Is the promotion and demotion of referees fixed?”
By Our Man In Black ASSESSMENTS OF GAMES According to the way the PGMO should be working each game in the PL should be assessed by the PGMO. To put it bluntly, all PL matches are meant to be assessed by a panel of assessors every Monday. But rumour has it that this is not …
Read More “Who referees the referees? It’s a bigger problem than we imagined”
By Walter Broeckx I don’t know if you ever have seen the English comedy series ‘Dad’s Army”. If you did you will probably remember the funny intro song . So if you know this tune just sign the title above along with me. I don’t know why exactly but this song suddenly came back in …
Read More “Who do you think you are fooling Mr. Riley… fewer fouls given does not mean more goals”
By Walter Broeckx When is a referee error not a referee error? Now we know – it is when PGMO (the shadowy body that controls English Premier League refereeing) doesn’t see it. As Mr. Riley head of the PGMO has come out in the open with his numbers that I have talked about in another …
Read More “Refs report only 5.8% of all the errors they make in a match.”
By Walter Broeckx Well can you believe it. Untold asks the PGMO to speak up and to come out of the dark and on the same day Mike Riley comes out to talk about referees and fouls in the PL. This can be found on the BBC website over here First let us see at …
Read More “Mike Riley gives us numbers, but the explanation makes uncomfortable reading”
By the Referee Rumour Mill Welcome to the new world – not transfer rumours but referee rumours. If you are a regular reader you will know that Untold has been covering the murky world of referees for years. If you want to see some of our past work take a lot at the Corruption Archive …
Match Review: Howard Webb – Newcastle United Vs Arsenal (0 – 1) [19/05/2013] If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: Read this to fully understand our reviews. Today’s referee is Howard Webb MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Howard Webb (2013-05-19) Period 1 Min Type From On C/NC Reviewer …
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Match Review: Mike Dean – Arsenal Vs Wigan Athletic ( – ) [14/05/2013] If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: Read this to fully understand our reviews. Today’s referee is Mike Dean MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Mike Dean (2013-05-14) Period 1 Min Type From On C/NC Reviewer …
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Match Review: Jonathan Moss – Queens Park Rangers Vs Arsenal (0 – 1) [04/05/2013] If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: Read this to fully understand our reviews. Today’s referee is Jonathan Moss MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Jonathan Moss (2013-05-04) Period 1 Min Type From On C/NC …
by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Howard Webb next. And this is the final article in this series. We have talked about teams and then showed how each team did with each ref. And then we did the ref articles …
Read More “What’s wrong with PL refs. The last case study: Webb”
