The untold ref review : Arsenal – Birmingham

By Walter Broeckx, referee With the visit of Birmingham came also ref Atkinson to the Emirates. Since the Eduardo incident a very tricky game and with from Arsenal’s point of view games where the casualty list was high in the past seasons: Eduardo, Walcott, Cesc…just to name a few. Just take a look at the …

Arsenal 13, Birmingham 6, time wasting 25

By Tony Attwood After about ten minutes of this game the question arose – can the ref do anything about a playing who feigns injury, and then, when the other team pause to see if he is ok, leaps up uninjured and tries to get the ball back. We debated it, because that’s what we …