Let’s swallow the bitter pill

By Walter Broeckx Any defeat hurts. Some defeats hurt more.  Sometimes life sucks and so does football. All that seem to go wrong for the moment goes wrong for Arsenal. I haven’t had the stomach to review the game and I am happy that one of the other ref reviewers is doing the game. But …

At last: the ruling on TV rights in the UK is out – and the EPL has lost

By Tony Attwood The highest court in the European Union has ruled that it is legal for individuals within the EU to buy set-top box decoder cards from other EU broadcasters and watch whatever they have to offer.  The ruling cannot be appealed. That means that in the UK, for example, we don’t suffer the …

Untold Ref Review: Chelsea 4 – Swansea 1

Background: Initially Untold Arsenal started to publish referee reviews of Arsenal matches, and through this we found some evidence of what appeared to be consistent bias by referees against Arsenal.  The point was then made we would get a better overall picture of what is going on if we also analysed errors made by referees …

Untold Ref Review: Stoke 1 – ManU 1

Background: Initially Untold Arsenal started to publish referee reviews of Arsenal matches, and through this we found some evidence of what appeared to be consistent bias by referees against Arsenal.  The point was then made we would get a better overall picture of what is going on if we also analysed errors made by referees …

Untold Ref Review : Everton 0 – Liverpool 2

Background: Initially Untold Arsenal started to publish referee reviews of Arsenal matches, and through this we found some evidence of what appeared to be consistent bias by referees against Arsenal.  The point was then made we would get a better overall picture of what is going on if we also analysed errors made by referees …