Ref Review 2012/13: Mark Halsey – With under half his penalties correct it is farewell, goodbye auf wiedersehen

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 …

Ref corruption: it is time to start questioning Manchester United

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 …

UEFA Youth League : Marseille 1 – 4 Arsenal

By Walter Broeckx Last year we had the Nextgen series and Arsenal got to the semi finals to lose against Chelsea with 4-3 in extra time. That was rather an interesting match to see. We then also lost the last game so Arsenal finished in 4th place. But as Nextgen was not organized by Uefa …