Ref Review 2012/13: The bias that teams get from the refs by playing at home

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.  __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked  closely at …

Liverpool manager takes up Untold’s call: there is something profoundly rotten with the refereeing system

By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Telegraph, Brendan Rodgers, “is to ask the Premier League why ‘a referee from Greater Manchester’ was in charge of Thursday’s fixture [v Man City] which ended in a controversial defeat for the visitors.” This is a very welcome step forwards, because it continues to force the issue of …

Tactics review – Swansea away

This article continues our occasional review of the tactics employed by Arsenal this season. By Arvind This is the game against Swansea at the Liberty. A super interesting game when I watched it slowly. It’s a classic template of how we’re doing what teams used to do to us a few years ago. It’s just …