Refs and yellow cards: is each club treated the same? Definitely not.

Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk   Commentary from Tony We have been discovering huge variations in the number of fouls per card given by referees and how these might be explained by the severity of the fouls, or the leniency or otherwise of the referee.  But also there is another possibility here – …

How can we know that strange “fouls per card” figures don’t come by chance?

This article follows from “If Premier League matches were fixed, how would we know?” Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk   Commentary from Tony   In the last article we saw that huge variations exist in the number of fouls it takes in games to get a card. But of course such figures as …

If Premier League matches are fixed, how would we know?

Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk   Commentary from Tony. This is part one of a three part series on data that suggests match fixing might be happening in the Premier League, which is being published through the course of today.   I started by asking myself a simple question: if something dubious was …