The analysis of the performance of referees vis a vis each premier league club appeared on Untold Arsenal in March and April 2013.
Here’s the index of articles (further articles are appearing on Untold Arsenal:
Calciopoli in England
Calciopoli in England – part 1
Calciopoli in England – the evidence
Referees and individual clubs
- What’s wrong with PL refs. The last case study: Webb
- What is wrong with PL refs? A case study: Taylor
- What is wrong with PL refs: a case study – Swarbrick
- What is wrong with PL refs : a case study. Probert
- So what is wrong with PL refs…a case study: Moss
- IN MEMORIAM of the referee who died from a punch received during a youth match
So what is wrong in the PL: The Mike Riley Factor
So what is wrong with the PL Refs: Case study Atkinson
So what is wrong with the PL Refs: Case study Clattenburg
Knowing who the ref is can help: Mike Dean
So what is wrong with the PL Refs: Dowd
So what is wrong with PL refs: a case study Jones
So what is wrong with PL refs? A case study – Halsey
PL refs, a case study: Marriner
The club analysis
So what’s wrong with the Premier League – the opening part of the story
Is it right to have refs doing two PL games over a weekend?
Case study 7: Newcastle United
Case study 14: Tottenham Hotspur
Case study 16: West Ham
Case study 17: Wigan.
Previous articles on referees…
- The bias that teams can get from playing at home
- Wrong second yellow cards
- Wrong red card decisions
- Wrong PENALTY decisions, a closer look.
- Wrong goal decisions
- It doesn’t all even out in the end
- Extrapolating important decisions
The earlier series of reviews:
- 1. Who reviewed the games
- 2. What we did and what next
- 3. All the decisions in numbers
- 4. The first, at times astonishing, numbers
- 5. Home and away bias
- 6. It all evens out in the end – Wigan last season
- 7. West Ham: Life with a positive bias
- 8. West Brom and the Referees
- 9. Tottenham, penalties and some amusing comments
- 10. Swansea City and a change this year
- 11. Sunderland, a positive bias
- 12. Stoke, where refereeing is different.
- 13. Southampton – how did they ever survive?
- 14. QPR – a strange case
- 15. Norwich – more errors than acceptable
- 16. Newcastle United – again, more errors than there should be.
- 17. Manchester United: 70% of wrong decisions in their favour.
- 18. Manchester City: unlike their neighbours a very small bias.
- 19: Liverpool: you should blame the refs
- 20: Fulham – it all evens out in the end
- 21: Everton: a slight bias in favour
- 22: Chelsea: an occasional bias against
- 23: Aston Villa: a huge bias in favour
- 24: Refs give opposition freedom to kick Arsenal off the park.
- 25. The complete league bias table
- 26. Untold has said it for a long while, others follow
- 27. Andre Marriner; a good ref but 10% of his goal decisions are wrong!
- 28: Anthony Taylor: Disastrous when it comes to penalties
- 29. Chris Foy: Very bad on cards and fouls
- 30. Howard Webb, an amazing score
- 31: Jonathon Moss: Over 90% right.
- 32: Lee Mason, the ref with penalty area fever
- 33: Kevin Friend: the red card disaster
- 34: Lee Probert: This is not acceptable
- 35: Mark Clattenburg: good on red, poor on yellow
- 36: Mark Halsey: under half his penalty decisions were correct
- 37: Martin Atkinson. This is not a Fifa ref
- 38: Michael Jones: Poor discipline
- 39: Michael Oliver: This doesn’t look too clever
- 40: Mike Dean – an unacceptable bias.
- 41: Neil Swarbrick. Every goal right but oh the bias
- 42: Phil Dowd: After a good year, a year in decline
- 43: Roger East a short term solution
- 44: The Referee Competency League Table
- 45. The most unbiased referee in the PL
- 46 The best ref of the season 2012/13
- 47. Wigan and the bias of the ref
- 48. West Ham and the bias of the refs
- 49. WBA and the bias of the refs
- 50. Tottenham Hotspur and the bias of the refs
- 51. Swansea and the bias of the refs
- 52. Sunderland and the bias of the refs
- 53. Stoke: Three unbiased refs
- 54: Southampton, an extraordinary mix
- 55: Reading, which two refs helped them the most?
- 56. QPR and the bias of the refs
- 57. Norwich and the bias of the refs
- 58. Newcastle and the bias of the refs
- 59. Manchester United and the bias of the refs
- 60. Manchester City and the bias of the refs
- 61. Liverpool and the bias of the refs
- 62. Fulham and the bias of the refs
- 63. Everton and the bias of the refs
- 64. Chelsea and the bias of the refs
- 65. Aston Villa and the bias of the refs
- 66: Arsenal – and the total bias of the refs
