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For the game between Wolverhampton and Chelsea we had ref Peter Walton. The crowd didn’t like his performance but how did our ref reviewer rated his performance?

A supplemental note from myself is that when you come at the bottom of the ref review you will see that I have tried to bring some change to the additional ratings of the ref. I will not bore you with the details behind this change but believe me it is only to allow us to stick our nose even deeper in whatever mud we can find about the refs.

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
3	Foul	Berra	Torres	C	Through the back no contact with ball, a bad tackle	1	1
3	Yellow	Berra		N/C	It really should have been a yellow, the Ref has missed a chance to take control of the game	0	0
4	Foul	Steerman	Mata	C	could again have been a yellow, but I will go with the Ref	1	1
6	Foul	Tweedy	Frimpong	C	A seriously bad challenge after a heavy touch	1	1
6	Yellow	Tweedy		N/C	This was a dead cert yellow, late and reckless	0	0
6	Foul	Doyle	Terry	N/C	After looking 5 times like Doyle I am still confused what it is for	0	0
9	Foul	Torres	Johnson	N/C	Pushes him off the ball to win possesion	0	0
24	Foul	Lampard	Hammill	C	The worst challenge of the game, late, studs up, on the ankle, Frank knows he is in trouble	1	1
24	Red	Lampard	N/C	The Ref issues a yellow for the sort of challenge that no one likes to see	0	0
25	Foul	Hammill	Tweedy	C	Late, slidin, left foot in	1	1
25	Yellow	Hammill		C	No option	1	2
26	Other			C	Good advantage played leads to a Chelsea chance	1	1
26	Foul	Henry	Torres	C	One of those where a player runs across the line of another and catches the foot, unintentional, harmless, but still impeding	1	1
26	Yellow	Henry		N/C	It was a genuine harmless accident, and there were covering players so no goalscoring opportunity	0	0
27	Foul	Doyle	Lampard	N/C	Just pushes him out of way to take ball on sideline	0	0
28	Foul	Tweedy	Steerman	N/C	He takes the ball cleanly, but his trailing leg floors the Wolves player on the touchline, Ref gives nothing, a borderline yellow, but I will support Ref on this one, reluctantly.	0	0
29	Foul	Tweedy	Doyle	C	Tweedy just lashes out at the ball kicking Doyle on the chest, the Ref must have seen it because he gives the foul	1	1
29	Yellow	Tweedy		N/C	JT chats to the Ref who does not book Tweedy, I am astonished, Tweedy could have been yellow carded 3 times now	0	0
29	Yellow	Doyle		N/C	The thin degenerates into farce as Doyle walks past Tweedy and from 2 yards, underarm, throws the ball at him with no malice, he is yellow carded, No consistency at all.	0	0
33	Foul	Romeou	Hammill	C		1	1
33	Yellow	Romeou		N/C	Looking at in in context of the game never a yellow, he kicks the ball against the hoarding after whistle is blown, it comes straight back to him in about a second with no loss of time, The Ref may be booking for dissent, but other players have contsested many decisions	0	0
36	Foul	Doyle	Romeou	C		1	1
37	Offside	Mata		C		1	1
37	Other	Terry		C	Handball	1	1
	Half time					13	14
			CORRECT		54,17%	42,42%
	YELLOW				1	8	12,50
	RED				0	1	0,00
	PENALTY
	GOAL
	OTHER				7	8	87,50
					8	17	47,06
	OFFSIDE				1	1	100,00
	Second half
48	Foul	Louiz	Doyle	N/C	Ref calls it the wrong way as Louiz moved into Doyle pushing him out of way	0	0
50	Foul	Frimpong	Lampard	C		1	1
50	Foul	Ramirez	Doyle	C		1	1
54	Goal	Ramirez		C		1	3
56	Offside	Doyle		C		1	1
61	Foul	Fletcher	Boswinga	N/C	Pushes him in back as he clears the ball, forcing a miskick	0	0
62	Foul	Torres	Henry	C	Going with ref	1	1
63	Foul	Jarvis	Ramirez	C		1	1
63	Yellow	Jarvis		N/C	This was an easy yellow, he took player out, hurt him badly, and broke up a Chelsea attack	0	0
64	Foul	Meireles	Fletcher	N/C	A foul on Fletcher 2 yards from the Ref, he puts whistle to his mouth, but Fletcher gets up with ball, no advantage is indicated, and none gained, poor Reffing	0	0
70	Foul	Wolves	Mata	N/C	Mata goes for a 1-2 his run is blocked of the ball	0	0
73	Foul	Jarvis	Boswinga	N/C	Pushes him to ground to win ball	0	0
75	Foul	Edwards	Torres	N/C	It was the other way, even the commentators are laughing	0	0
84	Goal			C	Ward	1	3
85	Foul	Foley	Lampard	C		1	1
89	Goal			C	Lampard	1	3
92	Offside	Torres		C		1	1
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					10	16
	%		CORRECT		58,82%	66,67%
	YELLOW				1	1	100,00
	RED
	PENALTY
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				1	1	100,00
					5	5	100,00
	OFFSIDE				1	1	100,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					23	30
	%		CORRECT		56,10%	52,63%
	YELLOW				2	9	22,22
	RED				0	1	0,00
	PENALTY			0	0
	GOAL				3	3	100,00
	OTHER				8	9	88,89
					13	22	59,09
	OFFSIDE				2	2	100,00
	NEW	TEST	1st half	2nd half	Total		%
	WRONG	NC F WOL 1	1	4	5
		NCF WOL 2	2	0	2
		NCF WOL 3	0	0	0
		Total normal	1	4	5	FA WOL	50,00%
		Total important	2	0	2	FA WOL	33,33%
		General Total	3	4	7	FA WOL	43,75%
	WRONG	NC F CHE 1	3	2	5
		NC F CHE 2	3	0	3
		NC F CHE 3	1	0	1
		Total normal	3	2	5	FA CHE	50,00%
		Total important	4	0	4	FA CHE	66,67%
		General total	7	2	9	FA CHE	56,25%
		TOTAL NORMAL WRONG	10
		TOTAL IMPORTANT WRONG	6
		GENERAL TOTAL WRONG		16
	CORRECT	CF WOL1	6	3	9
		CF WOL2	0	0	0
		CF WOL3	0	1	1
		Total normal	6	3	9
		Total important	0	1	1
	CORRECT	CF CHE 1	5	4	9
		CF CHE 2	2	1	3
		CF CHE 3	0	2	2
		Total normal	5	4	9
		Total Important	2	3	5
		Foul WOL	6	7	13
		FOUL CHE	7	5	12

“The Premier League is full of Shit”, sing the Wolves fans.

This was an astonishingly bad performance from Peter Walton, the first half was spoilt by his dereliction of duty, he was so biased to Chelsea it was an embarrassment to the laws of the game. in the second half he seemed determined to make up for the amount of bad calls against Wolves in the first half, and swung the other way, but not to the extent that he favoured Chelsea.

The decision not to red Card Lampard was wrong; he has justified full frontal, stud showing tackles that miss the ball and crash into the opponents shins to all who play the game. He not only let himself down he let every Ref in the country down with his cowardice. How Cashley Tweedy was not cautioned in the first half was equally baffling, there were two easy yellows but being an England International saves you many a yellow card. Tweedy was much restrained in the second half, someone had a word in his ear I guess.

The decision to caution Henry was wrong, the decision to caution Doyle could be justified, but not in the context of what Chelsea players were getting away with. Doyle did throw the ball at Tweedy, but in a manner that was to pass it to him, there was no aggression. The decision not to caution Jarvis I thought was apologetic, for all he done wrong to Wolves prior to the Jarvis foul.

It may not look like it but I have been generous to Walton, there were two other cautions that I have gone with him on, the Foul by Steedman on 4 and Tweedy on 28 were also cautionable, but I gave Walton the benefit of interpretation.

All in all a bad day for Walton, a bad day for Refs, a bad for the EPL and a bad day for the paying public, who broke into a chorus of “THE PREMIER LEAGUE IS FULL OF SHIT” on more than one occasion.

Aditional remarks about the new format at the end. I was hoping it would be mud we had to stick our nose in but apparently it is shit. Oh well, sticking in is what we will do.

With this model we should be able to make a difference between what we could consider not that important wrong decisions (all wrong decisions are important in fact!) and the more important one in a second. If you see e.g. NC FA WOL 1= Not Correct in Favour of Wolves counting for 1 in the weight scale. NC FA WOL 2= Not Correct in Favour of Wolves counting for 2 in the weight scale (yellow cards) NC FA WOL 3= Not Correct in Favour of Wolves counting for 3 in the weight scale (red/penalty/goal). Obviously if you see CHE somewhere this means Chelsea.

In this case we can see that the normal mistakes are nicely divided at the end of the game with 50% going against each team. This is the normal fouls somewhere in the middle of the field. But when we look at the important decisions we see that Chelsea was getting a lot from the ref. 66.67% of those important (yellow/red/penalties/goals) went in favour of Chelsea and thus 33.33% only went in favour of Wolves.

And if we take all the wrong calls together this means that Chelsea had a benefit against Wolves.

And all this can be seen divided over both halves also. So you can see that the ref was in love with Chelsea in the first half when it came to wrong calls but changed it around a bit in the second half.

So a change at the end of the reviews. Hope you like it. If not let us know. Now Dogface, where do I have to put my nose in? In that? No you can’t be serious? Oh, you are… okay…wish me luck…..