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Today’s referee is Phil Dowd and on this side of the fence we had ref reviewer 04.
And in our continuing quest for the Holy Grail (= a higher standard in refereeing) we adapted our model a bit thanks to the combined forces of refwatcher DogFace and myself. So what you are about to read is the new version of how we will try to present our ref reviews.
You will miss the column with the points. Because in fact this was the same as was in the column C/NC. At the bottom we tried to present the data of the two teams next to each other and on the same line in the hope it is more clear compared to the last models we used. So hope you enjoy the new model.
| MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Phil Dowd (2012-01-14) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | ||||||
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | Weight |
| 5 | OTHER | Bendtner | Cole | C | Trip | 1 |
| 8 | OTHER | Luiz | Bendtner | C | Trip | 1 |
| 8 | YELLOW | Luiz | C | Came late, promising attack | 2 | |
| 13 | GOAL | Chelsea | C | Correct goal | 3 | |
| 15 | OTHER | Romeu | Bardsley | C | Push | 1 |
| 18 | OTHER | NC | Throw to Sunderland given to Chelsea | 1 | ||
| 19 | OTHER | Torres | Vaughan | C | Trip | 1 |
| 22 | OTHER | Cattermole | Lampard | C | Push | 1 |
| 26 | OTHER | Sun? | Romeu | NC | Stopped him with the arm, not given | 1 |
| 26 | OTHER | Vaughan | Luiz | C | Trip | 1 |
| 27 | OTHER | Lampard | Bardsley | C | Two fouls in a row | 1 |
| 40 | OTHER | Bosingwa | C | Handball signalled by the assistant | 1 | |
| 41 | OTHER | Bardlsey | Torrest | C | Obstruction | 1 |
| 42 | OTHER | C | Kilgallon gets injured after landing bad, refs sees something is wrong and stops play immediately | 0 | ||
| 46 | OTHER | Romeu | O’Shea | C | Little kick | 1 |
| 47 | OTHER | Bendtner | Romeu | C | Push | 1 |
| Period 2 | ||||||
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | Weight |
| 46 | OTHER | Bosingwa | Bendtner | C | 1 | |
| 50 | OTHER | Bosingwa | Richardson | C | 1 | |
| 52 | OTHER | Sun, | Mata | NC | Late challenge not given | 1 |
| 58 | PENALTY | O’shea | Torres | NC | Trip | 3 |
| 58 | PENALTY | Cole | Bendtner | NC | Jumped in his back | 3 |
| 58 | OTHER | Cattermole | Lampard | C | Trip | 1 |
| 58 | YELLOW | Cattermole | C | Commits a foul and starts protesting the not given penalty. Correct booking | 2 | |
| 60 | OTHER | Romeu | Sessegnon | C | Advantage given, schot just wide | 1 |
| 61 | OTHER | Terry | Sessegnon | C | Trip | 1 |
| 65 | OTHER | Cattermole | Lampard | C | Not visible | 1 |
| 66 | PENALTY | Bardsley | Torres | NC | Bardsley hits Torres on the knee when he goes past him | 3 |
| 67 | YELLOW | Torres | NC | Not correct, there was contact | 2 | |
| 69 | OFFSIDE | Chelsea | C | Just offside | 1 | |
| 71 | OTHER | Turner | Ramirez | C | Trip | 1 |
| 71 | YELLOW | Turner | NC | Came late, right on the ankle, yellow card should have been given | 2 | |
| 73 | OTHER | Meireles | Larsson | C | Trip | 1 |
| 73 | YELLOW | Meireles | C | correct but not consistent with the incident one minute earlier | 2 | |
| 76 | OTHER | Cattermole | Mereiles | C | Trip | 1 |
| 76 | OTHER | Sun? | Mata | C | Push but advantage given | 1 |
| 80 | OFFSIDE | Chelsea | NC | Not correct | 1 | |
| 90 | OTHER | Sun? | Torres | C | Holding but advantage given, shot saved | 1 |
A NC is a Not Correct decision and in the old model we had it also marked with a 0 (zero). A C is a Correct decision and previously marked with a 1. We left that column out but did leave the weight score in it so you can see how much weight the decision had.
In the table below you can see how he did in each half. And in the first table we can see if the ref was competent or not. By this we mean if the ref managed to get the decisions correct when we look at the laws of the game.
| COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Phil Dowd (2012-01-14) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | Called | Total | Correct % |
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100.00 |
| OTHER | 12 | 14 | 85.71 |
| YELLOW | 1 | 1 | 100.00 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 16 | 87.50 |
| WEIGHTED | 15 | 17 | 88.24 |
| Period 2 | Called | Total | Correct % |
| OFFSIDE | 1 | 2 | 50.00 |
| OTHER | 11 | 12 | 91.67 |
| PENALTY | 0 | 3 | 0.00 |
| YELLOW | 2 | 4 | 50.00 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 21 | 66.67 |
| WEIGHTED | 16 | 31 | 51.61 |
| Totals | Called | Total | Correct % |
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100.00 |
| OFFSIDE | 1 | 2 | 50.00 |
| OTHER | 23 | 26 | 88.46 |
| PENALTY | 0 | 3 | 0.00 |
| YELLOW | 3 | 5 | 60.00 |
| TOTAL | 28 | 37 | 75.68 |
| WEIGHTED | 31 | 48 | 64.58 |
And blimey what a difference a half makes. The first half was of high quality. The ref got most of the decisions correct. But in the second half he suddenly lost it. Making many mistakes. He refused to give a penalty and there was 3 penalties he should have given. Then the points drop a lot of course because a penalty is a high weighted decision. His yellow cards also were not according to how it had to be done. A bit inconsistent at times. Could it be that he was getting tired in the second half?
So his total foul calling over the full 90 minutes was still acceptable but if we look at the weight of his decisions it was below the Holy 70% marker.
But was there a team benefitting from the mistakes? Well we try to show you this in the next table. The Bias summary table. And again we can show you this for each period and for the whole game.
| BIAS SUMMARY – Phil Dowd (2012-01-14) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | Chelsea | % | Sunderland | % | Total |
| Correct For | 6 | 46.15 | 7 | 53.85 | 13 |
| Correct For Weighted | 8 | 50.00 | 8 | 50.00 | 16 |
| Incorrect Against | 1 | 50.00 | 1 | 50.00 | 2 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 1 | 50.00 | 1 | 50.00 | 2 |
| Fouls Commited | 6 | 50.00 | 6 | 50.00 | 12 |
| Fouls Penalised | 6 | 100.00 | 5 | 83.33 | 11 |
| Period 2 | Chelsea | % | Sunderland | % | Total |
| Correct For | 7 | 50.00 | 7 | 50.00 | 14 |
| Correct For Weighted | 8 | 50.00 | 8 | 50.00 | 16 |
| Incorrect Against | 6 | 85.71 | 1 | 14.29 | 7 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 12 | 80.00 | 3 | 20.00 | 15 |
| Fouls Commited | 7 | 43.75 | 9 | 56.25 | 16 |
| Fouls Penalised | 6 | 85.71 | 6 | 66.67 | 12 |
| Totals | Chelsea | % | Sunderland | % | Total |
| Correct For | 13 | 48.15 | 14 | 51.85 | 27 |
| Correct For Weighted | 16 | 50.00 | 16 | 50.00 | 32 |
| Incorrect Against | 7 | 77.78 | 2 | 22.22 | 9 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 13 | 76.47 | 4 | 23.53 | 17 |
| Fouls Commited | 13 | 46.43 | 15 | 53.57 | 28 |
| Fouls Penalised | 12 | 92.31 | 11 | 73.33 | 23 |
And so we can see that when it came to correct calls he was very fair for both teams during the whole game. But when it came to the wrong calls their was a very big difference. When he made a mistake it was almost always in favour of Sunderland. You can see that he made a total of 9 mistakes and all but two were against Chelsea. Chelsea who was the home team and this adds even more question marks to this number.
With last seasons games Sunderland-Arsenal, Newcastle-Arsenal and this game in mind I really wonder if I am seeing an obvious North-South bias in this ref? Anyway I will leave it up to you in the comment section to give your own opinion on the new model and on the ref.