The Untold ref review: Bolton – Arsenal « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref who is fed up with refs in the EPL by now
The person executing the orders of whoever is doing the calls was Mike Jones. (Oh if you wonder: I wrote this line after I found out what he has done and after the review).
| Min | Type | Decision | correct | points | weight | on |
| 2 | OTHER | Foul on Nasri who is being held not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | OTHER | Foul from Muamba on song | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | PENALTY | Foul on Walcott. The assistant gives a corner. The ref gives no foul. The defender clearly didn’t touch the ball, he tackled Walcott from behind. A stone wall penalty | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | OTHER | Foul on Wilshere not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | OTHER | Foul from Koscielny not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | OTHER | Foul from Djourou given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | OTHER | Foul from Muamba on Wilshere | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | CARD | A late tackle it was and also without any chance of playing the ball. Wilshere was starting a promising move so all the ingredienst to give a card | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | OTHER | Strong and late tackle on Song | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | CARD | This was again late and reckless but no card shown this time? Totally wrong ref. | NC | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | OTHER | Foul from Song not given advantage given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Bolton given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | OTHER | Foul against Nasri not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | OTHER | Foul given against Wilshere who does nothing? | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | OTHER | Foul from Djourou not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | OTHER | Foul from Koscielny on Sturridige not given but the ref gives the throw to Bolton which is also wrong as it came of Sturridge heel to go out | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | OTHER | Dangerous tackle from Taylor. And outstretched leg well off the floor | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | CARD | A yellow card is given. Dangerous, dangerous | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 22 | OTHER | High foot against Clichy not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | OTHER | Foul on Cesc not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | OTHER | Foul from Song given? He just took control of the ball because Sturridge turned the wrong way | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | OTHER | Foul from Koscielny who pushed the defender at a corner for Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 33 | OTHER | Foul from Song given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Sturridge | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 38 | GOAL | Nothing wrong with the goal. Unless I want to be a bit biased and ask why the ref didn’t punish the push/holding on Koscielny by Davies? | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 45 | OTHER | Foul from Koscielny not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 45 | OTHER | Flying tackle from behind from Muamba on Cesc | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | CARD | Such a tackle should be punished with a yellow card. It would have been his second. It should have been his second and a red card. | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 46 | PENALTY | Sturridge dives when he is in fron of Djourou and the refs gets fooled by this dive. There was a foul from Djourou outside the box but not inside the penalty area. Wrong from the ref. When Szczesny saved our match reporter said: justice has been done! | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 46 | CARD | For a dive you must give a yellow card. Sturridge escapes a yellow card | NC | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 48 | GOAL | Nothing wrong the Arsenal goal | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | OTHER | Foul on Wilshere not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 53 | OTHER | Foul from Song | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 53 | CARD | Song gets a yellow card and it is correct | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 56 | OTHER | Foul on Nasri given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 57 | OTHER | Foul from Sturridge on Wilshere given. He held him for a moment. Correct | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 57 | CARD | Sturridge , the cheating diver is furious and shows this in an open way. So much that the ref calls Davies to calm him down? WTF ref, if you want to show you are the boss on the field you just show the yellow card. So with a good ref who had seen the dive it would have been his second yellow card | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 58 | OTHER | Foul on Davies advantage given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 58 | OTHER | Foul on Nasri not given. This was a scissor tackel ref. It doesn’t matter if he got the ball at the end. It is a foul | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 60 | OTHER | Foul not given against Djourou. Elmander made a nice dive. The ref didn’t get fooled this time | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 60 | OTHER | Foul from Djourou | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 63 | OTHER | Foul on Clichy given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 63 | OTHER | Foul from Wilshere | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 63 | CARD | Card given and I can understand this but this was not as bad as the Davies tackle on Song which wasn’t punished with a card | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 66 | OTHER | Foul on Nasri given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 66 | PENALTY | Koscielny is being held when a corner is taken and is brought down. The ball lands in the area where Koscielny was trying to get. The ref gives nothing. This should have been another penalty. Remember how quick the ref was to blow a little push from Kosielny in the first half. | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 69 | OTHER | Foul on Chamakh not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 70 | OTHER | Foul from Wilshere given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 74 | OTHER | Foul given against Arshavin. Wrong it was Arshavin who tripped the Bolton player | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 76 | OTHER | Foul given against Djourou for holding Sturridge. Not every holding is the same for this ref | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 78 | OTHER | Foul given against Arsenal. Don’t know why because of the replays shown. | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 79 | OTHER | Chamakh slips and hits Robinson. The ref gives no foul let play continue and then after seconds he changes his mind. He even didn’t give the advantage signal. So he did see nothing wrong. But then he gives the foul? Why? But itself the decision is correct | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 79 | CARD | He also gives a yellow card against Chamakh. A bit hars as Chamakh was slipping after a challenge from another Bolton player | NC | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 88 | OTHER | Foul on Van Persie given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 88 | OTHER | Davies comes in wild again and the ref gives the foul | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 88 | CARD | Finally Davies gets his yellow card. | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 88 | CARD | It should have been Davies his second yellow card. | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 89 | GOAL | Nothing against the rules with the goal | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 89 | CARD | Cohen pull his shirt out and gets a card | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 90 | OTHER | Foul on Cesc given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 94 | OTHER | Foul from Clichy given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 94 | OTHER | Foul on chamakh given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 35 | 50 | 89 | |||
| % | 55,56% | 56,18% | ||||
| CARDS | 4 | 12 | 33,33 | |||
| PENALTY | 0 | 3 | 0,00 | |||
| GOAL | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | |||
| OTHER | 8 | 9 | 88,89 | |||
| OFFSIDE | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | |||
| 15 | 27 | 55,56 | ||||
| Wrong calls | Arsenal | 19 | 80% | |||
| Bolton | 5 | 20% |
The final score of the ref doesn’t lie. His score overall, on the major decisions and the weighted score all are below par. Very low. Another poor performance of a ref that has done a reasonable job until this game. I really don’t know what to say any more. I cannot find any logical explanation. Maybe that Mike Riley from the PGMOL will be happy. His refs have done the job once again. SAF will be happy as he now can hope for a team that is demoralized after this defeat helped by once again the refs.
The amount of dangerous tackles allowed by Bolton was funny for those who like to see violence on a football field. Davies and Muamba got away with two yellow cards each as the ref was very friendly for their fouls.
Again two penalties not given for Arsenal. And again a non penalty given against us. We now are leading the table in penalties given against us. And if you think about some penalties (Newcastle, Liverpool, Bolton) then this is really getting a bit ridiculous. On the other hand we don’t get penalties that easy from the refs. Today again two that should have been given. But nothing was given.
Is it any coincidence that in this important week we had so many (penalty decisions going against us?? You better, you better, you bet…..
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