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RefWatch – Stoke City v Arsenal (08/05/2011 14:05)
By DogFace
- Referee: Mark Halsey
- Assistant 1: Ceri Richards
- Assistant 2: Glenn Turner
- 4th Official: Michael Oliver
Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch.
Let’s have a look at Referee:
- Full name: Mark R Halsey
- Date of birth: 8 July 1961 (1961-07-08) (age 49)
- Place of birth: Welwyn Garden City, England
- EPL Referee Since: 2000/2001
- EPL Games to date: 224
Now THIS is how you interfere with play Foy!
This could well be Mark’s last game for Arsenal; it could even be the last game he has before he retires – so let’s hope he has a good one! Although – saying that this game is being played at 21:05 Singapore time and 22:05 Manila time so anything could happen… although saying that this match is really the sideshow to the big crunch spectacular match between Manchester United and Chelsea (with Howard Webb) in which a draw would probably suit the Mancs and a bit of hollow controversy in Chelsea’s favour for MOTD to point out and rub in the eye of any tin foil hat wearing bias ‘conspiracy theorists’ would suit Webb quite nicely too.
In other news, in this EPL weekend – Liverpool has got Lee Mason on Monday and Tottenham have Mike Dean on Tuesday – The Predictortron emitted a synthesised snigger at those appointments!
But I digress – on to the stats:
Mark Halsey has had 3 games for Stoke City consisting of 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss
Stoke City are currently in 6th in Mark Halsey’s personal Points Per Game League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, with an average of 2.00 PPG.
In Mark Halsey’s personal Handicap Swing League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, Stoke City come 4th with an average positive swing of 0.67.
Stoke City are currently in 12th in Mark Halsey’s personal Booking’s Per Match League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, with an overall average of 1.00 BPM.
In Mark Halsey’s personal Fouls Per Booking League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, Stoke City come 4th with an overall average of 14.33 FPB.
So Mark has been pretty decent for Stoke and he has, in consecutive seasons, let them get away with huge differential between the fouls per bookings of them and their opponents… or this could mean that he awards a lot of fouls against them – although the PPG and AHS figures suggest that Stoke do ok with his Style of officiating.
Mark Halsey has had 19 games for Arsenal consisting of 12 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses
Arsenal are currently in 4th in Mark Halsey’s personal Points Per Game League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, with an average of 2.16 PPG.
In Mark Halsey’s personal Handicap Swing League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, Arsenal come 1st with an average positive swing of 1.21.
Arsenal are currently in 17th in Mark Halsey’s personal Booking’s Per Match League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, with an overall average of 1.16 BPM.
In Mark Halsey’s personal Fouls Per Booking League (for teams with a minimum of 2 matches played), for matches in the English Premier, Arsenal come 20th with an overall average of 9.82 FPB.
On the whole, Mark hasn’t been bad for us either – over the last 4 seasons we’ve won 4 and drawn 1 – and some of those wins have smashed the handicap. It’s interesting to note the parity between the FPB figures, in recent seasons, between Arsenal and their opponents and I will be intrigued to see how this plays out with Stoke given his rather generous FPB record for them.
As you can see, Arsenal have really blown the roof off the handicap under Halsey in recent seasons – but we have not had many games. I do worry about Mark’s fitness and his ability to keep up with the play – he may choose to rely on the 4th official [Michael Oliver] more than he should… and we have a piss poor record under him. Stoke do pretty well, as you can see – better than the rest of the big 6 baring Manchester United who he hasn’t refereed a match for in the 2 seasons since his illness.
I think this is a solid 3 pointer and The Predictortron reckons we have a 2.2 goal advantage.
Come on you Reds (but not so much you red devils).