The Untold ref review : Arsenal – Aston Villa « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref with a new plaything
It has been a bit longer this time before you could read my ref review. The fact that I went to London and the fact that the game was not on my sports channel live forced me in to extra time. And then the fact I had slept a bit longer after the long trip, a daughter to get from school, having to visit someone in hospital, and you know the things in live that keeps you away from the things you really want to do.
But for the fans the wait will be worth it, well I hope. Because for the first time you will see what you should be seeing from next season on. The grand première of the Untold ref review version 1.12 soon to be known and sold as the Untold Ref Review 2.
So what can you expect from now on? The ref sliced in two. Well not his body but his game will be viewed in two halves. And yes it will be a first half and a second half.
And if you think this will be all there is no, I even will calculate the full time score of the ref also. And also a full automatic count in numbers and percentages of the wrong calls and who has benefited most of those calls. And also the offside count will be given.
The reasons for some of those changes has been said before but I will not bother you with them now but give you the result of the first ref to be sliced in two in our ref review here at Untold Arsenal our dear friend Mr. Oliver.
| Min | Type | Decision | C/NC | points | weight | on | |
| 1 | OTHER | Young holds off Sagna with his arm no foul given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8 | OTHER | Foul on Song given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | OTHER | Foul from Wilshere given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 11 | GOAL | Nothing against the rules with the first goal. Bent was onside | C | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| 14 | OTHER | Foul on Ramsey given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 15 | OTHER | Foul from Van Persie given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 15 | GOAL | Again Bent was onside so again nothing wrong with this goal | C | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| 18 | OFFSIDE | Was it a backpass or was it Walcott who played the bal forward? I could not see it on the images so I have to go with the linesman | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 | OFFSIDE | Offside from AV given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 20 | OTHER | Foul on Song given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 24 | OTHER | Late tackle on Wilshere from Reo Coker. The ref plays advantage? But surely on our own half what advantage was there? | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25 | CARD | When the ball is out of play the ref gives a yellow card. | C | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 28 | OTHER | Foul on Song not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29 | OTHER | Foul on Vermaelen off the ball not given but the ref signals advantage | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 29 | CARD | A card would have been on the cards for a deliberate foul with no ball in sight | NC | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 30 | PENALTY | Ramsey is alone in front of goal. Dunne comes in and blocks the shooting leg of Ramsey. Dunne makes no contact with the ball just catches the leg of Ramsey. A stonewall penalty and the ref gives nothing | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 30 | CARD | As Dunne was the last defender he should have been given a red card. It was a clear goal scoring opportunity | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 30 | OTHER | Foul given against Wilshere | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 31 | OTHER | Foul given against Song. Song kicks the ball. If this is given a foul then wat about the penalty seconds earlier? | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33 | OTHER | Van Persie goes past Dunne at the edge of the penalty area and gets us push. The foul was outside so not a penalty but surely this was a foul ref | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34 | OTHER | A late tackele form Petrof on Wilshere on the half way line. Ref gives advantage.Keeping possession is not the same as having advantage | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 35 | CARD | When the ball is out of play the ref gives a yellow card. | C | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 40 | OTHER | Foul given against Gibbs | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 44 | OFFSIDE | Offside from AV given | c | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 45 | OTHER | Foul given against Van Persie?? It was Dunn who came in from behind and cought Van Persie and then Dunn went down because of his own contact. The ref didn’t want an Arsenal goal was the impression | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Half Time score | 15 | 21 | 36 | ||||
| 60,00% | 58,33% | ||||||
| CARDS | 2 | 4 | 50,00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 0 | 4 | 0,00 | ||||
| Total | 4 | 11 | 36,36 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | ||||
| 49 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 53 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 54 | OTHER | Foul from Vermaelen not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | + |
| 55 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 59 | OTHER | Foul from Arsenal not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | + |
| 64 | OTHER | Foul from Dunne on Chamakh | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 64 | CARD | Dunne gets booked for his tackle from behind which is correct | C | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 65 | OTHER | Late tackle on Wilshere given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 66 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Arsenal | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 70 | OTHER | Foul on Song. Petrov goes through the legs of Song | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 70 | CARD | This should have been a yellow card for Petrov and his second and so he should have got a red | NC | 0 | 3 | 3 | – |
| 72 | OTHER | A Villa throw goes out directly. The assistant signals an Arsenal throw but the ref goes back to the first throw saying the ball did not cross the line? Well then the assistant gave the wrong signal | NC | 0 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 76 | GOAL | An Arsenal goal is disallowd. The ref signals a push from Chamakh.There was contact but was this really a push? Well what can you say? He would grab everythin to cancel anything from Arsenal | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 81 | OTHER | If the ref wants to be strict about the use of the arms he surely must blow a foul in favour for Walcott as the Villa player uses his arm to block him off. He suddenly doesn’t mind the use of the arms anymore | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 82 | OTHER | Foul on Song given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 83 | OTHER | Foul on Song given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 84 | OTHER | The assistant signals a foul from Walcott. No replay to suggest otherwise but I have my doubt that Walcott really touched him. | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 89 | OFFSIDE | Offside against Villa | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 90 | GOAL | Nothing against the rules with the Arsenal goal | C | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| 90 | CARD | Young gets a yellow car for time wasting | C | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 91 | OTHER | Foul against Villa | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 92 | OTHER | Foul from Dunne on Van Persie | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 92 | CARD | Dunne prottest loudly and openly lets his disaproval seen without getting card | NC | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 76 | CARD | Bendtner got a card for protesting with the disallowd goal | C | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| TOTAL | 17 | 26 | 34 | ||||
| % | 70,83% | 76,47% | |||||
| 2nd Half score | |||||||
| CARDS | 3 | 5 | 60,00 | ||||
| PENALTY | 0 | 0 | 0,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 1 | 3 | 33,33 | ||||
| Total | 5 | 9 | 55,56 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 5 | 5 | 100,00 | ||||
| FINAL SCORE REF | |||||||
| TOTAL | 32 | 47 | 70 | ||||
| % | 65,31% | 67,14% | |||||
| CARDS | 5 | 9 | 55,56 | ||||
| PENALTY | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | ||||
| GOAL | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | ||||
| OTHER | 1 | 7 | 14,29 | ||||
| Total | 9 | 20 | 45,00 | ||||
| OFFSIDE | 8 | 8 | 100,00 | ||||
| Wrong calls | Against Arsenal | 14 | 87,50% | ||||
| Against Aston Villa | 2 | 12,50% | |||||
| Total | 16 |
So that is it. I hope you like the new format a bit. I really cannot come up with something more complete for the moment. I think. Unless you can think of something. Just shout and I will see what I can do.
But now what did I think of ref Oliver? I think he likes Manchester City. As you can see he had a reasonable, but still too low, score on the overall decisions.
But when you look at the important decisions he cost us the game. There is no denying this. The blatant not giving penalty on Ramsey and the red card for Dunne was a very very bad non decision. Getting one back and then their best defender being off the field would have changed the game completely.
The disallowed goal was another decision that you rarely see given in the EPL. Now if every contact from a striker on a defender would be disallowed in the same way I have no complaints. But we all know that this isn’t the case. So why did he then made this decision? Well I guess for the same reason he gave a foul against Van Persie at the end of the first half when he turned Dunne and was heading for a clear goal scoring chance: prevent an Arsenal goal as long as possible.
To give credit to the ref: he did not tolerate dangerous tackles from Aston Villa and the late tackles were mostly punished with a correct yellow card. He however didn’t send Petrov off with a second yellow card and of course Dunne also should have left the field after half an hour.
I rated this ref high after our 2-3 defeat against WBA this season. I had no complaints about him in that game and it still is the second highest score a ref has got this season. But why didn’t he give the penalty will be something that only he can answer I think. Or maybe we could find the answer in the ref preview article? Was he having a blue Sunday?