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The Untold ref review: Chelsea – WBA
By Ref Reviewer 04
Next in our ref reviews was the game at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and WBA. Ref in charge was Mason.
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | points | weight | on |
| 3 | OTHER | WBA? | Torres | NC | Trip not given | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | OTHER | Torres | Scharner | NC | Should have given the first foul on Torres | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | OFFSIDE | Long | C | WBA offside | ||||
| 4 | GOAL | Long | C | Correct goal | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| 6 | OTHER | Mikel | WBA? | C/NC | Push | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | OTHER | Tamas | Kalou | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | YELLOW | Tamas | C | Breaking up a counter attack | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 8 | OTHER | WBA? | Lampard | C | Advantage given | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | OTHER | Anelka | Mulumbu | C | Advantage given | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 0FFSIDE | Long | C | WBA offside | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | OFFSIDE | Long | C | WBA offside | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 | OTHER | Ramires | Tchoiy | NC | Was a trip but not given | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | OTHER | Corner given | NC | Not correct as Tchoiy was the last player to touch the ball | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 22 | OTHER | Mikel | Mulumbu | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | OTHER | Torres | Scharner | C | Ref indicated a pull was not visible on tv | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | OTHER | Ramires | Mulumbu | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | OTHER | Lampard | Long | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | YELLOW | Lampard | C | Wild tackle correct booking | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 36 | OTHER | Mikel | Scharner | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 38 | OTHER | Malouda | Tamas | C | Holding | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 42 | OTHER | Tchoiy | Alex | C | Push | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 44 | PENALTY | Foster | Anelka | C | Anelka came in from behind nicked the ball away from Foster and then went over Foster. I had the impression that Foster touched the ball just before Anelka came crushing in and fell over Foster. No deliberate foul possible from the keeper as he couldn’t see Anelka coming | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 45 | OTHER | Mulumbu | Torres | C | Tackle from behind | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | YELLOW | Mulumba | C | Tackle from behind card correct | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Half time | 19 | 26 | 30 | |||||
| CORRECT | 79,17% | 86,67% | ||||||
| YELLOW | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | |||||
| RED | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | |||||
| GOAL | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | |||||
| OTHER | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | |||||
| 8 | 8 | 100,00 | ||||||
| OFFSIDE | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | |||||
| Second half | ||||||||
| 46 | OTHER | Alex | Morisson | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 47 | OTHER | Scharner | Alex | C | The ref blew when the kick was just taken. I had the feeling he had been waiting to call this. As we got no replay I cannot but agree with his call | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 48 | OTHER | Mulumba | Malouda | NC | Push in the back nothing given | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 48 | OTHER | Malouda | Mulumba | NC | Maloudan then punished but the ref should have given the first foul | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 50 | OTHER | Tchoiy | Mikel | NC | Tchoiy just used his body to keep Mikel away who went to the ground. Ref stops play as the WBA player wants to shoot at the goal from 6 yard out. Never ever would he give a penalty for “a foul” the other way round. Not correct and takes away a big chance for the 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 53 | GOAL | Anelka | C | A little deflection on the shot but this is not against the rules | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| 58 | OTHER | Tchoiy | Bosingwa | C | Push on the shoulder with the hand. But Bosingwa pretented to be hit in the face. Nice play acting | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 60 | YELLOW | Olsson | C | Don’t know why the card was given so we have to agree with the ruling on the field. Whatever it might have been | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 63 | OTHER | Long | Mikel | C | Pull | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 | OFFSIDE | Tchoiy | C | offside WBA | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 70 | OTHER | Ramires | WBA | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 74 | OTHER | Tamas | Ramires | C | Advantage given | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 74 | OFFSIDE | Tchoiy | C | offside WBA | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 75 | PENALTY | Scharner | Malouda | C | The ref was running a few yards behind Malouda so had an excellent view and gave the negative signal. Wonder if it was a dive and then a card should have been given. Replay showed Scharner touched the ball | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 80 | OTHER | Bosingwa | Mulumba | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 82 | OTHER | Ivanovic | Long | NC | Trip | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 82 | OFFSIDE | Drogba | NC | Not given? The ball was played in his direction and no other Chelsea player in sight? Now ther pressure stayed on the WBA defence | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 82 | GOAL | Malouda | C | The only thing is what would have happened if the officials had stopped the game for offside? But with the goal itself was nothing wrong | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| 87 | OTHER | Ramires | C | Handball | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 89 | RED | Terry | Odimwingie | NC | Terry runs at Odimwingie and grabs him by the shirt in an agressive way. Seconds before Terry had made a sliding tackle and Odimwingie had to jump up to avoid Terry but when coming down he landed with one foot on Terry. There was no intention visible. But Terry ran after him and attacked him in a bit of a Barton-way. | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 90 | OTHER | Cole | Odimwingie | NC | Cole kicks the ball away in an agressive way and clamps his legs around Odimwingie. The ref gives a foul against Odimwingie? Unblievable. | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 90 | YELLOW | Odimwingie | NC | This is getting ridicuclous now. Odimwingie gets a yellow card for well er.. Trying to stay alive I guess. | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 90 | YELLOW | Cole | NC | Cole should have gotten a yellow card for his dangerous lounge wher he clamped his legs around Odimwingie | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 93 | OTHER | Mikel | Odimwingie | C | Serial fouling on Odimwingie? | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 93 | OTHER | Olson | Hilario | C | Foul on the keeper | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 94 | OTHER | Lampard | Olson | C | Trip | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2nd half score | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 17 | 23 | 37 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 65,38% | 62,16% | |||||
| YELLOW | 1 | 3 | 33,33 | |||||
| RED | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | |||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00 | |||||
| GOAL | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | |||||
| OTHER | 1 | 4 | 25,00 | |||||
| 5 | 11 | 45,45 | ||||||
| OFFSIDE | 2 | 3 | 66,67 | |||||
| TOTAL SCORE | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 36 | 49 | 67 | |||||
| % | CORRECT | 72,00% | 73,13% | |||||
| YELLOW | 4 | 6 | 66,67 | |||||
| RED | 0 | 1 | 0,00 | |||||
| PENALTY | 2 | 2 | 100,00 | |||||
| GOAL | 3 | 3 | 100,00 | |||||
| OTHER | 4 | 7 | 57,14 | |||||
| 13 | 19 | 68,42 | ||||||
| OFFSIDE | 5 | 6 | 83,33 | |||||
| Correct calls | For WBA | 18 | 50,00% | |||||
| For Chelsea | 18 | 50,00% | ||||||
| Total correct calls | 36 | |||||||
| Wrong calls | Against WBA | 12 | 80,00% | |||||
| Against Chelsea | 3 | 20,00% | ||||||
| Total | 15 |
An excellent game from the ref in the First half. In the second half he had a very mixed game. Some great decisions but also decisions that made you wonder.
At the end of the game he looked to be a bit on the Chelsea side of things going on in the field. 6 wrong decisions in the last 10 minutes and all in favour of Chelsea. This all was a bit too much for my liking.
Another important event was Terry and Cole in the last minute who had a go at Odimwingie after that Odimwingie had stepped on Terry his leg. It looked pure accidental because Odimwingie had to jump up to avoid the sliding Terry but Terry attacked him in an aggressive way. But the oldest of the Untold refs had already said that he would tackle this in a separate article.
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