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By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref goes on his way
As I am always looking to go further and further I continue my experiment and hope that it works out a bit and still is readable at the end of the day.
So here is a new lay out (again) that I used for my ref review. The first ref to have the honour of dealing with this report was ref Friend who did the game Leyton Orient (LO from here on) against Arsenal in the FA cup.
I think it all explains itself a bit until we come to the end totals. So if you are interested I will explain the totals under this table.
| Nr. | Min | Type | Decision | correct | points | weight | on |
| 1 | 3 | OTHER | Offside against LO | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 3 | OTHER | Foul against Bendtner | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 8 | OTHER | Foul on Miquel in his own penalty area | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 12 | OTHER | Offside against LO | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 17 | OTHER | Offside against LO | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 19 | OTHER | Foul from Denilson | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 22 | OTHER | Foul from Song | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 25 | OTHER | Foul on song – First real bit robust challenge | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | 28 | OTHER | Foul on Rosicky – ref has a quick word with Whing | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 29 | OTHER | Foul from Rosicky | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 32 | OTHER | Foul on Sagna ref gives no foul | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 32 | OTHER | corner given to LO | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | 45 | OTHER | 1 minute extra time – Half time | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 49 | OTHER | Foul on Denilson. Revell comes sliding in with two feet | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 49 | CARD | Revell came in with two feet over the ground, should have been a yellow card | NC | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | 53 | GOAL | Goal from Rosicky nothing wrong with that | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | 54 | OTHER | Offside against LO – Almunia catches the ball advantage given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | 55 | OTHER | Handball from LO not given | NC | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | 60 | OTHER | Denilson comes in late foul given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 60 | CARD | Denilson gets a card and this is correct | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | 66 | OTHER | Tackle from behind on Chamakh no foul given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | 66 | CARD | Whing the LO threw himself in the tackle from behind and went through the player should have been a card | NC | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 23 | 72 | OTHER | Foul on Denilson not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | 72 | OTHER | Denilson then makes a foul | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | 73 | OTHER | Foul on Denilson given it was more a foul from Denilson – high foot | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | 76 | OTHER | Foul on Chamakh not given | NC | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | 77 | OTHER | Offside against LO | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | 78 | OTHER | Foul on Denilson | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | 79 | OTHER | Foul on chamakh given | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 79 | CARD | Again Whing comes in from behind on Chamakh and now gets a deserved yellow card | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 31 | 79 | CARD | This should have been Whing his second yellow card | NC | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 32 | 81 | PENALTY | LO claim a penalty because the ball struck Squillaci. It was right in his face so correct from the ref to give nothing. | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 33 | 87 | OTHER | Foul from Song | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | 88 | GOAL | Nothing wrong with the goal | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 35 | 89 | OTHER | Foul on Denilson | C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 36 | 94 | OTHER | 4 minutes of extra time | c | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TOTAL (1) | 27 | 35 | 47 | ||||
| % (2) | 75,00% | 71,43% | |||||
| CARDS | 3 | 5 | 60,00% | ||||
| PENALTY | 1 | 1 | 100,00% | ||||
| GOAL | 2 | 2 | 100,00% | ||||
| OTHER | 3 | 4 | 75,00% | ||||
| TOTAL | 9 | 12 | 75,00% |
The totals in bold at the bottom are the ones that you have been used from me during the season so far. They only include the decisions that I would have mentioned in my reviews earlier on in the season. The important decisions one could say.
And this is a rather good score from the ref. I think he had a very decent game. I just wasn’t happy with the way he let some tackles from behind pass without punishing them and even without giving a card. Now the game itself was played in a good spirit but still when it comes to tackling from behind and certainly when it is tackles who are going through the striker the line should be drawn more strict.
You will also have noticed that I made a total (1) and that the ref made 27 correct decisions out of a possible 36. And this gives him the same score compared to this score on the important decisions. After the line with % you get his percentage. I don’t think this really is a surprise.
And then in the next column you can find the weighted score from the ref. Based on my scoring table you can find below. So if you weight the decisions the score goes down a bit to 71,43%. This is because I think that the LO player Whing was a bit lucky to have been on the pitch at the final whistle. He walked on a thin line a few times. He could/should have got 3 yellow cards in the game but only got one. And this brought his score down.
But as been noticed before: the refs score better in the cup games than in the league games. Something to think about.
Weighted score card:
- Yellow card not correct 0/2
- Yellow card doubtful 1/2
- Yellow card correct 2/2
- Red card not correct 0/3
- Red card correct 3/3
- Goal not correct 0/3
- Goal correct 3/3
- Penalty not correct 0/3
- Penalty correct 3/3