Untold Ref Review: Everton 4 – 0 Sunderland. A game of biased calls. « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
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Today’s referee is Kevin Friend –
| MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Kevin Friend (2012-04-09) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | ||||||
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | Weight |
| 2 | OTHER | Stracqualursi | C | assumed correct handball | 1 | |
| 4 | OTHER | Stracqualursi | Vaughan | C | Trip | 1 |
| 5 | OTHER | Heitinga | Gardner | NC | Not given trip | 1 |
| 8 | OTHER | Cattermole | McFadden | C | push | 1 |
| 11 | OTHER | Heitinga | ? | NC | ref gave advantage but Sunderland lost the ball within seconds, this is not advantage ref | 1 |
| 11 | YELLOW | Heitinga | NC | Clearly going for the man should have been booked | 2 | |
| 12 | OFFSIDE | Everton | C | assumed correct | 1 | |
| 14 | OTHER | Stracqualursi | Turner | C | push | 1 |
| 15 | OTHER | Hibbert | Cattermole | NC | Frontal tackle, not given, studs showing | 1 |
| 15 | YELLOW | Hibbert | NC | The Sunderland player had to jump to avoid the contact, was dangerous | 2 | |
| 18 | OTHER | Cattermole | Pienaar | C | Late trip | 1 |
| 18 | YELLOW | Cattermole | C | Went for the man, came late, promising attack, correct card in itself but consistency ref? | 2 | |
| 20 | OTHER | McClean | Fellaini | C | Trip | 1 |
| 21 | OFFSIDE | Everton | C | correct | 1 | |
| 28 | OFFSIDE | Sunderland | C | correct | 1 | |
| 29 | OFFSIDE | Sunderland | C | assumed correct | 1 | |
| 31 | OTHER | McFadden | McClean | C | Trip | 1 |
| 32 | OTHER | Sessegnon | Fellaini | C | assumed correct | 1 |
| 44 | OTHER | McFadden | Kilgallon | C | Trip | 1 |
| Period 2 | ||||||
| Min | Type | Foul from | On | C/NC | Comment | Weight |
| 51 | OTHER | Pienaar | Colback | C | Knocked him agains the knee | 1 |
| 52 | GOAL | Everton | C | correct goal | 3 | |
| 53 | OTHER | Sessegnon | Heitinga | C | contact with the Achilles | 1 |
| 64 | OTHER | Gardner | Pienaar | C | came in with his arm | 1 |
| 69 | OTHER | Kilgallon | Stracqualursi | C | holding | 1 |
| 70 | OTHER | Sessegnon | Jagielka | C | Trip | 1 |
| 71 | OTHER | Turner | Pienaar | C | Trip | 1 |
| 74 | OTHER | Gardner | Pienaar | C | Push | 1 |
| 75 | GOAL | Everton | C | correct goal | 3 | |
| 76 | GOAL | Everton | C | correct goal | 3 | |
| 79 | OFFSIDE | Sunderland | C | correct decision | 1 | |
| 81 | GOAL | Everton | C | correct goal | 3 | |
| 83 | OTHER | Richardson | Anichebe | C | Trip | 1 |
| 83 | YELLOW | Richardson | C | promising attack | 2 | |
| 85 | OFFSIDE | Everton | C | assumed correct | 1 | |
| 88 | OTHER | Colback | Drenthe | C | trip | 1 |
| 88 | OTHER | C | ref allows a quick restart | 1 |
In some games you sometimes see a strange relation between a ref and a player. In this game Heitinga could do no wrong for the ref. And got away with a yellow card for his fouls early on. For the umpteenth time I would like to say that keeping possession is not the same as giving advantage. And certainly when there is nothing on or the team loses the ball within a second. Then you can and should go back to the foul. And give the yellow card that was needed. But for some strange reasons ref just give advantage when there is nothing on.
Another bad moment in the first half was a frontal tackle from Hibbert against Cattermole. The foul was not even given, let alone the yellow card. Yes Hibbert played the ball but if Cattermole would not have jumped up to save his legs, some accident could have happened. Poor moment for the ref. As a result a not that good first half score for the ref.
I don’t know what was said at half time but his second half was amazing. No wrong calls at all. So a big thumbs up for the ref in the second half. It can be done. Maybe the fact that this was a low profile game helped the ref? Maybe nobody to give any favours or try to stop a certain team in this game?
| COMPETENCY SUMMARY – Kevin Friend (2012-04-09) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | Called | Total | Correct % |
| OFFSIDE | 4 | 4 | 100.00 |
| OTHER | 9 | 12 | 75.00 |
| YELLOW | 1 | 3 | 33.33 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 19 | 73.68 |
| WEIGHTED | 15 | 21 | 71.43 |
| Period 2 | Called | Total | Correct % |
| GOAL | 4 | 4 | 100.00 |
| OFFSIDE | 2 | 2 | 100.00 |
| OTHER | 10 | 10 | 100.00 |
| YELLOW | 1 | 1 | 100.00 |
| TOTAL | 17 | 17 | 100.00 |
| WEIGHTED | 26 | 26 | 100.00 |
| Totals | Called | Total | Correct % |
| GOAL | 4 | 4 | 100.00 |
| OFFSIDE | 6 | 6 | 100.00 |
| OTHER | 19 | 22 | 86.36 |
| YELLOW | 2 | 4 | 50.00 |
| TOTAL | 31 | 36 | 86.11 |
| WEIGHTED | 41 | 47 | 87.23 |
So a high overall score for the ref but in the important decisions he paid for not handing out the needed yellow cards in the first half. I can imagine that one hour after the game nobody knew the name of the ref. And this is one of the biggest compliments one can give to a ref.
| BIAS SUMMARY – Kevin Friend (2012-04-09) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | Everton | % | Sunderland | % | Total |
| Correct For | 7 | 50.00 | 7 | 50.00 | 14 |
| Correct For Weighted | 8 | 53.33 | 7 | 46.67 | 15 |
| Incorrect Against | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 100.00 | 5 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 0 | 0.00 | 7 | 100.00 | 7 |
| Fouls Commited | 10 | 62.50 | 6 | 37.50 | 16 |
| Fouls Penalised | 7 | 70.00 | 6 | 100.00 | 13 |
| Period 2 | Everton | % | Sunderland | % | Total |
| Correct For | 15 | 88.24 | 2 | 11.76 | 17 |
| Correct For Weighted | 24 | 92.31 | 2 | 7.69 | 26 |
| Incorrect Against | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
| Fouls Commited | 2 | 18.18 | 9 | 81.82 | 11 |
| Fouls Penalised | 2 | 100.00 | 9 | 100.00 | 11 |
| Totals | Everton | % | Sunderland | % | Total |
| Correct For | 22 | 70.97 | 9 | 29.03 | 31 |
| Correct For Weighted | 32 | 78.05 | 9 | 21.95 | 41 |
| Incorrect Against | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 100.00 | 5 |
| Incorrect Against Weighted | 0 | 0.00 | 7 | 100.00 | 7 |
| Fouls Commited | 12 | 44.44 | 15 | 55.56 | 27 |
| Fouls Penalised | 9 | 75.00 | 15 | 100.00 | 24 |
In the bias index it was amazing that all the wrong calls favoured Everton in this game. But they didn’t help Everton in the first half at all it seemed. And in the second half when he made no mistakes Everton started scoring.
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