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By Ref Reviewer 04

We had Ref Dowd to do the game ManchesterCity– Arsenal. Did he continued his fine form of this season?

Min	Type	Foul from	On	C/NC	Comment	points	weight
2	OTHER			NC	Throw to Arsenal given to City by the ref	0	0
5	OTHER	Toure	RVP	NC	Climbs on his back, advantage signaled because Arsenal keep possession. Possesion is not the same as advantage	0	0
6	OTHER	Arteta	Balotelli	C	Trip, ref tells Arteta not to react even though the reaction itself was not really aimed at the ref	1	1
9	OTHER	Song	Silva	C	Advantage played after Song bumps in the back of Silva	1	1
10	YELLOW	Song		NC	He was a bit late but he didn’t kick just put his body against the City player. Very soft	0	0
13	OTHER	Song	Yaya	C	Advantage given after Song fouls the striker. City ask a second yellow card but even for Dowd this is a bridge too far. He didn’t book Barry who came to ask a card though.	1	1
17	OTHER	Aguero		C	Handball	1	1
18	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		NC	not given by assistant. Walcott lifted his foot to let the ball pass so was interfering	0	0
20	OTHER	Ramsey	Yaya	C	I wondered who was holding who but as no replays where shown I cannot but agree with the ruling on the field	1	1
23	OTHER	Nasri	Arteta	NC	High foot not given	0	0
24	OTHER	YAYA	Arteta	C	Trip	1	1
26	OTHER	Nasri	Gervinho	C	Holding, pushing, trip finally the ref blows. Ref has nothing against the reaction from Nasri this time	1	1
28	OTHER	RVP		C	Handball	1	1
32	OTHER	Kompany	RVP	C	Push in the back advantage given	1	1
34	OTHER	Ramsey	Yaya	C	Again not sure so have to stick with the decision but it looked that Yaya held his arm to block Ramsey first	1	1
34	OTHER	YAYA	Ramsey	C		1	1
38	OTHER	Barry	Arteta	C	Sliding tackle from behind	1	1
38	YELLOW	Barry		C	Clamped his legs around the legs of Arteta coming in from behind	1	2
43	OTHER	Zabaleta	RVP	NC	Got the ball with one foot, got RVP with the other, nothing given. Blasphemy as RVP refused the hand of Dowd who wants to help him on his feet. A booking any minute now?	0	0
43	YELLOW	Zabaleta		NC	Tackle from behind on the ankle should be a yellow	0	0
43	OTHER	Toure	Gervinho	C	assistant signals the foul from behind	1	1
44	OTHER	Koscielny	Aguero	C	Trip with the arm	1	1
44	YELLOW	Koscielny		C	There was a possible break on so it could be justified	1	2
47	OTHER	YAYA	Ramsey	C	High foot and again Dowd doesn’t react to the arm waiving City player	1	1
	Half time					17	19
			CORRECT		73,91%	67,86%
	YELLOW				2	4	50,00
	RED				0	0
	PENALTY			0	0
	GOAL				0	0
	OTHER				3	4	75,00
	Total				5	8	62,50
	OFFSIDE				0	1	0,00
	Second half
46	OTHER	Richards	Gervinho	NC	Trip	0	0
46	OTHER	Barry	Song	C	First the ref wants to play advantage but then comes back to the foul	1	1
46	YELLOW	Barry		NC	Stretched leg, studs showing, frontal tackle, caught him on the ankle. What do you want more for a yellow card?	0	0
46	RED	Barry		NC	Would have been his second yellow card	0	0
51	OFFSIDE	MC		C		1	1
52	OTHER	Koscielny	Balotelli	NC	Holding not given	0	0
53	GOAL	MC		C	Despite the fact that Silva looked offside when the first shot came in, he only became active when Aguero headed the ball and then he was on side. So a valid goal	1	3
55	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		C	No replay given so assumd correct	1	1
56	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		NC	RVP was onside	0	0
56	GOAL	Arsenal		NC	The goal is cancelled but the replay on MOTD clearly showed RVP was on side when the ball was played to him	0	0
57	OTHER	Aguero	Mertesacker	C	Trip	1	1
58	OTHER	Koscielny	Aguero	NC	Didn’t see much wrong	0	0
60	OFFSIDE	MC		C	No replay given so assumed correct	1	1
65	OTHER	Miquel	Silva	C	Trip	1	1
67	OFFSIDE	Arsenal		NC	Again the assistant has it wrong	0	0
67	OTHER			NC	Should have been a corner to Arsenal	0	0
69	OTHER	Yaya	Ramsey	C	Trip	1	1
69	OTHER	Barry	Arteta	C	Trip	1	1
72	OTHER	Aguero	Vermaelen	C	Came in late	1	1
72	YELLOW	Aguero		C	He came in with his foot and hit the defender on his ankle	1	2
74	OTHER	Arteta	Yaya	C	Held him	1	1
74	YELLOW	Arteta		NC	If he would have done the same in the first half with Yaya Toure who made the same gesture it would be fine. But now inconsistency rules	0	0
74	OTHER	Arteta	Barry	C	Trip	1	1
77	PENALTY	Richards		NC	Handball, the ball flies some 20 meters in the air from the cross and Richards stops the ball with his arm. He should have taken his arm out of the way	0	0
78	OTHER	Barry	RVP	NC	climbs all over him, nothing given	0	0
84	OTHER	Arshavin	Kompany	C	Trip	1	1
85	OFFSIDE	MC		NC	Richards comes back some 4 meters offside and takes a shot that goes wide; the assistant signals nothing.	0	0
88	OTHER	Aguero	Vermaelen	C	Came in late	1	1
90	OTHER	Richards	Chamakh	C	Blocked his run with his arm. Again the ref makes nothing of the arm gestures of the City player	1	1
92	OTHER	Song	Aguero	C	Put his foot in	1	1
			2nd half score
	TOTAL					17	20
	%		CORRECT		56,67%	48,78%
	YELLOW				1	3	33,33
	RED				0	1	0,00
	PENALTY			0	1	0,00
	GOAL				1	2	50,00
	OTHER				3	4	75,00
	Total				5	11	45,45
	OFFSIDE				3	5	60,00
			TOTAL SCORE
	TOTAL					34	39
	%		CORRECT		64,15%	56,52%
	YELLOW				3	7	42,86
	RED				0	1
	PENALTY			0	1	0,00
	GOAL				1	2	50,00
	OTHER				6	8	75,00
	Total				10	19	52,63
	OFFSIDE				3	6	50,00
	Correct calls	For MC		15	46,88%
			For Arsenal	17	53,13%
			Total correct calls	32
	Wrong calls	Against MC	2	11,76%
			Against Arsenal	15	88,24%
			Total		17
	Total fouls made by	MC		22	57,89%
			Arsenal		16	42,11%
			Total		38

Well the answer is no I’m afraid. This was more the Dowd we have seen of last season. Often far away from the action and thus it is more difficult to get your decisions correct.

After the booking of Song very early on for a minor foul I started fearing the worst. But I had the impression he didn’t want to expose him like he did at Newcastle unless it was really needed. So he didn’t send an Arsenal player off. I wonder if Dowd knew that booking Song would get him banned for the next game?

The City goal was a valid one. If Silva was offside or not on the moment Balotelli made his shot doesn’t matter. He was onside when Aguero headed it and then he scored from an onside position.

Minutes late we should have been level. I got suspicious about the disallowed goal when they didn’t put the line on the screen when showing it. And later yesterday evening MOTD2 did put the line there and RVP was clearly onside when he got the pass from which he scored. Thanks to a link I could lay my hands on a clear picture

Both linesman did all they could to help City. A few minutes later RVP was again ruled offside and when Hart scrambled in to a corner we didn’t get it for an offside that was not even close to being offside. The assistants where terrible today with only half of the decisions  correct. And the other ones couldn’t be checked because of no replays.

A terrible one was when Richards could walk back from almost the goal line without the flag being raised at all. Lucky he didn’t score but those were really terrible mistakes by the assistants.

Finally the penalty. Koscielny made a cross and the ball was long in the air and it was stopped by the arm of Richards. His arm was close but not against his body. But even then if you stop the ball with your arm, a ball that has been flying in the air for a while you must make sure that you stop it with your chest, leg, head or whatever but not your arm. I’ve seen penalties given against Arsenal where the ball didn’t travel that far in the air before ending up at the arm of an Arsenal player.

Notice the high amount of wrong calls and this is really unusual for Dowd this season. So it wasn’t the Dowd he can be but the Dowd some of us feared he might be. The ref and his assistant cost us one point today. And one could argue for 3 points even.

The ongoing saga Dowd-Song continues and I really would not put Song on a field where Dowd is in charge as he will book him if he possibly can.

And a final note: it was amazing what a low score he got in this game to be honest.

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