I Felt like being Shelby Woo today, Deal with It.

[youth-depraved.livejournal.com]

So I've come to notice a lot of people complaining about the refs this season in particular in the EPL. SOOOO I've decided to find out the facts about how the refs have called the games this season. By using THIS as my source, let us begin:



Martin Atkinson
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 84
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 10
Total Games Refereed: 25
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Arsenal and Wigan, 2 each
Has shown AT LEAST 1 card in every match this season

Stuart Attwell
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 53
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 2
Total Games Refereed: 13
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Bolton and Stoke, 1 each

Mark Clattenburg
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 59
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 4
Total Games Refereed: 22
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Blackburn, Manchester City, Bolton, and Birmingham - 1 each

Mike L. Dean
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 101
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 2
Total Games Refereed: 28
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Arsenal and Manchester United, 1 each

Phil Dowd
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 109
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 9
Total Games Refereed: 30
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Arsenal, West Brom and Blackburn, 2 each

Chris J. Foy
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 71
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 2
Total Games Refereed: 26
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Newcastle and Birmingham, 1 each

Kevin Friend
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 57
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 4
Total Games Refereed: 18
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Bolton, Sunderland, Wigan and Birmingham, 1 each

Mark Halsey
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 39
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 1
Total Games Refereed: 20
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Liverpool, 1

Michael Jones
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 84
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 3
Total Games Refereed: 26
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Arsenal, Blackpool, Manchester City - 1 each

Andre Marriner
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 93
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 3
Total Games Refereed: 26
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Sunderland, Manchester City, Manchester United - 1 each

Lee Mason
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 103
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 3
Total Games Refereed: 23
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Wolves, Everton, West Brom - 1 each

Jonathon Moss
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 6
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 0
Total Games Refereed: 2
NO Red card has been issued by this Ref
Has shown AT LEAST 1 card in every match this season

Michael Oliver
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 56
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 1
Total Games Refereed: 17
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: West Brom - 1
Has shown AT LEAST 1 card in every match this season

Lee Robert
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 66
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 5
Total Games Refereed: 25
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: West Brom - 2
Has shown AT LEAST 1 card in every match this season

Neil Swarbrick
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 3
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 1
Total Games Refereed: 2
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Blackpool - 1
Has shown AT LEAST 1 card in every match this season

Anthony Taylor
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 45
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 3
Total Games Refereed: 12
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Sunderland, Tottenham, Everton - 1 each

Peter Walton
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 89
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 6
Total Games Refereed: 26
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Bolton, Everton, Manchester City, Sunderland, Aston Villa, West Ham - 1 each

Howard Webb
Total Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: 91
Total Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: 2
Total Games Refereed: 28
PL Team(s) Shown the Most Red Cards by Ref: Newcastle, Aston Villa - 1 each

OVERALL
Ref to show MOST Yellow Cards Shown in PL Matches: Phil Dowd (109)
Ref to show MOST Red Cards Shown in PL Matches: Martin Atkinson (10)
Ref to Officiate the Most Matches: Phil Dowd (30)
PL Team Shown the Most Red Cards by Refs this season: Arsenal (6)




Aand there you have it.

Comments

[monooniecfc.livejournal.com]

We didnt get ONE red card this year?!?!?!? How cool are we <333

Also, hi Mark you qt!!

[crouchea.livejournal.com]

er, yeah we did! Michael Essien for an awful lunge on Clint Dempsey in the West London derby!

[monooniecfc.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Wait. That was an awful tackle i remember.

[scruby.livejournal.com]

Great post bb.

Atkinson, just wow.

[a-killaponius.livejournal.com]

....SHELBY WOO!!!!!!!!


Oh God, I am so ohohohohoooold.

[youth-depraved.livejournal.com]

I knooow, I feel so old too :(

[laacrima.livejournal.com]

Mark Clattenburg > Howard Webb

Always.

[bloolikejazz.livejournal.com]

i see the best was saved for the end...hello mr webb!

[ghost-busting.livejournal.com]

Ooooh stats.

Eurgh Atkinson.

[slashxwhoreorly.livejournal.com]

I actually like Phil Dowd

[miselemeas.livejournal.com]

I do too. He's my new Alan Wiley.

[epouvante.livejournal.com]

me too :)

[hi-mimi.livejournal.com]

Ditto :) His decisions last weekend were spot on, imo.

[openexit.livejournal.com]

Lol Arsenal

[mhfromnh.livejournal.com]

are there statistics on calls in favor of a team? that could be very telling.


also: SHELBY WOO! THEY NEED TO RELEASE THE DVDS OF THAT MASTERPIECE.

[arooj.livejournal.com]

Mike Dean and Andre Marriner obviously don't get paid enough so we'll have to change that for next season ;)

Atkinson has been the worst referee imo and the stats prove he is card happy unless he should be red carding Luiz :)

[kris-boyd-etc.livejournal.com]

I've said it before and I like to repeat it: I like refs (well some of them, especially Mark Clattenburg, Howard Webb and Kevin Friend) because without them there wouldn't be football. What they have to stand week in week out is amazing and being a part time assistant ref myself makes me to understand and respect just a little bit what they have to go through during and after a match.

I also have my sayings on ref when they have a bad game sometimes or just don't see some certain players go diving on and on but sometimes you can't see some situations like on the telly and only that some certain players are well known for diving or tackle you can't give them their marching order because the supporters want to.

It's a matter of vision and here refs are far beyond the modern possibilities, i.e. video technology as already used in most sports. It will be used in some youth tournament in the near future (I've forgotten what it was) and will hopefully get through to the big stage. So there won't be less discussion or debate about refs in the near future, too, I hope so.

[epouvante.livejournal.com]

I also have my sayings on ref when they have a bad game sometimes or just don't see some certain players go diving on and on but sometimes you can't see some situations like on the telly and only that some certain players are well known for diving or tackle you can't give them their marching order because the supporters want to.

ia.

[emyoueffsee.livejournal.com]

the best refs are the ones you barely notice

[theosakansun.livejournal.com]

THIS!

[emyoueffsee.livejournal.com]

and webb, we were all rooting for you..

[per-tree.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I hate most EPL refs. lol.

[prisness.livejournal.com]

other than martin atkinson, most refs have an ok ratio of good to bad games. doesn't help that FIFA refuse to look into video replays/goal line technology, there's only so much the human eye can see

[theosakansun.livejournal.com]

Howard Webb, hands down, is the worst referee ever. Atkinson sucks big time too, but he's nowhere near as bad as Webb *shrugs*

[bunnycupcakes.livejournal.com]

LMAO @ my comment below yours. IDK, I feel like Atkinson is an overt asshole whereas Howard is just sucky but he does try.

Most of the time.

[bunnycupcakes.livejournal.com]

LMAO. I knew it would be Atkinson; say what you want about Webb, but he at least tries not to be an obvious asshole.

[hi-mimi.livejournal.com]

The most shocking referee I've seen this season is Martin Atkinson. The only memory which serves is Fulham against Bolton in the FA Cup (although this is probably biased and only because I was there in the rain, front row in an uncovered part of the stand, ha, ha, ha.)
There were five or six incidents where Bolton defenders used Bobby Zamora as a launching pad (as in to lift themselves into the air to meet a header by grabbing his shoulders) and knocked him to the ground. There were a few other things but this is what really sticks. He was missing quite a few Bolton fouls. It certainly wasn't deliberate on the part of Bolton but if a side can get away without cards, surely they might keep fouling?
Don't get me wrong, Bolton are an incredible side and seeing Holden close up was sdjhfsdjfkhsdf.

/Fairly pointless story.
There are some incredible referees out there and they don't deserve some of the abuse that they get. It's an extremely difficult role to fill... It's just... Atkinson...