The 2018-19 premier league season culminates this weekend and almost every type of award will be dished out but none for the referees. Golden boot, golden glove, you name it, but what about the golden whistle? Is there a referee of the year? My favorite tool for analyzing PGMOL referees is their issuance of yellow […]
(The Comments section was affected by our recent technical problems. If you are having difficulties logging-on drop us an email at [email protected]) VAR, properly applied, should provide significantly greater consistency on the big things, and there is some reason to hope that this could filter down to the smaller things, although the latter is mostly […]
It’s hard not to be a hypocrite as a football fan. For instance, last Sunday it would have been so easy for me to just enjoy the Chelsea-United game, revel in the action, and ignore or even support the refs role in it. Arsenal was effectively helped, slightly, in our own pursuit of fourth by […]
Kevin Friend is the referee for Everton vs Arsenal this Sunday as the Premier League enters the homestretch and the top-4/top-6 battle is intensifying. There are only three points separating Arsenal at 3rd and United at 6th. With most of the competing teams having only six matches remaining (seven in the case of Arsenal) or […]
Arsene Wenger made an amazing statement during an official press conference in February when he was the recipient of the Laureus lifetime award, a disclosure which has been virtually ignored by both mainstream and social media: “We built the Emirates without one penny injected by anybody. So, that means, this was all done on transfer […]
Is Stan Kroenke content with Arsenal being a top-6 club without the additional risks of spending big money to compete for top-top honors. After analyzing five years of Premier League prize money I am beginning to wonder. Many of us have come to the conclusion there is no rationale for the following recent decisions made […]
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