Biggest ref bias in favour of Liverpool

Martin Harper, EPL Index , 28 March, 18comments | Jump to most recent

This statistical analysis ponders the question: Are Referees biased towards the Home Team? The resulting EPL Index Stats Analysis show up a fairly consistent bias in terms of free-kicks given away before a yellow card is received (on average). By team, the greatest beneficiary of this at home is found to be Liverpool by a clear margin.

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John Keating
1 Posted 28/03/2013 at 15:19:17

So... what we've known for a while is now official. No surprise.

Can you imagine how many players we would have had on the pitch at the end of the match and the score if the Clattenberg Derby would have been at the home of the devil?

Karl Caslin
3 Posted 28/03/2013 at 16:56:03

Don't start me on this one:

1. Don Hutchinson goal
2. Carragher wrestle on Lescott
3. Clattenberg derby

My mind's gone blank, feel free to add to the list while I go the pub.

Ross Edwards
4 Posted 28/03/2013 at 20:13:51

Quelle Suprise. I always knew especially after the Clattenburg Derby that the RS had the decisions in their favour.

Steavey Buckley
5 Posted 29/03/2013 at 16:35:11

Nothing will change until the 4th official has access to TV replays which he conveys to the referee to make a proper decision based on facts not on his perception or the crowds reactions.

Dennis Stevens
6 Posted 29/03/2013 at 16:43:02

It's nothing to do with technology & everything to do with character & integrity.

Jay Harris
7 Posted 29/03/2013 at 17:55:21

Karl

Not to mention the Byan Hamilton goal in 1977, when Clive Thomas disallowed what would have been the winning goal in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool. Both sets of supporters had accepted it; only the man in black didn't think it was a goal.

He admitted later that it was a good goal unfortunately too late to get us to the final.

Colin Wainwright
8 Posted 29/03/2013 at 18:01:12

Hansen's blatant handball on the line, in the 84 League Cup Final.

Shitbags.

Karl Jones
9 Posted 29/03/2013 at 19:34:19

Also, a huge bias shown towards them by Sky... For a mid-table team, they're on live TV every week... At £500,000 per game, that's some compensation.

Chris Regan
10 Posted 29/03/2013 at 19:39:14

Karl, if my memory is right, the Carragher-Lescott thing happened twice, once each end, during that game. The only payback we ever got, during the 35 years of my life, was the Suarez disallowed goal in the last derby.

Does anyone remember the Hyppia tackle on Kanchelskis at Anfield when he was the lat man and took Andre out as he was though on goal... If memory serves, that straight red turned out to be free kick for them!!.???

And they still bleat on about that Suarez goal being notched off? I just despise them, jammy, jammy gits. Final point, usually every posting offers up a difference of opinion between blues except this one. Does any blue not think the RS are jammy gits?

James Martin
11 Posted 29/03/2013 at 20:03:53

What's most annoying Chris is that they make out that that Suarez disallowed goal was the biggest injustice of the last 20 years and that Man Utd only win stuff because the refs help them out, ridiculous hypocrisy. Unfortunately they're one of those teams that the TV companies will show if they're playing well and will also show if they're playing badly because its hilarious. We have to be on fire to get any TV time.

As for referees they have resisted technology for so long because it stops them influencing the results of games and having who the powers that be want in the moneyed positions. UEFA do not make money if West Brom are in the Champions League. The Premier League cannot have a Super Sunday between Fulham and Swansea. Governing bodies want big sides to face off regularly with their huge fanbases watching and will do whatever it takes not to upset the apple cart.

Also I have never understood how anyone interested enough in football to be a referee conveniently doesn't support any of the top teams. I bet the Premier League referees are full of embittered old kopites.

Brian Cleveland
12 Posted 29/03/2013 at 23:10:05

If I remember rightly, didn't they just get four penalties in three games?

We need more than three seasons to get that many penalties!

Mike Webb
13 Posted 30/03/2013 at 09:13:22

I always believed that referees had to declare the team they support. A few weeks back Danny Baker had Graham Poll on his R5 Saturday morning show, and put that question to him, and Poll stated that referees only have to declare it if they think they could not be impartial when refereeing.

I like Poll. He has always admitted he got the Hutchinson call wrong, but from time to time he lets out these nuggets of info about refereeing which are eye opening, and serve to deepen the conspiracy theories!

Brian Cleveland
14 Posted 01/04/2013 at 02:05:37

So is that now five penalties in four games for the RS after the Villa game? Incredible...not even SAF has managed to moan his way into that many penalties!

Patrick Murphy
15 Posted 01/04/2013 at 04:04:24

Brian I honestly don't think they are capable of beating a full strength team without the aid of the officials, its the main reason I'm wary of them in the run-in, they shouldn't be in contention for a European spot, but somehow they are. It would just be our fate to win at Arsenal and Spurs and get cheated at Anfield and open the door for them to sneak in by the back-door.

There is also an unsubstantiated article by Rolf Lopia that the FA's commercial department are in talks with a major kit manufacturer for a three year deal to be launched if England qualify for the Brazil world cup. Part of the deal is dependent upon the removal of the Three-Lions crest as it is association with imperialism is seen as an archaic symbol which undermines the FA's clarion call to kick racism out of football.

There are a number of suggestions to replace the old badge, but the favourite is to replace it with three Phalacrocorax carbo. Whilst nothing has been finalised the FA are confident that using this popular symbol will enhance the English game and its sporting integrity.

Rolf Lopia also reports that England will also have to change the shirt colour from White to Red with white shorts and Red socks so that the new logo will achieve maximum prominence, the rumours that the new kit maker will be the same as those who manufacture a well known PL club as well as supplying an Italian club side are as yet unfounded, but it is also thought that a leading international bank are keen to back the idea with hard cash as they see it as a major gateway to the Far East market.

Brian Cleveland
16 Posted 01/04/2013 at 06:08:43

Patrick.... It is 1st April.... are you pulling my plonker?

Brian Hill
17 Posted 01/04/2013 at 06:24:53

Chris Regan, Your memory is faulty. Kanchelskis left Everton in Jan 1997. Hyypia signed for them in May 1999.

Mike Green
18 Posted 01/04/2013 at 08:20:16

Take a bow Patrick #218.

I'd heard that it was red shorts as well though, not white?

Something to do with economies of scale achieved from purchasing single product ingredients driving profitability via max headroom margins......?

Patrick Murphy
19 Posted 01/04/2013 at 11:59:44

Brian I can reveal that Rolf Lopia is a mixed up kinda guy and his report was somewhat of a 'red herring'. Thanks Mike for your kind words.

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