Simon Hooper and David Coote replace Mike Jones and Neil Swarbrick in the Select Group keeping it at 18 referees and 36 ARs. Kick-offs 15:00 BST unless stated. Friday 10 August 20:00 Man Utd v Leicester City Referee: Andre Marriner Assistants: Scott Ledger, Simon Long Fourth official: Anthony Taylor Saturday 11 August 12:30 Newcastle United v Spurs Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistants: Lee Betts, Stephen Child Fourth official: Paul Tierney AFC Bournemouth v Cardiff City Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Mark Scholes Fourth official: Graham Scott Fulham v Crystal Palace Referee: Mike Dean Assistants: Ian Hussin, Dan Robathan Fourth official: Robert Jones Huddersfield Town v Chelsea Referee: Chris Kavanagh Assistants: Peter Kirkup, Marc Perry Fourth official: Michael Oliver Watford v Brighton & Hove Albion Referee: Jonathan Moss Assistants: Eddie Smart, Andy Halliday Fourth official: David Coote 17:30 Wolves v Everton Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Richard West, Adrian Holmes Fourth official: Simon Hooper Sunday 12 August 13:30 Liverpool v West Ham United Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn Fourth official: Paul Tierney 13:30 Southampton v Burnley Referee: Graham Scott Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, Daniel Cook Fourth official: Lee Probert 16:00 Arsenal v Man City Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Simon Bennett, Stuart Burt Fourth official: Andre Marriner What a shock. Oliver gets the first big game.
Mike Dean still going strong. Really remarkable. Been refereeing in the EPL since 2000. Atkinson is another who is still going strong. Both will probably end up refereeing over 400 EPL games (if they haven't already).
Dean is at 453 and Atkinson at 349. And since it was a topic of conversation last year, here at the ages of the 18 SG refs. 32, 33, 33, 35, 36, 36, 37, 39, 39, 45, 46, 47, 47, 47, 47, 49, 50, 53 There's an interesting bifurcation where you have half of your referees over 45 and half of your referees under 40. It's interesting that outside of Clattenburg, England didn't produce a top tier referee who would now be in the prime of their career (40 to 45).
So what's the over/under number on how many pens Mike Dean gives? He always leans strict early on, every year. It's gotta happen.
These handling PKs are becoming ridiculous. A rifled shot, trying to get out of the way, hands WAY WAY down. Wow...good controversial start to the season.
You’re kidding right? That was a 100% a penalty. The defender even pointed to his bicep where he said he played the ball. And he wasn’t the player the ball was shot towards, he was the player the ball more slowly rebounded to.
I wasn't watching the start of the game and it took be about seven replays to see that the PK wasn't given for the guy who blocked the shot.
Yep...sorry folks. I see it now. Knee jerk reaction from just watching live. Now I feel like one of those parents/uncles/cousins/siblings.
Order seems to have been restored after the WC reluctance about yellow cards. In Friday’s match, a yellow was given for a pull back at the half way line to stop on attack, and in the Spurs match a yellow was given for stopping a break out even FURTHER back. Thank godness.
I suppose that's the average error that depends on a bunch of factors. The real error would be a distribution ranging from some value below 3.5 mm to some value above 3.5 mm. Now those values could be 2.5 to 4.5 mm or it could be 0.5 mm to 1 cm, but one this is for certain. It's more accurate than the human eye from 30 yards away.
Kavanagh with a good penalty call in the Huddersfield-Chelsea game. The only real question I have is why it wasn’t some sort of card. Big time lunge with a locked leg. One could have made a decent case for a SFP send off.
The contact was on the foot, and this, from FIFA (and UEFA, etc) is caution level at most, depending on intensity of contact, etc.
I would agree with a caution, but even at live speed the airborne nature and locked leg looked bad. Alonso (I think) saw it coming and took some evasive action. Had he been planted, that could have been really bad.
Straight red to Everton's Jagielka. Probably for SFP -- foot went past the ball and got the ankle -- but if it hadn't been SFP, would it be DOGSO?