http://blog.emiratesstadium.info/archives/23040? Can't believe someone took the time to analyse what is a dismally poor sample and came up with the suspicion that the refs are on our side based on TF sponsorship.... I thought the refs were mostly under par last season and reckon we had many threads discussing poor decisions that affected us adversely. I read one analysis of the manure game at this site, that showed wrong decisions positively affecting the home side, but this seems utter tosh... It does highlight Lee Mason's poor decisions against us and suggests Mike Dean and Chris Foy favourite the Rs, but really, 8 games out of 38?
It's a **** sample for a start- eight games, one of which was against Arsenal, in a 38 game season. Mike Dean was supposedly hugely biased for us but gave that ludicrous penalty against us in the cup. The findings seem to rest on two of five referees being against us and three being for us and therefore we are massively favoured overall. Also, the quality of language is dire.
You can make any conclusion you want from an 8 game sample and even then he found they were balanced 3 for us and 2 against us. I could pick 8 games and point out the refs cost us 10+ points. Its sad some weirdo has gone to those lengths but just makes himself look a right moron.
F*cking Lord Wenger! What a bunch of cretins, if they bothered to watch all our games without their biased hat on they'd have seen some serious shyte calls...
Exactly. He couldn't even get the first paragraph correct, saying Bolton lost to Stoke to send them down.
For a start it's incomprehensible. Secondly, it's badly presented and then, most of all, despite their claims of validity due to refs reviewing it, it's flawed to the point of being completely irrelevant. A 20% sample used to conclude on a whole season? That seriously affects the confidence interval (ie there isn't one). Who decided which games to use? That could introduce bias. If they discredit knockers by saying they're not refs then I'll ask what the statistics background of the writer who draws the conclusions is? Not much would be most statistically probable. That's irrespective of my QPR bias. Looking forward to the follow up article - what I did in the school holidays.
The Rs fans replying on the the comments had very good points. Is there anyway of getting them aboard this site?
Let’s say they’d picked another eight QPR games. Let’s say the survey was done on the following games: Aston Villa H, Sunday September 25 – Villa have a penalty incorrectly awarded in their favour which is scored, a short time later Alan Hutton deliberately handles a goalbound header on the line and the referee misses it. Should have finished 2-0 to QPR, actually finished 1-1. Referee was Michael Oliver. West Brom H, Saturday December 3 – Already leading 1-0 QPR score a perfectly legal second goal through Shaun Wright-Phillips that is incorrectly disallowed for offside. Should have won 2-1, actually drew 1-1. Referee was Martin Atkinson. Arsenal A, Saturday December 31 – Lost 1-0 to a goal from Robin Van Persie which was scored when QPR should have actually been at the other end preparing a corner that the linesman and referee Martin Atkinson incorrectly awarded as a goal kick. Lost 1-0, should have drawn 0-0. Norwich H, Monday January 2 – Leading 1-0 QPR are reduced to ten men when goalscorer Joey Barton is sent off in the first half for squaring up to Bradley Johnson. They lose 2-1. The sending off is debatable, Johnson clearly made a lot of it but by the letter of the law perhaps it was correct. What is not debatable is the fact that ten seconds before the incident Johnson deliberately kicked out at Barton as he ran past him, so should at the very least have been sent off himself. What’s also not debatable is that referee Neil Swarbrick and linesman Dave Richardson were initially happy for QPR to play on in possession of the ball for a good 10-15 seconds before play was stopped for another incident and then, after the officials were surrounded by Norwich players, Barton was sent off. If Barton’s offence was so severe as to warrant a red card, and Johnson’s so meagre as to warrant nothing, why were QPR allowed to play on in possession? Why wasn’t play stopped and Norwich awarded a free kick? Is it fair to assume that perhaps the officials guessed based on Barton’s reputation, and the reaction of Johnson and the Norwich players? Chelsea H, FA Cup, Saturday January 28. Lost 1-0 to a penalty that was won by Daniel Sturridge who, replays show, was not touched by Clint Hill in the incident. Lost 1-0, should have drawn 0-0 and gone to replay. Referee was Mike Dean. Aston Villa A, Wednesday February 1. No big, score decisions wrong in this one per se but in 97 minutes of football QPR were awarded two free kicks. Two. What makes this game interesting is that the referee was Neil Swarbrick, who was dropped from the Premiership list for five weeks after the Norwich game I mentioned earlier. After serving his time in the lower leagues he returned and was immediately given a QPR game again. And in that game we were given two free kicks in 97 minutes. Two. Bolton A, Saturday March 10. Martin Atkinson again, who the authors of this report say favours QPR and yet has already cost us two goals and three points in this sample of matches. Clint Hill scores a perfectly good goal in the first half which is missed by the officials, QPR are also denied a clear penalty in injury time at the end of the game. They equalise through an offside goal from Djibril Cisse and lose 2-1, had that been disallowed and the penalty been awarded and scored they’d have drawn 2-2. Man Utd A, Sunday April 8. Ashley Young, three yards offside, dives in the penalty area and is awarded a spot kick by Lee Mason who also sends off Shaun Derry into the bargain. QPR lose 2-0. As a further interesting side note you won’t find Lee Mason refereeing any games involving Bolton Wanderers because he is from Bolton, is the chairman of the Bolton Referees Association, is a season ticket holder at Bolton and his younger brother used to play for Bolton. It is however, apparently, acceptable for him to referee the teams that Bolton are directly competing with at the bottom of the league – as was the case here. It almost sounds like a conspiracy against us when its broken down like this in the first reply to the article. I dont know what planet the authors are living on.
Too much free time... Anyway, how many penalties did we get awarded last season... and how many against us?
The more you look at Lee Mason's performance that day the more suspect it becomes, that red card came out so quick...
The quality of some of the responses to that post has been interesting. It's almost become QPR v Arsenal. Moderator there hadn't passed my response yet and it wasn't that controversial, but there's plently of good Rs comment on there. Martin *YouRs* must be northern Rs, true?
The quality of some of the responses to that post has been interesting. It's almost become QPR v Arsenal. Moderator there hadn't passed my response yet and it wasn't that controversial, but there's plently of good Rs comment on there. Martin *YouRs* must be northern Rs, true?
Ha....we as a club broke a record for the most amount of red cards in a Premiership season, how can anyone think the ref's were on our side? Hills dissallowed goal? SWP's offside goal, that never was offside.
WBA goal from the same game was also offside as well but most people missed that. Virtually all big decisions went against us apart from the Chelsea game. It shocked me that the ref gave us a couple of 50 50 decisions when they always go to the big team.
And to sample 8 games.....and then make a theory that Ref's are favourable towards QPR is so laughable, the author deserves the stick he is getting. Even 50% wouldnt give you an accurate overview. Anyone can pick a small selection amount of games and find a pattern.... had the author reviewed 90%+ then the article might have some credibility.....as it stands now its a massive pile of rubbish.
