Craig Pawson

Ref Review with Mark Halsey: Tottenham penalty spot on, Manchester United & City got lucky

May 4, 2017

As we crawl towards the end of another Premier League season, simulation and diving took centre stage last weekend with several dubious penalties awarded on Sunday afternoon. [...]

Ref Review with Mark Halsey: Manchester City vs Arsenal refereed poorly

April 26, 2017

It was perhaps the busiest weekend of refereeing yet this weekend as six Premier League matches intertwined with the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley. With more and more on the [...]

Ref Review with Mark Halsey: Sunderland man unlucky, praise for Bobby Madley

April 13, 2017

After another week of big refereeing decisions which saw a controversial call in a battle near the bottom and a straight red card at the Stadium of Light, [...]

Ref Review with Mark Halsey: Liverpool vs Everton, Chelsea vs Manchester City and more

April 7, 2017

It’s a bumper Ref Review to end the week as youaretheref.com‘s Mark Halsey takes a look at some of the key decisions from not only last weekend’s action, [...]

Ref Review: Manchester United got the luck of the draw, so did league leaders Chelsea

March 2, 2017

Slightly later than anticipated, youaretheref.com‘s Mark Halsey is back to review another weekend of action which saw Andre Marriner under the spotlight at the EFL Cup [...]

Ref Review: Liverpool not hard done by but Leicester can feel aggrieved

February 3, 2017

After a brief period away for one or two reasons, we’re back and so is youaretheref.com‘s Mark Halsey to take a look at all the midweek refereeing decisions that [...]

Ref Review: Controversy for Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City & Liverpool

January 4, 2017

‘Tis the season to be jolly, unless you’re a Premier League referee hell bent on giving out red cards as we enter 2017. Fernandinho, Sofiane Feghouli and Simon [...]

Ref Review: Manchester United & Tottenham were fortunate, Arsenal can have no complaints

December 22, 2016

Ex-Premier League referee Mark Halsey from youaretheref.com is back to look over the last pre-Christmas action which saw two dubious goals against Arsenal at the Etihad and [...]

REF REVIEW: Manchester City vs Chelsea wasn’t controlled, United got a bit lucky and so did Tottenham Hotspur

December 7, 2016

Youaretheref.com‘s Mark Halsey is back once more to look over another controversial weekend of refereeing decisions. From the heated Manchester City vs Chelsea [...]

Ref Review: Chelsea get lucky against Manchester United, Tottenham got off lightly

October 25, 2016

Alex Vryzakis looks at the weekend’s refereeing decisions including Moussa Sissoko’s elbow to Harry Arter, penalty decisions at West Ham and Michael [...]