Paul Tierney

VAR at the centre of things once again, plus big penalty calls at Arsenal and Liverpool in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

February 1, 2019

It was a bumper week of action as the FA Cup took precedent and the availability (and unavailability) of VAR once again took centre stage before a topsy-turvy 24 hours of [...]

Liverpool’s Salah lucky, Manchester City’s Sterling unlucky in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

January 25, 2019

Former Premier League referee Mark Halsey returns this week to browse another eventful weekend of officiating. It started off with a manager sent off for celebrating his team [...]

Liverpool get a lucky break while Manchester City and United match refereed “excellently” in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

November 16, 2018

The most recent weekend of Premier League action possibly brought up some of the most talked about officiating of the season before. Mark Halsey is back to explain his [...]

Boly handball and flurry of red cards spark call for VAR in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

August 30, 2018

There’s no getting away from it, this was a brutal weekend for the Premier League. Four red cards in the Saturday 3pm kick-offs plus a more than dubious handball in [...]

Poor refereeing all around as Southampton, Manchester United & Liverpool hard done by in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

April 26, 2018

In a bumper fortnight which saw several rounds of Premier League action, some big midweek games, two FA Cup semi-finals and two Champions League semi-finals, we definitely [...]

VAR in Manchester United game was a “farce” whilst Manchester City game handled badly in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

February 22, 2018

The FA Cup took centre stage during another controversial weekend of officiating which threw up more questions about VAR, more incidents involving Dele Alli and a managerial [...]

Tottenham vs Liverpool offside debacle + Chelsea & Manchester United in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

February 9, 2018

The Premier League threw up not just one of the games of the season last weekend, but one of the games of the weekend for refereeing talking points. In a way it [...]

Chelsea’s red card was spot, plus more praise for Jon Moss in Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

September 20, 2017

In a weekend full of contentious decisions and questionable penalty claims, Mark Halsey has given us his two cents on the Premier League’s biggest referee calls of gameweek [...]

Ref Review with Mark Halsey: Liverpool manager needs to show some respect

May 11, 2017

As the Premier League now quickly winds down to what is turning into a rather tepid finale, the only excitement right now seems to surround the man in the middle. On a [...]