Refereeing – Page 5 – The Offside Rule

Arsenal deserved penalty, Manchester City red card wrong, Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

August 23, 2017

The second round of Premier League games had just as much intensity as the opening round, and Mark Halsey gives his thoughts on the red cards given, the penalty not given, [...]

Chelsea man unlucky, but Arsenal got away with handball, Mark Halsey’s Ref Review

August 15, 2017

The Premier League stormed back this past weekend, bringing with it youaretheref.com’s Mark Halsey and his hot takes on the good calls, the okay calls, and the need for [...]

Referees of MLS

June 15, 2017

Being a referee is hard. But how are they governed and will video assistance change things? It needs to be said; being a referee is hard. Among the most antagonistic [...]

Ref Review with Mark Halsey: Arsenal can have no complaints

May 26, 2017

After 38 weeks of excitement, it all came down to the final weekend of Premier League football where quite literally nothing was up for grabs, bar a battle for 4th place [...]

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 [...]

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: Manchester United got lucky against Chelsea

April 18, 2017

It certainly wasn’t the worst weekend of refereeing but some key decisions in many games sees seven of the weekend’s officials come under scrutiny from [...]

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, [...]