Alan, have you given any thought to looking into the percentage of subjective, “could have gone either way” decisions identified by the YW which go in favour of the Sevconians, &/or against Celtic?
My own, clearly biased, view is that whilst the types of outrageous decisions which those of us with a few years under our belts now rarely happen, that there is likely to still be patterns of assistance happening, both in terms of how often the 50/50 calls go in favour of Rangers & against us.
The other patterns of assistance is, as many have identified, the tendency of Scottish refs to penalise our players for fouls that the opposition would not be called up for. That’s probably tough to analyse, but the prevalence of 50/50 calls going one way, consistently, may perhaps be relatively easy for the stats nerds to look at?
I am extremely skeptical at the idea that our referees are getting all these decisions correct. I admit I am no referee but this is far from the first time I cannot fathom how the YW has managed to agree with the decision. How the Tavernier incident can be called not a foul when the Trusty one was needs to be explained to me like I’m a child.
I’m just happy that decisions are generally 50/50 calls. I remember the bad old days of jorge cadete getting called offside with defender grabbing him from behind.
Alan, have you given any thought to looking into the percentage of subjective, “could have gone either way” decisions identified by the YW which go in favour of the Sevconians, &/or against Celtic?
My own, clearly biased, view is that whilst the types of outrageous decisions which those of us with a few years under our belts now rarely happen, that there is likely to still be patterns of assistance happening, both in terms of how often the 50/50 calls go in favour of Rangers & against us.
The other patterns of assistance is, as many have identified, the tendency of Scottish refs to penalise our players for fouls that the opposition would not be called up for. That’s probably tough to analyse, but the prevalence of 50/50 calls going one way, consistently, may perhaps be relatively easy for the stats nerds to look at?
I am extremely skeptical at the idea that our referees are getting all these decisions correct. I admit I am no referee but this is far from the first time I cannot fathom how the YW has managed to agree with the decision. How the Tavernier incident can be called not a foul when the Trusty one was needs to be explained to me like I’m a child.
I’m just happy that decisions are generally 50/50 calls. I remember the bad old days of jorge cadete getting called offside with defender grabbing him from behind.
The “Digger” features more and more in the Honest Mistakes articles. Are patterns of assistance re-emerging?