So you remember how we were told City are refereed more “harshly” and Arsenal more “leniently”? (When in fact they just haven’t been blown up for fouls much.)
Well I went over last season too and it turns out this is a thing. Opposition teams just don’t get free-kicks against City. The serial champions gave away only *51%* of the average amount of free-kicks everyone else in the PL did in 2023-24. The next lowest was Arsenal with 77.3%.
And, yes, this figure is adjusted for possession. It’s almost as if PGMOL has never heard of Rodri.
If you were a Premier League referee and you intended to deliver a title to the bookmakers’ favourites for, like, whatever reason, then a good way of going about it would be to let them get away with murder.
Oh, and you’d also enforce rules you don’t apply to any other team to send off players from their strongest title challengers (for not even committing fouls).
It is essential that the new football regulator either abolishes (preferably) or imposes stringent governance oversight (at the very least) on PGMOL. Because it does not seem to be delivering against its primary responsibility for fair and objective officiating of Premier League matches.
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Well I went over last season too and it turns out this is a thing. Opposition teams just don’t get free-kicks against City. The serial champions gave away only *51%* of the average amount of free-kicks everyone else in the PL did in 2023-24. The next lowest was Arsenal with 77.3%.
And, yes, this figure is adjusted for possession. It’s almost as if PGMOL has never heard of Rodri.
If you were a Premier League referee and you intended to deliver a title to the bookmakers’ favourites for, like, whatever reason, then a good way of going about it would be to let them get away with murder.
Oh, and you’d also enforce rules you don’t apply to any other team to send off players from their strongest title challengers (for not even committing fouls).
It is essential that the new football regulator either abolishes (preferably) or imposes stringent governance oversight (at the very least) on PGMOL. Because it does not seem to be delivering against its primary responsibility for fair and objective officiating of Premier League matches.
🔴⚪️
x.com/standardsport/…
Here are the calculations for the sake of transparency. The raw data come from the ever-reliable @fbref. 
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