Andy Turnbull

The weekend's biggest and most controversial incident was at Villa Park on Saturday afternoon. I was fortunate enough to be at the game and thought the referee had a good game until just after Manchester United equalized. Gabby Agbonlahor was on a run when he slightly over-ran the ball. Ashley Young went to challenge for […]

Diving has been and continues to be a problem in the modern game and it was again brought to the media's attention this weekend after there were six diving incidents, all of which led to differing outcomes. Chelsea's 2-0 victory over Hull City was where the most debated incident occurred. Gary Cahill was already on […]

Manchester City against Everton was packed with big decisions throughout. Andre Marriner was in charge and it's fair to say he didn't have the best game of his career. The penalty incident, which led to the only goal of the game was a terrible decision. Marriner judged that Phil Jagielka fouled James Milner in the […]

Southampton against Manchester City was the showpiece game of the weekend, following the home side's superb start to the season. Mike Jones was the man in charge at St Mary's and had a strange first 45 minutes. The most bizarre decision was to punish Sergio Aguero for a dive, when it was clear that Jose […]

West Ham United continued their impressive form at the weekend. Diafra Sakho has been a key factor in the Hammers success and he scored the second goal in their 2-1 win over the reigning champions Manchester City. The use of goal line technology was crucial in the awarding of the goal. Joe Hart saved the […]

The most entertaining game of the weekend came at the King Power Stadium, where Leicester came back from 3-1 down to win 5-3 at the expense of Manchester United. There is no escaping that United's defense were all over the place. It was naive at the best of times, but the decision to award Leicester […]

The start of the new Barclays Premier League season brought goals, shocks as well red cards, meaning that the officials were given no time to settle in and get used to their new vanishing spray. There were 3 red cards over the weekend, all of which were totally justified. However, Kyle Naughton's dismissal in the […]

Today marks the first day of the final round of Group Stage World Cup matches. Kicking off at 4pm ET/1pm PT today are Mexico versus Croatia, and Brazil against Croatia. Here are the predicted lineups for today's Brazil vs Cameroon game: Brazil Brazil are under huge pressure from their own supporters today after the disappointment […]

France have made a great start to the tournament, in comparison to 2010, after beating Honduras 3-0. Didier Deschamps will deploy the same starting XI that convincingly won that match.There may be a alteration in formation from 4-2-3-1 to 4-3-3 in order to have a more attacking style and go for the win that will […]

Swansea cruised to a 4-1 victory against Aston Villa, ensuring the Swans' Premier League status for another season, but the win put Villa into deep trouble with tough fixtures remaining against Tottenham and Manchester City. But should Wilfried Bony's opener have stood? The picture above shows that the Ivorian was in an offside position when […]

Referee Mike Dean was kept very busy at Stamford Bridge on Saturday with two key incidents changing the course of the game. The first was an obvious elbow from Ramires on Sebastien Larsson (see photo above). Dean was perfectly placed, but didn't spot the clash as he had given advantage to Chelsea. The elbow immediately followed, but […]

Referee Mark Clattenburg was kept very busy during Liverpool's 3-2 victory over Manchester City, in what was a huge game in the race for the title. There were several key incidents, which could have benefitted both teams. Firstly, Edin Dzeko was brought down after a clumsy tackle from Mahamadou Sakho in the penalty area. Dzeko […]

There were three major talking points from Liverpool's 2-1 win over West Ham at Upton Park. Referee Anthony Taylor was kept very busy all afternoon and didn't have a great game in my opinion. Here's why. The first controversy was when he awarded a penalty to Liverpool after James Tomkins was judged to have prevented […]

This weekend's Premier League fixtures had the least amount of controversial refereeing decisions for a very long time. A good weekend for the officials in that respect, but there were still a few incidents where further punishment could have been taken. Firstly, Juan Mata was fouled in the box during Man Utd's 4-1 victory against […]

By far the biggest talking point from the weekend's soccer matches was the decision from referee Andre Marriner to send off the wrong player during Arsenal's humiliating 6-0 defeat at the hands of Chelsea. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain clearly saved a shot from Eden Hazard. Chelsea appealed to Andre Marriner who took a long time to award the […]