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Today's referee is Chris Foy A scoreless goal at the Reebok stadium between Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal. Only one person scored but was it the ref?

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What does it take for any other player other than RVP to score goals? It is now official, he's not pretending any more - Theo Walcott has a mind made of mush in front of goal. Always. Aaron Ramsey is another. The Ox too for all his brightness was presented with a clear chance.

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Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: Gary Beswick Assistant 2: Simon Bennett 4th Official: Peter Walton

Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... and oh man what a week it has been – I have been knee deep in data again and working [.

Last night Manchester City were denied two penalties by Peter "Grandad" Walton.
So what? Referees are paid to make decisions.
But what is it that influences the decisions that Grandad makes?
In 21 matches refereeing Manchester United over eight seasons, the Reds have won 15, drawn 6 and lost 0.

After Manchester United lost to the combined might of Blackburn and Newcastle shipping six goals in the process, they were 'rewarded' with the selection of Chris Foy to referee the FA Cup tie at the Council Estate.
The rest is history.
For the next match against Bolton, Peter Walton was 'randomly' selected by the PGMOB to officiate.

One thing we were really worried about at half time in Sunday's game against QPR was how long Yohan Cabaye would be out. Yohan Cabaye still gesticulating as he's being stretchered off Cabaye was the target of a rather brutal lunging tackle from Shaun Derry, but referee Chris Foy only gave the QPR defender a yellow card, but it ended up in Cabaye being stretchered [.

One thing we were really worried about at half time in Sunday's game against QPR was how long Yohan Cabaye would be out. Yohan Cabaye still gesticulating as he's being stretchered off Cabaye was the target of a rather brutal lunging tackle from Shaun Derry, but referee Chris Foy only gave the QPR defender a yellow card, but it ended up in Cabaye being stretchered [.

Fed-up of a night of Sergio Aguero running in behind the Wigan defence, Latics left-back Maynor Figueroa came up with a new way of defending Manchester City's counter attacks. After misjudging the flight of the ball, Figueroa opted for a leaping handball to deny Aguero a clear run on goal. Referee Chris Foy opted to [.

Venue: St James' Park, Toon. Date: Sun 15th Jan 2011. Kick-Off: 1:30 pm. Referee: Chris Foy. United came to this game on the back of 2 excellent straight wins against Man Utd 3-0 (got that one in early today!) and Blackburn 2-1 in the FA Cup. In contrast, Queens Park Rangers had taken only one [...]

Venue: St James' Park, Toon. Date: Sun 15th Jan 2011. Kick-Off: 1:30 pm. Referee: Chris Foy. Hello, good afternoon and welcome to our regular "match banter" feature. This time the Magpies will be facing the transitional Queen's Park Rangers under new manager, Mark Hughes, he of the slightly annoying mid-sentence sharp intakes of breath.

Tottenham vs Wolves 1-1 Highlights Video Goals Fletcher Modric 2012 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Tottenham vs Wolves 1-1 Highlights Video Goals Fletcher Modric 2012 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Tottenham vs Wolves 2012 ( Spurs v Wolves 2012 video below) Final score and result:- Tottenham vs Wolves 1-1 ( Modric/ Fletcher) White Hart Lane, London- 14th January, 2012- Saturday-15.

Newcastle United entertain QPR on Sunday and will be hoping to make it 3 wins in a row against a Rangers who could be revitalised following the appointment of Mark Hughes as manager. Venue: St James' Park. Date: Sun 15th Jan 2011. Kick-Off: 13:30. Referee: Chris Foy. QPR are in a bit of a pickle [...

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini was involved in an angry tunnel exchange with Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard after Wednesday night's 1-0 Carling Cup defeat at the Etihad Stadium.
The pair clashed twice, the second particularly fractious, with Gerrard annoyed at Mancini's response to a late tackle by Glen Johnson on Joleon Lescott.

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Tottenham vs Everton 2-0 Highlights 2012 Lennon Assou-Ekotto Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Tottenham vs Everton 2012 ( Spurs v Everton 2012 video below) Final score and result:- Tottenham vs Everton 2-0 ( Aaron Lennon, Benoit-Assou Ekotto) White Hart Lane, London- 11 January, 2011- Wednesday- 19.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has failed in his attempts to have the 4 match suspension he received following his red card against local rivals Manchester United rescinded. Kompany was given a straight red in the early stages of his team's FA cup 3rd round clash with United for a 2 footed sliding tackle - although replays seemed to show he did win the ball cleanly in the challenge.

The pundits all over the place are having a go at Chris Foy for expelling Vincent Kompany for a challenge on Nani in the FA Cup match last weekend. Their lamentations are everywhere: "It's the end of tackling as we...

For the third time in two months, Liverpool and Manchester City square off, this time in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final. Liverpool's trip to the Eastlands last week ended with the visitors on the wrong end of a 0-3 result that saw City concede most of the possession but take the chances they managed to create.

Vincent Kompany was rightly sent off for a two footed challenge on Nani at the weekend in a game that saw Manchester City knocked out of the FA Cup.

Nani got out of the way of the challenge, saving himself from getting hurt, and Wayne Rooney complained to referee Chris Foy.

After the game, Roberto Mancini claimed that the challenge was "300%" not a red card and accused Rooney of influencing the ref.

Let's face it, yesterday's Manchester derby was awful. Yes, there were goals and a spirited second-half fightback from City after an understandably poor first-half display.

But the game was ruined as a fair contest by Chris Foy and Wayne Rooney in the eleventh minute. Anyone who knows the rules of football intimately will understand that Foy's decision to send off City captain Vincent Kompany for his tackle on Nani was plainly wrong.

By JOHN BOSCHINI

The FA Cup has lost some of its prestige with the rise of the Premier League but Sunday's clash between Manchester United and Manchester City was a glimpse at the drama knockout competitions can provide in a 3-2 win for United.

United were up by three goals before halftime thanks to two goals from Wayne Rooney and a stunning strike from Danny Welbeck.

One of the lasting benefits of watching soccer (football or whatever you want to call it) is how it never ceases to surprise and just when you think you've got it all figured out, everything changes. Such was the nature of today's FA Cup Third Round match between Premier League Leaders Man City and their closest rivals Manchester United.

Manchester United are through to the fourth round of the FA Cup after defeating Manchester City in a pulsating encounter at Eastlands. Goals from Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck sent United fans into raptures as Fergie's men reclaimed local rights, while City were left incensed by referee Chris Foy's decision to send Kompany off.

1. Poor refereeing – the gift that keeps on giving.

Those that have been watching long enough will argue if Kompany's tackle was really worth the red card. A few years ago, it would have been a brilliant tackle but now considered a foul, but honestly to fans on both sides, was it really worth a red card?

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Vincent Kompany should never have been sent off. It wasn't a blind lunging two foot tackle which could have harmed Nani. He actually goes low to corral the ball with his right instep and gets it very cleanly. There was little contact.

Chris Foy really made a royal mess.

Vincent Kompany was controversially dismissed by referee Chris Foy during Sunday's thrilling FA Cup 3rd Round clash between Manchester City and Manchester City. The City captain went in for a challenge on United winger Nani in the 12th minute but referee Chris Foy pulled play back before showing Kompany a straight red-card despite contact with [.

Paul Scholes is back to Utd

Man Utd is making Rob Smyth eat his words. Wayne Rooney has scored two including a penalty and Danny Welbeck's wondrous volley rounds of the tally.

Vincent Kompany was sent off in the 12th minute for a two footed tackle on Nani which got the ball but not the man however Chris Foy, who else (memories of the Spurs vs Stoke match linger on) thought differently.

A very debatable decision in the Man United vs Man City game, with Vincent Kompany given a straight red card for his two-footed tackle on Nani. Kompany jumped in to the challenge and had both feet off the ground, albeit not very high off the ground, and completely won the ball in the tackle. The referee Chris Foy seemed to ignore the challenge at first, there were no complaints from Nani as he lay on the floor without the ball, but Rooney was close to the referee and complained that it was a bad tackle which very may have influenced the referee and pressured him into handing Kompany a straight red card.

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For the game between Stoke and Tottenham we had ref Chris Foy coming out of his bed. How did he do this game?

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Recent games have dealt with the notion of ‘Arry as a tactical buffoon in no uncertain manner. In days gone by the signing of VDV, the plan to loan Bale to Nottingham Forest and the instruction to Pav to "go out there and f***ing run about" did little for our glorious leader's reputation as tactical genius, and was grist to the mill of a whole army or interweb critics (mea culpa) who lambasted him for doing little more than closing his eyes, pinning a tail on a donkey and accepting the plaudits as his blind gamble paid off.

We'd all respect refs more if they dared to face the cameras

Never have Premier League referees had a tougher time than right now. In my view, Mark Clattenburg blundered when David Silva went over in the box at Chelsea on Monday night. Chris Foy, wrong on three crucial calls which went against Tottenham on Sunday, was even worse.

I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky...

No sooner had I popped a decomposed pigeon heart in an envelope and scrawled FAO Chris Foy on the side with my own blood, (actually it was just red biro- I'm not a monster) I'm hearing word that Tottenham are ready to set off a dirty great rocket under their wage ceiling to sign facially challenged frontman, Carlos Tevez.

By Alan Duffy

In a bizarre act of utter madness that even Chris Foy (or is it Hoy?) and his team of assistants couldn't miss, one Gabriel Orozco, goalkeeper for Argentinian side Recreativo Estrellas, decided to bite the face of an opponent after a minor coming together in the box during a local cup game in Cordoba.

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Two top-flight refs, who shall of course remain fatherless, cost me a small fortune over the weekend and the soundtrack to this season has been the chant of, ‘You don't know what you're doing.

By Alan Duffy

One of these men is a Premier League referee, the other a gold medal-winning Olympic cyclist can you spot which is which?

In a story rather reminiscent (in a cyber kind of way) of that infamous paediatrician/paedophile mix-up some years back, irate Tottenham fans, angered at the officials' performance in their 2-1 defeat against Stoke on Sunday, have been taking to Twitter in their droves, but directing their (rather justified) ire at cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy, rather than the guilty official, Chris Foy.

What's worse than having the similar name to an unpopular referee? Being famous and having a similar name.

Chris Hoy is an Olympic gold medal (three time) cyclist. Christ Foy is a Premiership referee who had an unfortunate weekend, which then led to lots of unfortunate moments on Chris Hoy's Twitter feed.

What's worse than having the similar name to an unpopular referee? Being famous and having a similar name.

Chris Hoy is an Olympic gold medal (three time) cyclist. Christ Foy is a Premiership referee who had an unfortunate weekend, which then led to lots of unfortunate moments on Chris Hoy's Twitter feed.

Pedal-ty, ref! Four-times Olympic cycling gold medalist Sir Chris Hoy has revealed he has become the victim of Twitter hate campaign orchestrated by stupid Tottenham supporters. The confused Spurs fans were angry at referee Chris Foy (note: Foy, not Hoy) following his performance in their match at Stoke on Sunday.

Hi everyone,
As most of you have seen the game between Stoke and Tottenham there were a few questionable decisions made by the referee Chris Foy.
First I think its right to talk about Peter Crouch's handling of the ball before setting up the goal. It could be said that the referee did not have a clear view of the incident, however the fact that the assistant referee could have signaled should not be ignored.

Yesterday hadn't, if we are completely honest, been Chris Foy's greatest afternoon as a Premier League referee. His performance during the match between Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur left a little to be desired and will have left those in North London of a blue and white persuasion rather scratching their heads.

Hoy There has been somewhat of a twitter backlash following Chris Foy's refereeing performance yesterday. Which has of course led to some ill informed / drunk / idiotic Spurs fans get on twitter and commence the abuse of triple oylmpic champion cyclist Chris Hoy.
Foy Some of the offending tweets are listed below.