Snapshot: The 2010/11 Premier League Table ‘Without Referee Errors’

Chris Wright

30th, August 2011

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By Chris Wright

How about that? Some diligent fellow by the name of Tim Long has gone over the entire 2010/11 season, spending 250-ish hours reviewing over 700 incidents across all 380 Premier League games to compile a league table in which every single ‘significantly incorrect’ refereeing decision has been rectified and accounted for.

As you can see, according to Long’s pain-staking research, Arsenal would have finished runners-up to Manchester United, Blackpool and Birmingham would have staved off relegation and Manchester City (the biggest beneficiaries off referee error by quite a margin) would’ve been a massive nine points worse off…

Amazing. Largely pointless. But amazing.

Thanks to Pies fan Morgan for the nudge. [Image: Sporting Intelligence]