Officials

Premier League referees will finally use pitchside monitors properly from next season to rule on offside calls as well as red cards.

The Daily Mail today reported that PGMOL are not responsible for the fact that referees do not use pitchside monitors because that was the decision of Premier League clubs in at least four meetings.

For the seventh time this season, Mike Dean will be involved with an Arsenal match, this time taking charge of our FA Cup tie at Portsmouth on Monday night.

VAR will be used in the Europa League knock-out stages which start this week with Arsenal welcoming Olympiacos to the Emirates.

Arsenal won 4-0 against Newcastle United on Sunday, but that shouldn’t stop us drawing attention to a terrible offside decision against Mesut Özil in the second half.

Lee Mason will take charge of Arsenal’s game against Newcastle this weekend and, despite being viewed as a widely incompetent ref, he’s actually one we do really well under.

Bobby Madley is set for a return to refereeing in England, despite being sacked by PGMOL for mocking a disabled person.

After slipping to second place for a week, Arsenal are back on top of the yellow card table.

Arsenal will travel to Bournemouth on Monday night for a match refereed, again, by Martin Atkinson, while Mike Dean will run the VAR. One week…

Stuart Attwell took charge of Arsenal’s game against Chelsea and maintained his record of being Arsenal’s worst referee in the Premier League.

When Arsenal played Sheffield United back in October, 76% of fans believed Mike Dean robbed us of a penalty, something he did again when the sides met this weekend.

Even though Arsenal weren’t at their best against Sheffield United on Saturday, had they been given a stonewall penalty when they were 1-0 up then the result would have been a different matter altogether.

Arsenal will face Sheffield United on Saturday afternoon with Mike Dean in charge, Lee Mason as the fourth official and Martin Atkinson running the VAR.

Look, let’s be clear from the start. I don’t think there is an anti-Arsenal refereeing bias or conspiracy.

The Premier League has no intention of changing how it uses VAR to adjudicate marginal offsides despite a reminder from the International Football Association Board that VAR is supposed to be used for ‘clear and obvious errors’.

After their win over Arsenal, Frank Lampard admitted Chelsea rode their luck and that Jorginho probably should have seen red for a second yellow.

Mikel Arteta was robbed of his first win as Arsenal head coach by a series of awful mistakes, led by the referee Craig Pawson.

Mike Dean will take charge of our trip to West Ham on Monday night as we move back into our rotation of regular refs with just three taking charge of 60% of Arsenal’s games this season.

It’s been a few weeks since I updated the yellow card table so let’s see if Arsenal are still picking up more yellows per game than any other side as has been the case all season.

Arsenal get another new ref for their trip to Leicester, not that it will make any difference when Brendan Rodger’s men take on Unai Emery’s.