Officials

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.

Arsenal retain their place at the top of the Premier League Yellow card table as Tottenham closed the gap this weekend.

Arsenal finally get a new referee this season in Michael Oliver but it’s not really good news at all.

With both VAR decisions going against Arsenal this weekend, it seems as if the new tech has it in for the Gunners, but are the refs really screwing Arsenal or are we just imagining it?

Former Premier League Mark Clattenburg has said that both VAR decisions at the Emirates were wrong.

Martin Atkinson went into Arsenal’s game against Crystal Palace with a key decision accuracy rate of 40% for the season and ended up reducing that to 36% by the end of the match.

Arsenal are still firmly on top of the yellow card table picking up more cards than any other side while needing to fewest fouls to get booked.

Martin Atkinson will take charge of his fourth Arsenal game of the season this weekend when he turns up at the Emirates on Sunday for the match against Crystal Palace.

Mike Dean didn’t even bother to check with VAR to see if Sokratis had been fouled to earn Arsenal a penalty so it’s no surprise he got such a bad match-rating.

Arsenal sit top of the yellow card table with more yellows than anyone else, a higher yellow-per-game rate than any other side while picking up yellows for fewer fouls than any other side in the Premier League.

On this week’s Daily Cannon Weekly podcast, episode 215, host Matthew Wade took some time to discuss the yellow cards stats an article on the site threw up after the game against Manchester United, showing how unfairly Arsenal are being treated.

Martin Atkinson will take charge of Arsenal’s game on Sunday against Bournemouth so we can expect the Cherries to kick with impunity.

As I was browsing some stats this morning I couldn’t help notice Arsenal’s yellow card count in the league this season and wondered how it stacked up against other teams. It’s safe to say I was astounded by what I found.