Whilst you can’t sy that Everton would definately have finished higher than Liverpool had the GOAL related decisions gone for them, you can see that the “Decisions even themselves out” myth doesn’t hold water for them or most other teams in the league.

Any football fan worth his / her salt has had passionate arguments about dodgy decisions for / against their teams, all RR has done is to store those arguments week byt week and create a table.

The Livepool fans, for example, are you saying none of you were complaining, and thinking where’d you be with 2 extra points when Chelsea got that “ghost” penalty against you at the start of the season? Again to use Everton as an example it is unlikely that Blackburn would have equalised had AJ’s goal stood in that game as it was the dying seconds and Everton have the best defence in the Pl in 2008, similarly had Everton gone 2-0 up against West Ham in the 12th minute at Goodison it is far more likely that they would have gone on to win by an even bigger margin, than it was Everton would concede 2 goals, for the 1st time in over 3 months.

Take it for what it is, and look at it logically, unless you really never do discuss dodgy decisions?

“hand of God” anyone?

Hopefully within the next two years we’ll have hawkeye for goalline decisions and perhaps an appeals system like in tennis for cards, penalties etc, where you only get a certain number and you can only use them if the referee has already stopped play.

Oh, come on… That was *blatantly* handball – just watch the defender’s next three steps and tell me he doesn’t look just like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Otherwise, it would be a 50-50 – because of that reaction, though, it’s unthinkable to suggest the ref could give any other decision.

here are some reminders!!!!
> during the blackburn game, we shud have had 3 penalties-ref was demoted to second division game because he messed up

> CHelsea got penalty against us…for ball to hand…not hand to ball…this was not penalty in previosu cfc games against them

> As soon as ronaldo came on we were attacking a corner and john terry was all over ronaldo, ronaldo beat him and terry was holding him back, pushing him!!! This is shocking.shud have been a penalty for us

>FA CUP game against portsmouth was destroyed because players became frustrated with ref – The game was decided by the decision not to give us a penalty

NEED I CONTINUEEE?

And this table is just the same. Just because one goal never stood, or did stand when it shouldn’t, doesn’t meant the match wouldn’t have had the same outcome… OK a goal is not given, who is to say that team simply score 15 minutes later? Just because they didn’t in reality, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t of, if the goal was cancelled out?

The table is an interesting conversational point, but nothing more, mathematics as with football is far more complex than that.

My web site does the same thing for the Champions League starting with the 2005 – 06 season. The coincidence is a bit too much.

FF