Leicester City in the Premier League prior to Howard Webb selecting match officials:
4 wins 7 draws 18 losses
Penalty differentials: 2 in favour 3 against
Red Card differentials: 2 in favour 2 against
Leicester City in the Premier League since Howard Webb selects match officials:
22 wins 9 draws 3 losses
Penalty differentials: 9 in favour 1 against
Red Card differentials: 4 in favour 0 against
This breakpoint did not occur in the summer when Claudio Ranieri became manager but from the very first round of matches when Webb selected the officials - Mark Clattenburg (who had given Leicester two penalties plus a red card against Man Utd earlier in the season) being chosen for the West Ham match which started the run of 7 wins 1 draw and 1 loss in final 9 games of last season.
Additionally, this season Leicester City have the third worst possession stats in the Premier League.
Leicester City also have the lowest pass completion rate in the Premier League and the fifth worst in the top five European leagues (98 teams).
So they hardly ever have the ball...
... and when they do have it, they can't pass straight.
And yet Leicester City are going to win the Premier League title.
How?
In 25 years of recording data on the top European leagues, there has never been a team even remotely as favoured by referees as Leicester City have been this season.
21 referees have officiated in the Premier League in the last two seasons.
The following officials have not refereed any Leicester City games since Webb took over - Attwell, Friend, Hooper, R. Madley, A. Madley, Scott, Stroud, Dowd and Foy (although Foy has now retired).
All Leicester City games have been shared around the other 12 officials.
Why?
Taylor and Dean have been given four games each - resulting in 8 victories for Leicester City - and Jonathan Moss has overseen 5 wins in his five appearances as referee or 4th official.
It also needs to be explained how Leicester City, whose players unusually are given two full days off every week (more than any other team), are able to have three players (one of whom is 29 years old) in the top four fastest sprints in the EPL this season.
Leicester City train less but run fastest!
How?
Moreover, Leicester City were the least fit Premier League side last season prior to this conspiracy being established.
How have they moved from the least fit to the fastest?
Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Southampton, West Ham, Everton and Liverpool have reasons for a protest against this systemic uproar impacting upon their EPL title, Champions League or Europa League chances.
Jose Mourinho, Chelsea, Gestifute and Jorge Mendes also have a claim after the same grouping of referees targeted the club until Mourinho was sacked.
At the same time as Chelsea experienced 8 defeats and 3 draws in 14 games with the Dirty Dozen referees, they inexplicably won 4 out of 6 Champions League games to finish top of their group.
And take Jamie Vardy.
Prior to Webb selecting match officials Vardy had scored 2 goals in 25 Premier League games...
... and since Webb took on responsibilities, our speedy friend has scored 21 goals in 34 games.
In good time, we will release our analyses of the refereeing of the defences marking Vardy in this latter window.
It should be noted that Webb allegedly gave up selecting pgMOB referees in the summer when signing his contract with BT Sport but, in reality, #################################
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A number of BBC Match of the Day and BT Sport insiders have considerable trading positions (at up 5,000-1 outright) on the Foxes winning the title and/or finishing in the Champions League places.
These are good markets to be in when BT Sport's resident referee is, of course...
... Howard Webb.
But BT Sport's Michael Owen (horserace owner, professional gambler and former bookies' runner for the England team) helps to put our minds at ease by informing us that matchfixing "is not a huge issue... When someone says matchfixing to me, I automatically think of 22 players fixing the result... but [it] is not necessarily people colluding at the highest levels to rig games."
Or listen to BT Sport and Leicester City ambassador Gary Lineker: "It could quite possibly be the greatest sporting upset of all time if Leicester won the Premier League from where they were a year ago. It's a quite staggering story."
It certainly is.
But not a Hollywood feelgood movie.
Not a fairy tale.
But something altogether more murky.
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