Anthony Taylor (Manchester City vs Wigan Athletic)

Manchester City 1-2 Wigan Athletic

Referee: Anthony Taylor

Assistant 1: Darren Cann

Assistant 2: Marc Perry

4th Official: Kevin Friend

TRR Assessor: James Anderson
Date: 9/3/14
Venue: Ethiad Stadium
Kick Off:  4.05pm
Competition: FA Cup
Match Difficulty: Normal 

THE REFEREE

Foul Detection

GOOD 

Taylor's foul detection was generally very good. He identified what was a foul and needing dealing with or when he could play advantage. Taylor was correct for the penalty which led to Wigan's 1st goal. Taylor was also correct not to award Manchester City a penalty.





Positioning

EXCELLENT 

Taylor's positioning was superb throughout. He was in an excellent position to correctly award Wigan a penalty a goal throughout the first half. This made his decision credible and led to not to much complaint from the Man City side. Taylor was also in a great position to not award Man City a penalty in the 2nd half.

Man Management

 SATISFACTORY 

I felt that Taylor's man management at times wasn't very good. In the first half he let Manchester City's number 42 to get away with berating Taylor when he didn't agree with a decision. Although the player was Manchester City's captain, I think if he had called him over and told him to cut it out it would of helped him.

Card Issuing

EXCELLENT 

Taylor had 7 yellow cards in the game. There wasn't much complaint for any of them. There was four for Manchester City and three for Wigan.

Fitness

EXCELLENT

Taylor's fitness led to him being in great positions throughout the game. I believe this is one of Taylor's strongest aspects of his refereeing as he can never be moaned at for being 'to far away from play'. 

THE ASSISTANT REFEREES

Assistant 1 - EXCELLENT  [9.0]
Assistant 2 - EXCELLENT  [9.0]

Both assistant's supported Anthony Taylor very well and helped with free kicks in and around them. 



OVERALL

VERY GOOD 

SCORE

8/10