The Serie A Table without Refereeing Errors

By: Francesco | March 5th, 2009

So yesterday I was browsing around Italian Goal.com (the only version of goal.com worth reading since they just post articles from other sources instead of making stuff up like the english version), and I came across this article. It’s almost every week that we constantly hear complaints from all teams about referee errors. Many blame head of referees Pierluigi Collina for putting together such a young group of inexperienced referees, while other just blame the referees for having a fear of making calls against the big sides. So the Observatory of Refereeing Errors (who knew that even existed?) in collaboration with Adiconsum came up with an idea. They created a Serie A table where points gained from referee errors were taken away to see who has taken most advantage of these situations. According to the Observatory, there have been 163 referee errors so far which have led to 171 points being in question because of these errors. And even though Mourinho keeps saying other teams are favored by referees, the study shows that Inter have in fact taken the most advantage of these errors. Serie A table after the jump.

So here is the Serie A table with points from referee errors taken away. Milan would actually be in first place, with Fiorentina 2 points behind in second. Juventus would be third, and Inter would fall to 4th place. In the middle of the table Udinese would improve to 8th, while Lazio would fall down the table. Sampdoria would improve their current position, Bologna would remain even, and Reggina would escape last place and improve to third from last and fighting for safety:

1a: Milan 53 +5
2a: Fiorentina 51 +5
3a: Juventus 50 -3
4a: Inter 49 -11
5a: Genoa 46 +1
6a: Roma 45 +1
7a: Cagliari 40 +2
8a: Udinese 40 +6
9a: Palermo 39 +3
10a: Napoli 39 +4
11a: Lazio 39 +1
12a: Sampdoria 36 +4
13a: Atalanta 35 -1
14a: Catania 33 =
15a: Siena 31 +3
16a: Torino 24 =
17a: Bologna 23 =
18a: Reggina 23 +5
19a: Lecce 18 -4
20a: Chievo 17 -6

Compare that to the current Serie A table:

1. Inter 60
2. Juventus 53
3. Milan 48
4. Fiorentina 46
5. Genoa 45
6. Roma 44
7. Cagliari 38
8. Lazio 38
9. Atalanta 36
10. Palermo 36
11. Napoli 35
12. Udinese 34
13. Catania 33
14. Sampdoria 32
15. Siena 28
16. Torino 24
17. Bologna 23
18. Chievo 23
19. Lecce 22
20. Reggina 18