Referee Mike Riley- Leeds, West Yorkshire
Mike Riley was the Premiership's youngest referee in 1999/2000. Riley, who is a finance director by profession, began refereeing in 1980 and joined the Football League roster in 1994. The Premiership beckoned in 1996 and by 1999 he was on the official FIFA list. The 1996 Youth Cup was his first taste of officiating a high profile final. He took charge of the 2001 Charity Shield and 2002 Cup Final. During the 2002/2003 season Mr Riley gave 8 penalties, 7 of them were in favour of Man Utd. He had officiated at 5 Man U games giving penalties in all of them including two games where he gave two penalties to the Mancunians. How unfortunate! In the 2003/2004 season Ref Wiley only gave two penalties, neither to Man Utd, and officiated at the 3-1 thrashing of Man U by Fulham without giving a penalty to either squad, so he has gone some way to redeem himself. Unfortunately for Ref Riley early last season somebody thought it would be a good idea if he looked after another Man U game, this time against Arsenal, and we know what happened that day.Mr Riley has reffed 8 Fulham games in the Premiership in those 8 games he has sent off two Fulham players, Luis Boa Morte and Ian Pearce and The Cottagers have won just 2 of the 8. It could have been 3 out of 9 if he had not needed to call off the first attempt to play this fixture.

Referee Stats - 2005/2006
Ref Riley is the busiest ref in the Premiership blowing his whistle an average of 32 times per game. He is also the keenest card issuer averaging just over 4 cards a game. In terms of red cards he is also one of the busiest dishing out one every four games on average.Ref Riley seems to have gone back on an early season effort to reduce his number of penalty decisions and is now up with the busiest.	Mr. Riley's Av Premiership Ref Total Match Avg Total Match Avg Games 26   17   Fouls 820 31.5 460 26.4 Yellows 104 4.0 54 3.1 Reds 7 0.3 3 0.2 Penalties 7 0.3 3 0.2 Fouls per Yellow - 7.9 - 8.6
Homer? (2005-2006) Total Home Away Total Games Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen 26 415 40 3 4 405 64 4 3 820 104 7 7   51% 38% 43% 57% 49% 62% 57% 43%         Premiership Average 17 49% 42% 33% 64% 51% 58% 67% 36% 460 54 3 3	Ref Riley is fairly evenhanded as far as fouls concerned but as far as yellows are concerned he loves to wack the away teams.Hopefully the weather will stay fine for Ref Riley's visit to Sunderland.

Previous Fulham games what was refed by Mike Riley

2005/2006

31-12-2005 Premiership Portsmouth 1-0 Fulham 3y 0r Bookings: Karadas (Portsmouth) Bocanegra, Rosenior (Fulham)

17-10-2005 Premiership Charlton 1-1 Fulham 4y 0r Bookings: Kishishev (Charlton) Christanval, Malbranque, Volz (Fulham)

27-08-2005 Premiership Fulham 1-0 Everton 3y 1r Bookings: Malbranque (Fulham) Neville (sent off 90 snd yel), Weir (Everton)

2004/2005

04-10-2004 Premiership C Palace 2-0 Fulham 2y 1r Bookings: Johnson (C Palace) Bocanegra, Pearce (sent off 6) (Fulham) The one when Ian Pearce was sent off just five minutes into the match for pulling back Johnson, when the Palace striker was clean through on goal, and the red card saw Coleman's side under the cosh for the rest of the match. 10-11-2004 League Cup Nottm Forest 2-4 Fulham 6y 0r Bookings: Dawson, Evans, Perch, Thompson (Nottm Forest) Cole, Volz (Fulham)

2003/2004

03-04-2004 Premiership Fulham 0-0 Birmingham 6y 0r Bookings: Boa Morte, Davis, Djetou, Malbranque (Fulham) Savage ,Upson (Birmingham)24-02-2004 FA Cup West Ham 0-3 Fulham 1y 0 r Bookings: Horlock (West Ham)20-12-2003 Premiership Fulham 0-1 Chelsea 5y 0r Bookings: Clark, Saha (Fulham) Gronkjaer, Joe Cole, Johnson (Chelsea)25-10-2003 Premiership Man Utd 1-3 Fulham 5y 0r Bookings: Djemba-Djemba, Forlan, Fortune, Giggs (Man Utd) Knight (Fulham)

2001/2002

21-10-2001 Premiership Fulham 1-1 Ipswich 5y 1r Bookings: Boa Morte, Boa Morte (sent off 45), Legwinski (Fulham) Armstrong, Peralta, Wilnis (Ipswich) Ref Riley wrongly sent Boa Morte off for diving despite there being a clear block by Hreidarsson and helped The Cottagers to lose 2 points.

2000/2001

10-03-2001 Division 1 Fulham 2-0 QPR 2y 0r Bookings: Baraclough, Crouch (QPR)

1999/2000

20-11-1999 Division 1 Blackburn 2-0 Fulham 7y 1r Bookings: Grayson, Ward (Blackburn) Clark, Coleman, Hayward, Horsfield, Symons, Cadamarteri (sent off 84)(Fulham)

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