Fulham bashing by referees continues. Referee Frankland oversaw our game with Sheffield United and couldn't see a punch up, extreme time wasting and persistent dangerous play but could see 17 Fulham fouls and 20 Sheffield United fouls. United must find it hard to believe that their kamikaze tackling tactics, punch ups and the rest finished with them being penalised just three more times than Fulham.

	The above data represents the cumulative average number of fouls per yellow cards for Fulham, the Division One average and the average for Fulham's 5 promotion rivals. The figures cover a 14 week period starting on the 6th November 2000 and the source is the Nationwide Fairplay League

On the plus side Ref Frankland dished out just two yellows to Fulham players for the 17 fouls, our second highest tally this season, and pulled our cumulative fouls per yellow average up from 4.9 fouls per yellow to 5.1. Unfortunately this still leaves Fulham with the highest number of yellow cards per foul ratio in English football and it is now hard to see how the bias against Fulham can be corrected within 16 games without even more laughable refereeing performances than Mr Frankland's.

As can be seen in the graphic the current situation is that since the start of the season on average Fulham have received a yellow card every 5.1 fouls against a Division One average of 7.8 and an average for our promotion rivals of 8.6. That means that our players have received 19 yellows more than the divisional average and 22 more than our promotion rivals average. Sounds fair!!!