Mark Halsey - Bolton, Lancashire
Mark Halsey enjoyed a fairly meteoric rise to the Premiership League referees list having only taken up the profession in the 1988/89 season. The 41-year-old self-employed driver -or white van man - caught the refereeing bug in the Hertfordshire County League, before joining the football league as a linesman in 1993.
Halsey came into the Premiership with a reputation as a lover of injury time. He was in charge of the 1998/99 Division Two play-off final in which Manchester City scored in the 95th minute to equalise with Gillingham, before winning the match on penalties.
After Halsey's disgraceful behaviour in 2004 Arsenal game it is hard to believe he has been appointed to this game. He will not be welcomed by Fulham fans.
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Referee Stats -2005/2006
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| Ref Halsey's figures shows that he whistles less than the average Premiership Ref and also dishes out less yellows, however he is keen on penalties topping the list last season. |
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Mr. Halsey's |
Av Premiership Ref |
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Total |
Match Avg |
Total |
Match Avg |
| Games |
20 |
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18 |
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| Fouls |
454 |
22.7 |
465 |
26.4 |
| Yellows |
36 |
1.8 |
54 |
3.1 |
| Reds |
5 |
0.3 |
3 |
0.2 |
| Penalties |
2 |
0.1 |
3 |
0.2 |
| Fouls per Yellow |
- |
12.6 |
- |
8.5 |
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| Homer? (2005-2006) |
| Total |
Home |
Away |
Total |
| Games |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
| 20 |
217 |
13 |
2 |
2 |
237 |
23 |
3 |
0 |
454 |
36 |
5 |
2 |
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48% |
36% |
40% |
100% |
52% |
64% |
60% |
0% |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Premiership Average |
| 18 |
49% |
42% |
33% |
64% |
51% |
58% |
67% |
36% |
465 |
54 |
3 |
3 |
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Ref Halsey is a good old fashioned Homer and seems not to mind what his stats show. He was the third best Homer last season and this season he has moved on to be the best Homer. Unless of course it is Fulham against Arsenal at The Cottage.Best of luck on Sunday Mr Halsey. |
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Previous Fulham games what was reffed by Mark Halsey
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11-09-2004 Premiership Fulham 0-3 Arsenal 4y 0r
Bookings: Legwinski, Van der Sar (Fulham) Fabregas, Vieira (Arsenal)
The one that included the most infamous refereeing controversy to occur at Craven Cottage in living memory. Andrew Cole was brought down in the penalty area and Ref Halsey blew his whistle and pointed to the spot. After being surrounded by Arsenal players he went through the motions of speaking to the lino and cancelled the penalty. As anyone who was there will remember there was absolute pandemonium. However Ref Halsey stuck to his second decision and later created additional upset by disallowing a goal by Collins John.All this took place before Arsenal had scored and would have put Fulham 2-0 up at half-time. It also led on to the battle with West Brom as Fulham players tried to copy Arsenal. |
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19-01-2003 Premiership Fulham 1-0 Middlesbro 1y 0r
Bookings: Southgate (Middlesbro)
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04-12-2002 League Cup Wigan 2-1 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Djetou , Inamoto , Ouaddou (Fulham) |
27-10-2002 Premiership Southampton 4-2 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Michael Svensson (Southampton) Boa Morte , Goma (Fulham) |
11-09-2002 Premiership Fulham 3-2 Tottenham 1y 0r
Bookings: Thatcher (Tottenham)
This is the game where the linesman on the Ellerslie Road (remember the time of exile at QPR) side had a shocker allowing two Spurs goals despite offsides and fouls
but redeemed himself by insisting on giving a justifiable penalty to Fulham against the initial wishes of Halsey. |
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01-04-2002 Premiership Fulham 0-1 West Ham 2y 0r
Bookings: Finnan (Fulham) Dailly (West Ham) |
09-02-2002 Premiership Fulham 2-0 Blackburn 5y 1r
Bookings: Malbranque , Marlet , Melville (Fulham) Neill , Tugay, Sent Off: Short (Blackburn) |
29-11-2001 League Cup Fulham 1-2 Tottenham 2y 0r
Bookings: Bunjevcevic , Ziege (Tottenham)
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