Andy D'urso was previously a 38-year-old bank manager from Essex by trade, but in keeping with the recent trend has abandoned his previous profession in favour of full-time refereeing.

He is one of the Premiership's youngest referees and was appointed to the Premiership list five seasons ago, but soon received a welcome from Manchester United's Roy Keane. It was D'urso who was famously chased round the pitch by half the United team when he awarded a penalty against them during the 1999/2000 season.

That controversy returned at the start of 2001/02 when he failed to award Manchester United two penalties in the Charity Shield against Liverpool.

He has been on the Football League list since 1994 and began officiating back in 1979.

Referee Stats - 2004/2005
Ref D'Urso is blowing his whistle just a bit less than the average Ref but that is still nearly every 4 minutes. When it comes to cards and pens he is keener than other refs. His red card rate is twice the average rate with a red every other game.Hopefully he can keep count of who he gives a card to ;) Mr Rennie is the top whistling with Mr Messias topping the yellow card issuer list at the moment.	Mr. D'Urso's Av Premiership Ref Total Match Avg Total Match Avg Games 7 11 Fouls 176 25.14 282 25.94 Yellows 20 2.86 27 2.53 Reds 3 0.43 1.5 0.14 Penalties 2 0.29 2 0.19 Fouls per Yellow - 8.8 - 10.3
Homer? (2004-2005) Total Home Away Total Games Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen 7 65 5 2 2 111 15 1 0 176 20 3 2   37% 25% 67% 100% 63% 75% 33% 0% - - - - Premiership Average 11 48% 40% 35% 60% 52% 60% 65% 40% 282 27 1 2	Analysis of Ref D'Urso's figures show him to have a clear bias against away teams.Along with Mr Foy he is the most biased ref in the Premiership.

Mr. D'urso's meetings with Fulham

2004/2005
08-01-2005 FA Cup Watford 1-1 Fulham 1y 0r 2003/2004
08-11-2003 Premiership Charlton 3-1 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Perry (Charlton) Inamoto, Legwinski (Fulham) 2002/2003
15-12-2002 Premiership Fulham 0-1 Birmingham 10y 1r
Bookings: Brevett, Clark, Malbranque (Fulham) Cisse, Horsfield, Johnson, Kirovski, Powell, Purse(sent off 70), Tebily (Birmingham)
Andy D'Urso raised questions about his refereeing rationale by handing out a total of 11 bookings. There were two for Purse, six for other visiting players and three for the home side. 09-11-2002 Premiership Aston Villa 3-1 Fulham 5y 0r
Bookings: Allback, Leonhardsen, Taylor (Aston Villa) Boa Morte, Melville (Fulham) 2001/2002
27-10-2001 Premiership Fulham 2-1 Southampton 2y 0r
Bookings: Beattie, Oakley (Southampton)
1999/2000
03-01-2000 English Division 1 Fulham 1-0 Tranmere 5r 1r
Bookings: Morgan, Peschisolido (Fulham) Challinor, Hill, Morgan Roberts (sent off 86) (Tranmere)