Alan Wiley - Burntwood
Not only is Alan Wiley a referee, but the 43-year-old also earns his living as a part-time policeman which should endear him to the Premiership League crowds.
Making his Premiership debut in the 2000/01 season, Wiley kept a low profile and avoided any controversial decisions.
He worked his way up the through local leagues to the Football League in 1991, joined the Premiership League list as a linesman in 1994 before, one year later, becoming a fully-fledged top-flight ref.
Ref Wiley may be having a mid-life crisis as he has changed from an average performance in terms of dishing out cards in 2002/2003 to being one of the top in 2003/2004. The change appeared to be that he became a lot less understanding as he whistled less but issued nearly twice as many yellows. Last season he appeared to be quite even-handed between home and away teams but still upset a number of managers including Alex Ferguson and Kevin Keegan.
To be fair Ref Wiley has been one of the better refs to look after Fulham in recent times unfortunately he has not been a lucky ref for Fulham as in his 10 officiations Fulham have won 2, drawn 3 and lost 5.
2003/2004
28-02-2004 Premiership Fulham
1-1 Man Utd 4y 0r
Bookings: Davis (Fulham) Brown, Forlan, van Nistelrooy (Man Utd)
The game where Saha returned to Fulham getting a draw for Man Utd, van der Sar appeared to stick out his arm and send Saha tumbling to the turf in the box but Ref Wiley decided nothing wrong had happened, O'Shea also escaped penalisation when he pulled McBride down just outside the box and van Nistelrooy got booked for coming on to the pitch, off the subs bench, to join in a spot of aggro.24-11-2003 Premiership Fulham
2-0 Portsmouth 3y 1r
Bookings: Schemmel, Sherwood, Stone, Berger (sent off 82)(Portsmouth)
2002/2003
12-04-2003 Premiership Liverpool
2-0 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Heskey (Liverpool) Boa Morte, Wome (Fulham)
11-01-2003 Premiership Bolton
0-0 Fulham 3 0
Bookings: Charlton (Bolton) Finnan, Sava (Fulham)
Facundo Sava found the net for Fulham but his effort was wrongly ruled out for a non-existent infringement. 21-12-2002 Premiership Newcastle
2-0 Fulham 2 1
Bookings: Brevett, Van der Sar Wome (sent off 66)
(Fulham)
Pierre Wome was dismissed for a bad challenge on Andy Griffin in the 66th minute.
17-08-2002 Premiership Fulham
4-1 Bolton 3 0
Bookings: Melville (Fulham) Mendy, N'Gotty (Bolton)
Ref Wiley immediately pointed to the spot when French international Youri Djorkaeff was clumsily challenged by Cottagers centre-back Alain Goma and Michael Ricketts sent Edwin van der Sar the wrong way.
2001/2002
08-04-2002 Premiership Newcastle
1-1 Fulham 1 0
Bookings: Robert (Newcastle)
02-03-2002 Premiership Fulham
0-2 Liverpool 5 0
Bookings: Boa Morte, Brevett, Legwinski (Fulham) Hyypia, Wright (Liverpool)
Fulham thought they should have been awarded a penalty two minutes after the interval when Luis Boa Morte went down under a challenge from Xavier.
But instead of pointing to the spot, referee Wiley booked the Portuguese international for diving, to the fury of the home fans. At the time it seemed a poor decision as Xavier had been leaning on Boa Morte with his left arm. With the aid of t.v. footage it was clear that a penalty should have been given but Wiley choose to let the decision stand rather than withdraw the caution.
30-01-2002 Premiership Ipswich
1-0 Fulham 3 0
Bookings: McGreal (Ipswich) Finnan, Goma (Fulham)
15-09-2001 Premiership Fulham
1-3 Arsenal 7 0
Bookings: Boa Morte, Legwinski, Symons (Fulham) Keown, Lauren, Parlour, Vieira (Arsenal)
2000/2001
02-12-2000 Division 1 Preston
1-1 Fulham 5 0
Bookings: McKenna, Rankine (Preston) Boa Morte, Brevett, Saha (Fulham)