Alan Wiley - Burntwood
Not only is Alan Wiley a referee, but the 41-year-old also earns his living as a part-time policeman which should endear him to the Premier League crowds.
Making his Premiership debut in the 2000/01 season, Wiley kept a low profile and avoided any controversial decisions.
He recalls how he made the decision to pick up a whistle and notebook.
"While watching I was like any other supporter, I used to shout at the referee, then one day my father said, 'well if you think you can do any better, why don't you have a go?' 'I took a referees course, started in youth football moved on to open age adult football and it all progressed from there.'
He then worked his way up the through local leagues to the Football League in 1991, joined the Premier 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 last season to being one of the top this season. The change appears to be that he is a lot less understanding as he is whistling less than last year but issuing nearly twice as many yellows. Fortunately he appears to be quite evenhanded between home and away teams.
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Referee Stats - 2003/2004
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Ref Wiley may be having a mid-life crisis as he has changed from a below average performance last season in terms of dishing out cards to being one of the top this season. The change appears to be that he is a lot less understanding as he is whistling less than last year but issuing nearly 50% as many yellows.
Mr Rennie is currantly the most disruptive ref blowing his whistle an average of 29.3 times a game. Mr Wiley gives the most yellows per game averaging 4 per outing. |
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Mr. Wiley's |
Av Premiership Ref |
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Total |
Match Avg |
Total |
Match Avg |
| Games |
14 |
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12 |
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| Fouls |
365 |
26.07 |
306 |
26.07 |
| Yellows |
56 |
4.00 |
36 |
3.09 |
| Reds |
2 |
0.14 |
2 |
0.17 |
| Penalties |
2 |
0.14 |
2 |
0.16 |
| Fouls per Yellow |
- |
6.52 |
- |
8.45 |
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| Homer? (2003-2004) |
| Total |
Home |
Away |
Total |
| Games |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
| 14 |
176 |
28 |
0 |
189 |
28 |
2 |
365 |
56 |
2 |
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48% |
50% |
0% |
52% |
50% |
100% |
- |
- |
- |
| Premiership Average |
| 12 |
49% |
45% |
40% |
51% |
55% |
60% |
306 |
36 |
2 |
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Ref Wiley one of the two Premiership ref's who have managed to evenly split their yellows between home and away squads. A query against him is that his two penalty decisions have been in favour of away squads.
Ref Winter is still leading the worst homer league with 76% of his yellows going to away squads although he judges them to be responsible for just 52% of the fouls. |
Ref Wiley has only officiated at a Fulham game once so far this season. 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
24-11-2003 Premier Fulham 2-0 Portsmouth 3y 1r
Bookings: Schemmel, Sherwood, Stone, Berger (sent off 82)(Portsmouth)
2002/2003
12-04-2003 Premier Liverpool 2-0 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Heskey (Liverpool) Boa Morte, Wome (Fulham)
11-01-2003 Premier 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-existant infringement.
21-12-2002 Premier 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 Premier 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 Premier Newcastle 1-1 Fulham 1 0
Bookings: Robert (Newcastle)
02-03-2002 Premier 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 Premier Ipswich 1-0 Fulham 3 0
Bookings: McGreal (Ipswich) Finnan, Goma (Fulham)
15-09-2001 Premier 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)