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Ref Wiley to boss Chelsea v Fulham

last updated Friday 01st May 2009, 9:34 AM
Alan Wiley - Burntwood, Staffordshire.
Referee Alan WileyNot only is Alan Wiley a referee, but is also 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 becoming a fully-fledged top-flight ref.

Ref Wiley has been one of the better refs to look after Fulham in recent times unfortunately for him many of his games have been away fixtures. In his 23 officiations in Premiership games Fulham have won 7, drawn 5 and lost 11. 12 of his 23 games were away fixtures and, of course, we are not known for our courage on the road. Of the 12 away games Fulham have won one, drawn 2 and lost 9. That means of course that of the 11 home games we have won 6, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Ref Wiley has issued 63 yellows in the 23 games with 30 going to Fulham players. There have been just 3 red cards with only one going to a Fulham player, surprisingly a certain Mr Wome :-) Only one of our current squad has been carded by Mr Wiley and that lucky chap is Bobby Zamora.

Mr Wiley has bossed Fulham against Chelsea once back in April 2005 (match report).

Referee Stats - 2008/2009

Ref Wiley is blowing his whistle slightly more than his Premiership referee mates but when he whistles he is less likely to give a yellow card.

In fact so far this season he is less busier than in recent seasons.

Ref Wiley is also below average in terms of red cards and penalty decisions again this season. Someone must have spoken to him about penalties after the 06/07 season when he gave 13 penalties.

Mr. Wiley's Av Premiership Ref
Total Match Avg Pos Total Match Avg
Games 24     19  
Fouls 576 24.0 8th 444 23.6
Yellows 70 2.9 14th 61 3.2
Reds 2 0.1 14th 3 0.2
Penalties 2 0.1 14th 3 0.2
Fouls per Yellow - 8.2 14th - 7.3
Homer? (2008-2009)
Total Home Away Total
Games Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen
24 278 31 1 2 298 39 1 0 576 70 2 2
48% 44% 50% 100% 52% 56% 50% 0% - - - -
Premiership Average
19 48% 43% 41 72% 52% 57% 55% 28% 444 61 3 3

Ref Wiley is just a little less biased against away teams than his mates.

To be fair to him Fulham players have been carded less than home players in away fixtures.

Previous Fulham games what was refed by Alan Wiley
2008/2009
31-01-2009 Premier Fulham 2-0 Portsmouth 1y 0r
Bookings: Mullins (Portsmouth)
Fulham had a good result and the ref had an easy day
15-11-2007 Premier Fulham 1-1 Tottenham 1y 0r
Bookings: Zamora (Fulham)
Enjoyable win that could have been bigger if Mr Wiley had given Fulham the benefit over a handball decision against King
2007/2008
22-03-2008 Premier Newcastle 2-0 Fulham 1y 0r
Bookings: Volz (Fulham)
Fulham remained deep in relegation mire with the miraculous escape still in the future
22-12-2007 Premier Fulham 1-1 Wigan 0y 0r
Bookings: None
The first game after the sacking of Lawrie Sanchez.
2006/2007
17-01-2006 FA Cup Fulham 4-3 Leicester 1y 0r
Bookings: Bocanegra (62,f) (Fulham)
The one when Montella came on to score twice in 10 mins to bring us level.
18-11-2006 Premiership Man City 3-1 Fulham 2y 0r
Bookings: Thatcher (Man City) Volz (Fulham)
23-08-2006 Premiership Fulham 1-1 Bolton 3y 0r
Bookings: Davies, Diouf, Nolan (Bolton)
After a run of quiet games Ref Wiley blotted his copybook with a questionable penalty decision in favour of Diouf of Bolton. Our boys were very angry with Wiley.
2005/2006
15-03-2006 Premiership Liverpool 5-1 Fulham 2y 0r
Bridge, Brown (Fulham)
14-01-2006 Premiership Fulham 1-0 Newcastle 3y 0r
Bookings: Legwinski (Fulham) Carr, Clark (Newcastle)
26-09-2005 Premiership Tottenham 1-0 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Diop, John, Knight (Fulham)
10-09-2005 Premiership Newcastle 1-1 Fulham 5y 1r
Bookings: Bowyer, Clark, Faye, Parker(sent off 83 second yellow), (Newcastle) Bocanegra (Fulham)
2004/2005
23-04-2005 Premiership Chelsea 3-1 Fulham 2y 0r
Bookings: Terry (Chelsea) John (Fulham)
04-12-2004 Premiership Norwich 0-1 Fulham 4y 0r
Bookings: Helveg (Norwich) Bocanegra, Cole, Volz (Fulham)
Against Norwich the Canaries' keeper trying to deal with a long ball into his area, under pressure from Volz, collected the ball on or near the ground. He then slid out of the area still holding the ball in clear view of linesman and Ref Wiley. No action was taken
30-10-2004 Premiership Fulham 2-0 Tottenham 1y 0r
Bookings: Bunjevcevic (Tottenham)
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 3y 0r
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 2y 1r
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 3y 0r
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 1y 0r
Bookings: Robert (Newcastle)

02-03-2002 Premiership Fulham 0-2 Liverpool 5y 0r
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 3y 0r
Bookings: McGreal (Ipswich) Finnan, Goma (Fulham)
15-09-2001 Premiership Fulham 1-3 Arsenal 7y 0r
Bookings: Boa Morte, Legwinski, Symons (Fulham) Keown, Lauren, Parlour, Vieira (Arsenal)
2000/2001
02-12-2000 Division 1 Preston 1-1 Fulham 5y 0r
Bookings: McKenna, Rankine (Preston) Boa Morte, Brevett, Saha (Fulham)
1999/2000
No games with Fulham
1998/1999
18-08-1998 League Cup Cardiff 1-2 Fulham 1y 0r
Bookings: Symons (Fulham)
1997/1998
10-01-1998 League One(Old Div 3) Wrexham 0-3 Fulham 5y 0r
Bookings: Wainwright ,Ward (Wrexham) Coleman, Freeman, Hayward (Fulham)
Source
Since 1998
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