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Ref Foy to boss Fulham v Birmingham game
(30/04/2008 22:41:27)
Christopher Foy - St Helens, Merseyside
Referee Foy wanted to be a professional footballer but wasn't up to it so he decided to become a ref. He is finding it enjoyable as "for the first time I am being paid for something I love to do."
Ex-Lancashire policeman Foy started refereeing in 1983, became a Football League referee in 1994 and after making the referee list in 1996 graduated to the Barclaycard Premiership roster in 2001.
Foy is now in his seventh season as a Premiership League referee and is confident enough to believe that ref's get 99.9% of their decisions correct. Ref Foy is up for his second outing with Fulham this season, the first being our 2-1
home win against Aston Villa, and so far, over the seasons, there have been no major errors to be held against him, from a Fulham point of view.
He has reffed nine Fulham Premiership games and we have won 4, drawn 3 and lost 2 while receiving 12 yellows and 1 red against 17 yellows and 1 red for our opponents. A
word of warning for our team is that up to this season any player carded by Mr Foy does
not last long much longer at Craven Cottage.
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Referee Stats - 2007/2008 |
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Ref Foy works hard to avoid being the story as they say so we should not see
too many controversial decisions on Saturday against Birmingham.
This season his whistle is being less used but his yellow card count is at
a career high. He is continuing his efforts to top the red card leader board but
has been less keen to award a penalty.
So deceptively calm with fouls and yellows but tempted to lash out with a red.
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Mr. Foy's |
Av Premiership Ref |
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Total |
Match Avg |
Pos |
Total |
Match Avg |
| Games |
20 |
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19 |
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| Fouls |
468 |
23.4 |
12th |
464 |
24.5 |
| Yellows |
62 |
3.1 |
11th |
61 |
3.2 |
| Reds |
5 |
0.3 |
5th |
3 |
0.2 |
| Penalties |
4 |
0.2 |
9th |
4 |
0.2 |
| Fouls per Yellow |
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7.5 |
9th |
- |
7.6 |
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| Homer? (2007-2008) |
| Total |
Home |
Away |
Total |
| Games |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
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20 |
205 |
27 |
1 |
3 |
263 |
35 |
4 |
1 |
468 |
62 |
5 |
4 |
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44% |
44% |
20% |
75% |
56% |
56% |
80% |
25% |
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| Premiership Average |
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19 |
49% |
42% |
51% |
65% |
51% |
58% |
49% |
35% |
464 |
61 |
3 |
4 |
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Ref Foy is slightly below average in awarding yellow cards to visiting squads this season.
However he likes to disrupt away squads efforts more than the average and if
anyone is to get a red you can bank on it being a visitor.
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Previous Fulham games what was refed by Christopher Foy
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03-02-2008 Premier Fulham
2-1 Aston Villa 3y 0y
Bookings: Davies (Fulham) Bouma, Davies (Aston Villa)
First win for Roy Hodgson, first goal for Jimmy Bullard after return from a season
out injured, a magnificent free kick, first game for Brian McBride in 6 months
and Fulham's first win in 15 games. |
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23-12-2006 Premier Fulham
0-0 West Ham 3y 13
Bookings: Helguson, (Fulham) Reo-Coker, Spector, Konchesky (sent off 85), (West Ham)
The game Zat Knight had to miss because his baby bro broke his jaw!!
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21-10-2006 Premier Aston Villa
1-1 Fulham 2y 0r
Bookings: Knight, Queudrue (Fulham)
Good game for Ref Foy who gave one pen to Villa when it could have been two and let Michael Brown off when he was a bit free with a flailing arm. |
09-09-2006 Premier Newcastle 1-2 Fulham 2y 0r
Bookings: Emre (Newcastle) Brown (Fulham)
The game in which Jimmy Bullard was put out for the season by Scott Parker |
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01-04-2006 Premiership Fulham 1-3 Portsmouth 4y 1r
Bookings: Helguson, Malbranque, Brown (sent off 74)(Fulham) O'Neil, Pedro Mendes (Portsmouth)
Fulham were still coming down after beating Chelsea and were all at sea. Brown put the boot in on Davis and Foy sent him off. |
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02-02-2005 Premiership Fulham 1-1 Aston Villa 4y 0r
Bookings: Boa Morte (Fulham) Angel, Davis, De la Cruz (Aston Villa)
The one with three missed penalties, two of which were doubtful decisions. |
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04-10-2003 Premiership Fulham 2-0 Leicester
Bookings: Goma, Knight (Fulham) Impey (Leicester)
Ref Foy made numerous petty and hard to understand decisions during the game, a number were against Fulham in dangerous areas around the penalty area. Fortunately Leicester were so poor that they were not able to take advantage of Foy's generousity. |
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14-09-2002 Premiership Sunderland 0-3 Fulham 4y 0r
Bookings: Gray, Wright (Sunderland) Brevett, Hayles (Fulham) |
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11-05-2002 Premiership Blackburn 3-0 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Dunn, Neill, Tugay (Blackburn) |
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11-11-2000 Division 1 Wimbledon 0-3 Fulham 2y 0r
Bookings: Andersen (Wimbledon) Brevett (Fulham) |
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05-02-2000 Division 1 Fulham 1-0 West Brom 5y 0r
Bookings: Ball, Melville (Fulham) Carbon, Hughes, Sigurdsson (West Brom) 10-08-1999 League Cup Northampton 1-2 Fulham 3y 0r
Bookings: Sampson (Northampton) Hughes, Sean Davis (Fulham) |
(Source = Fulhamweb) |
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