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 first outing with Fulham this season 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 eight Fulham Premiership games and we have won 3, drawn 2 and lost 2 while receiving 12 yellows and 1 red against 14 yellows and 1 red for our opponents.
A
word of warning for our team is that any players carded by Mr Foy does
not last long 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 it is hard to see anything too controversial cropping up today. Last season his foul and yellow card count were below the average but he was above average on reds and pens. In fact he was second top pen awarder in the Premiership giving one every three games!!
Well he has adjusted that and the only top ten this season item is his rate of cards
per foul.
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Mr. Foy's |
Av Premiership Ref |
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Total |
Match Avg |
Pos |
Total |
Match Avg |
| Games |
13 |
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13 |
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| Fouls |
304 |
23.4 |
14th |
316 |
25.1 |
| Yellows |
43 |
3.3 |
12th |
42 |
3.3 |
| Reds |
1 |
0.1 |
10th |
2 |
0.2 |
| Penalties |
2 |
0.2 |
13th |
3 |
0.2 |
| Fouls per Yellow |
- |
7.1 |
6th |
- |
7.5 |
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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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13 |
135 |
16 |
0 |
2 |
169 |
27 |
1 |
0 |
304 |
43 |
1 |
2 |
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44% |
37% |
0% |
100% |
56% |
63% |
100% |
0% |
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| Premiership Average |
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13 |
49% |
42% |
53% |
66% |
51% |
58% |
48% |
34% |
316 |
42 |
2 |
3 |
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Ref Foy is just above average in awarding cards to visiting squads this season as
last season. Hopefully he won't change his approach on the weekend. |
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Previous Fulham games what was refed by Christopher Foy
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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) |