Philip Dowd (Stoke-on-Trent)
Philip Dowd began his refereeing career in the Staffordshire Senior League and Midland Football Alliance before making the step up to the Football League roster back in 1992.
He cut his teeth as a referee's assistant for five years before making the step up in 1997. From there Dowd was introduced to the Barclaycard Premiership roster in 2001.
Ref Dowd started his career in the Premiership with the notorious grand melee
at Craven Cottage during the visit of Everton in December 2001. Various unsavoury events took place during the melee but the only Fulham player disciplined, a straight red, was Luis Boa Morte who had had no part in the general scuffle. After the game the F.A. decided that the red card was wrong and withdrew it.
Of the eight Fulham Premiership games, refed by Mr Dowd, The Cottagers have won 3, drawn 2 and lost 3 so despite his poor reputation amongst Fulham fans Ref Dowd is at least one of our luckier refs.
Five current Fulham players have been carded by Ref Dowd, Bocanegra, Diop, Rosenior, Radzinski and Volz, Diop twice. Of the 31 yellow cards waved in his eight Fulham Premiership games by Mr Dowd 40% went to Cottagers.
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Ref Dowd is blowing his whistle noticeable more than his mates, as usual, and is the second worse ref for interrupting a game. At the moment he appears to have decided not to get his yellow card so often with a current average of 2.5 yellows per game in comparison to a figure of 4.4 cautions per game last season.
In terms of red cards and penalties some one must have had a word with Ref Dowd. For the last couple of seasons he was one of the quickest to get his red card out and award pens but this season he is one of the least likely to give red cards and pens.
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Mr. Dowd |
Av Premiership Ref |
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Total |
Match Avg |
Ref Pos |
Total |
Match Avg |
| Games |
15 |
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13 |
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| Fouls |
427 |
28.5 |
2nd |
329 |
25.3 |
| Yellows |
38 |
2.5 |
12th |
42 |
3.2 |
| Reds |
2 |
0.1 |
12th |
2 |
.02 |
| Penalties |
1 |
0.1 |
15th |
4 |
0.3 |
| Fouls per Yellow |
- |
11.2 |
17th |
- |
7.9 |
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| Homer? (2005-2006) |
| Total |
Home |
Away |
Total |
| Games |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
Fouls |
Yellow |
Red |
Pen |
| 15 |
220 |
16 |
1 |
0 |
207 |
22 |
1 |
1 |
4027 |
38 |
2 |
1 |
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52% |
42% |
50% |
0% |
48% |
58% |
50% |
100% |
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- |
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| Premiership Average |
| 14 |
50% |
42% |
33% |
63% |
50% |
58% |
68% |
37% |
347 |
44 |
2 |
4 |
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Ref Dowd is a fairly average homer making sure that visiting squads are under the cosh before they step out onto the pitch.
Newcastle have three players on 4 cards Huntington, Moore and Solano and hopefully they will be avoiding any attention from Ref Dowd.
The naughty boys with Newcastle are Emre and Parker, both with 6 yellows. Parker is of course the player that did for Jimmy Bullard. |
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Previous Fulham games what was refed by Phil Dowd |
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26-02-2006 Premiership Bolton 2-1 Fulham 2y 0r
Bookings: Nolan (Bolton) Boa Morte (Fulham)
Ref Dowd had a quiet game although
Heidar Helguson was busy scoring for both sides.
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07-05-2005 Premiership Blackburn 1-3 Fulham 4y 2r
Bookings: Neill, Stead, Short (sent off 69) (Blackburn) Boa Morte, Pembridge, Rosenior (sent off 70), (Fulham)
Two minutes of pure chaos following a bad tackle by Boa Morte that included two sendings off and much huffing and puffing precipitated two dismissals. Blackburn's Short reacted angrily to the tackle and shoved Boa Morte to the ground to earn himself an early exit and a minute later Savage sought retribution with a strong challenge on Boa Morte leading to the dismissal of Rosenior who came steaming in and pushed the Welshman to the ground.
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22-01-2005 Premiership Birmingham 1-2 Fulham 4y 0r
Bookings: Johnson (Birmingham) Boa Morte, Bocanegra, Diop (Fulham)
The one where Fulham scored all the goals and Ref Dowd found it difficult, once again, to cope with Boa Morte. |
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13-12-2004 Premiership Fulham 1-1 Man Utd 13-12-2004 3y 0r
Bookings: Diop, Radzinski (Fulham) Silvestre (Man Utd)
Mr. Dowd, poor again, failed to yellow card Ronaldo for a clear dive in the penalty box in the first half in an attempt to win a spot-kick.
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23-10-2004 Premiership Aston Villa 2-0 Fulham 1y 0r
Bookings: Volz (Fulham)
Another poor performance from Mr. Dowd
who refused Fulham a clear penalty when the game was at 1-0 and also refused to book Hendrie, who scored the second goal, a number of times prior to him scoring.
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20-09-2003 Premiership Fulham 2-2 Man City 7y 0r
Bookings: Clark, Inamoto (Fulham) Anelka, Barton, Sommeil, Sun Jihai, Wright-Phillips (Man City)
Poor performance from Mr. Dowd. Not biased, just very poor.
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26-02-2003 FA Cup Burnley 3-0 Fulham 2y 1r
Bookings: Ian Moore (Burnley) Legwinski, Sean Davis (sent off 49) (Fulham)
It seemed that after Dowd's hugely mistaken red for Luis in the Everton melee that he was hanging the Fulham man out to dry as he ignored Boa Morte being flattened time after time. Dowd decided to help Fulham a bit more by giving Sean Davis a straight red for what he regarded as a reckless tackle.
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30-11-2002 Premiership Blackburn 2-1 Fulham 3 0
Bookings: Dunn (Blackburn) Finnan, Sean Davis (Fulham) |
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08-12-2001 Premiership Fulham 2-0 Everton 7 2
Bookings: Hayles, Legwinski, Melville, Boa Morte (sent off 78) (Fulham) Pistone, Simonsen, Stubbs, Weir(sent off 77 2nd yel) (Everton)
This was the game of the great Melee. Boa Morte caught Weir as he cleared the ball on the edge of his penalty area - and the Everton captain showed a total lack of responsibility as he dragged his foot into Boa Morte's face as he got to his feet. The Fulham players were already unhappy after being kicked around the pitch by Moye's Muggers, suffering racist chants and seeing a bottle thrown at Malbranque. When they saw what Weir had done it seemed that there had been an implosion which dragged 21 players into a crowd pushing and shoving each other while one or two unnamed Cottagers took the opportunity to put the boot into the floored Weir. When the dust had settled Ref Dowd decided to send off Boa Morte, the only player who had not taken part in the melee as he had been sitting quietly where he had originally fallen, and taking no action against the Fulham players who had apparently stamped on Weir. The red card was later rescinded on appeal. Ref Phil Dow had been officiating at his first Premiership match.
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31-01-2001 Division 1 QPR 0-2 Fulham 1 0
Bookings: Sean Davis (Fulham)
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