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Referee Frank Cole

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Frank Cole

Born on 9th November, 1961.

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	-	Frank Cole (Cumbernauld)	09.01.1996 Falkirk [h] L0-3 (SFL Premier Division - game 20)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Frank Cole (Cumbernauld)	11.10.1998 Forfar Athletic [h] W2-0 (SFL Second Division - game 10)		0	0	0	0	0	W6-1
	-	Frank Cole	30.09.2000 Forfar Athletic [h] D1-1 (SFL Second Division - game 8)		0			0		W12-1
	-	Frank Cole	17.03.2001 Clydebank [h] W2-0 (SFL Second Division - game 30)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
	-	Frank Cole	23.02.2002 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [h] D2-2 (Scottish Cup Quarter Final)	0	0	0		0	0	W1-0
	-	Frank Cole	26.02.2002 Arbroath [a] L0-1 (SFL First Division - game 27)	0	0	0		0	0	W2-0
	-	Frank Cole	05.03.2002 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [a] W1-0 (Scottish Cup Quarter Final replay)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
	-	Frank Cole	24.08.2002 Celtic [h] L0-1 (Scottish Premier League - game 4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
	-	Frank Cole	26.12.2002 Hibernian [a] D1-1 (Scottish Premier League - game 22)	0				0		L5-6
	-	Frank Cole	09.03.2003 Dunfermline Athletic [a] D0-0 (Scottish Premier League - game 30)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
	-	Frank Cole	16.08.2003 Kilmarnock [a] L1-2 (Scottish Premier League - game 2)	0	0		0		0	L0-5
	-	Frank Cole	25.10.2003 Heart of Midlothian [h] L1-4 (Scottish Premier League - game 10)	0	0	0		0	0	W2-0
	-	Frank Cole	22.02.2004 Celtic [h] L1-4 (Scottish Premier League - game 25)	0				0	0	L1-6
	-	Frank Cole	24.04.2004 Dundee [h] L0-1 (Scottish Premier League - game 34)	0	0			0	0	W3-1
	-	Frank Cole	28.07.2004 Fulham [h] D1-1 (Friendly)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
	-	Frank Cole	02.01.2006 Raith Rovers [h] W1-0 (SFL Second Division - game 20)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
16	0	← Totals →	16	2	2	11	18	1	2	W36-25

Frank Cole's Summary
Average crime count per game	3.81 pts
The crime count % balance	59-41 in favour of Thistle
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.063 (W4 D5 L7)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 14-Oct-2024

Thistle's Historical Summary
Average crime count per game ᵃ	1.451 pts
Average crime count per game ᵇ	5.765 pts
The crime count % balance	48-52 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.409 (W2732 D1430 L2671)
ᵃ from 1886-87 to 1996-97 (see crime count notes)
ᵇ from 1997-98 to date (see crime count notes)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 17-May-2025

	Crime Count notes
	5 pts are allocated for a penalty, in favour of whichever team is awarded the kick. Our data is comprehensive from 1891-92 (the season of introduction) to date.
	1 pt is allocated for any given player's first yellow card, the point being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is booked and vice-versa. Second yellows are always ignored as superfluous. We introduce the yellow card count from season 1997-98 onwards as our records are comprehensive and meaningful from that season onwards. Official cautions began in the 1940s and we continue to (casually) build such data with a view to, perhaps, setting an earlier date for our yellow card analysis. Incidentally, the actual yellow card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.
	4 pts are allocated for sending offs, the points being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is sent-off and vice-versa. Our crime count database is 'open for business' from 1886-87 onwards as this was the first season that the English FA decreed that the referee had the power to send a player off, although the first known in a Scottish game wasn't until a season later and the first known in a Thistle game wasn't until 1891. Our data is comprehensive from then to the present day. As per the yellow, the actual red card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.

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