Deadman is in his first season on the league list having previously been in the Conference and having exclusively been used in the two lower divisions he was given his first Championship game last month when Derby played host to Crewe. It can only be hoped that there is no repeat of that scoreline tomorrow, then the home side won 5-1.
There was no dramatic introduction to Championship football, only
He’s been as high as eight in one game, the League One fixture between Swindon and Barnsley, and he’s also sent off two players in a game, leaving
In total he has handed out 89 yellow cards and 7 red cards in those 25 games. The yellow cards haven’t provided away teams with many more problems than home teams, 41 of them have gone the way of home players and 48 to away players, although only four of his last thirteen yellow cards have gone to home players.
With the red cards it is a slightly different story and of those seven only Wrexham’s Danny Williams, in a 2-1 defeat against
There’s little else I can report about him, he’s not appeared in any televised games and he’s not a referee who has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
He will be assisted at Ipswich by Fred Graham (Greater Manchester) and John Hayto (