Mathieson is now in his fifteenth year as a Football League referee and he's refereed a number of Burnley games, and perhaps, last year apart, his worst performance was in yet another Boxing Day clash at Bury in 1999.
He sent Steve Davis off in that game, although there could be no argument with the Burnley captain handling the ball on the line, but his performance was a poor one that day and he went a bit crazy with his yellow cards.
That's not something he does too often, and overall he's been ok when refereeing Burnley games. He isn't a referee who appears to want to be the star attraction and he does allow players to get on with playing.
This season, in 21 games, he's handed out just 38 yellow cards whilst the only player he's sent off is Darlington's Steve Foster in their 2-0 home win against Lincoln. Of those yellow cards 20 have gone to home team players and 18 to away team players.
This will be his second Burnley game this season, he previously was in charge of our Carling Cup win at Bury back in August.
He will be assisted by Danny Roberts (Greater Manchester) and Wayne Trott (Merseyside) and the fourth official will be Bob Roberts (Lancashire).
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
a | ||||||
1997/98 | Carlisle | a | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | Brass Ford |
1998/99 | York | a | 3-3 | 2 | 0 | Cooke |
1998/99 | Chesterfield | h | 1-2 | 1 | 0 | . |
1999/2000 | Bury | a | 2-4 | 8 | 2 | Davis(R) Branch Cook Cowan Little |
2000/01 | Nott'm Forest | a | 0-5 | 4 | 0 | Davis Payton |
2001/02 | Birmingham | a | 3-2 | 4 | 0 | Alan Moore Davis |
2002/03 | Franchise | h | 1-0 | 2 | 0 | Taylor |
2004/05 | Coventry | h | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | Sinclair |
2004/05 | Brighton | h | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | Cahill |
2005/06 | Carlisle | h | 2-1 | 0 | 0 | . |
2007/08 | Sheffield Wed | h | 1-1 | 4 | 0 | Caldwell Unsworth |
2008/09 | Bury | a | 2-0 | 1 | 0 | . |