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He has been with us on some momentous days over the years. He was referee for the York game in the 1998/99 season on the day that Stan Ternent very publicly sacked four players. He yellow carded Paul Gascoigne on his Burnley debut in 2002 and refereed the disastrous 4-0 defeat at Coventry in 2004. More recently he was with the big decision on the day we had a parachutist on the cricket field stand roof and was the referee at MK Franchise last season on the day our manager ended his Turf Moor career.
HIs last Burnley game saw just one yellow card, that to Hull's Nicky Barmby, and that means we've not picked up one yellow card in any of the last four Burnley games he's refereed.
He's averaging close to three cards per game this season which is higher than usual for him. In 24 games there have been 66 yellow cards and four red cards. Of those yellow cards, 29 have gone to home team players and 37 to away team players.
Of the four red cards there have been two in the Championship. He sent off Crystal Palace's James Vaughan in a 5-0 hammering at Derby and Dennis Souza of Doncaster in their 2-2 draw at Bramall Lane against Sheffield United.
His last game was a week ago when he refereed Preston's 4-0 home defeat against Bristol City. Just Jamie McAllister (Bristol City) was yellow carded.
The assistant referees are Ian Crouch (Kent) and Stephen Daly (Middlesex). The fourth official is Paul Kelly (Kent).
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
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1997/98 | Bristol City | a | 1-3 | 3 | 0 | Barnes Beresford Vinnicombe |
1998/99 | York | h | 0-1 | 3 | 0 | Scott N Moore |
2001/02 | Bradford City | h | 1-1 | 3 | 0 | Gascoigne Thomas |
2002/03 | Brighton | h | 1-3 | 3 | 1 | Gnohere(R) |
2002/03 | Nottm Forest | a | 0-2 | 2 | 0 | I Moore McGregor |
2003/04 | Millwall | h | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | West |
2003/04 | Coventry | a | 0-4 | 2 | 0 | Jensen May |
2004/05 | Plymouth | h | 2-0 | 4 | 0 | Akinbiyi Branch Sinclair |
2005/06 | Leeds | a | 0-2 | 5 | 1 | Jensen McGreal Sinclair |
2006/07 | Southampton | a | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | Elliott Harley |
2007/08 | Scunthorpe | a | 0-2 | 2 | 0 | Jordan McCann |
2007/08 | Coventry | h | 2-0 | 1 | 0 | McCann |
2008/09 | Ipswich | h | 0-3 | 1 | 0 | . |
2008/09 | QPR | a | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | . |
2009/10 | MK Franchise | a | 2-1 | 2 | 0 | . |
2010/11 | Hull | h | 4-0 | 1 | 0 | . |