Dean's first Turf Moor game in over two years

Last updated : 16 December 2009 By Tony Scholes
This will be his first appearance at Turf Moor since a 2-2 draw against Blackpool early in the 2007/08 season which brought to an end a run of seven Burnley games at the Turf in not much over three years.

He's had his moments in some Burnley games, none more so than the 2-2 draw at Bradford in the 2002/03 season when they came back from behind to draw level with only nine men. It's not the only time he's sent off two players in a Burnley game either. He ended last season by dismissing both Jamie Ward and Lee Hendrie in our Wembley win against Sheffield United.

His only other Burnley game last season was the FA Cup tie at West Brom when I thought he turned in the best refereeing performance I saw all season. He's over eager with the cards at times but I rate him just about the best referee in the country.

Looking at his cards, and he's already got a decent sized collection this season with no less than 60 in 14 games whilst he's added a couple of red cards to that with the dismissals of Birmingham's Barry Ferguson in a 0-0 home draw against Manchester City and Abdoulaye Faye of Stoke as they lost 2-1 at Hull.

There were six yellow cards in his last game, the 2-2 draw between Stoke and Hull. Five of those went to Stoke players and that's evened things up with 30 of his yellow cards going to home team players and 30 to away team players.

I have no real concerns at all about this referee, I just hope I'm not tempting fate here.

He will be assisted by Jeremy Simpson (Lancashire) and Richard West (East Yorkshire). Fourth official tonight is Chris Foy who has already refereed three of our games this season, the home game against Sunderland and the away games at Blackburn and West Ham.

Previous Burnley games:

Season

Opps

V

Res

Y

R

Burnley players carded

a

1997/98

Bournemouth

h

2-2

3

0

.

1997/98

Luton

h

1-1

3

0

Cooke

1998/99

Walsall

a

1-3

4

0

Armstrong Brass Payton

1999/2000

Chesterfield

h

2-1

2

0

Cowan

1999/2000

Wigan

h

0-0

5

0

Johnrose Thomas

2000/01

Crystal Palace

h

2-2

1

0

.

2002/03

Bradford City

a

2-2

6

2

Cook Papadopoulos Taylor

2003/04

Bradford City

h

4-0

0

0

.

2003/04

Preston

a

3-5

4

0

Blake Gnohere West

2003/04

Ipswich

h

4-2

3

0

Chaplow McGregor

2004/05

Blackburn

h

0-0

5

0

Camara Hyde

2005/06

Leeds

h

1-2

6

0

Harley Hyde Sinclair

2005/06

Crystal Palace

h

0-0

4

0

Branch Harley

2006/07

Sunderland

h

2-2

3

0

Hyde

2006/07

Leicester

h

0-1

3

0

Caldwell

2007/08

Blackpool

h

2-2

2

0

Akinbiyi Caldwell

2008/09

West Brom

a

2-2

0

0

.

2008/09

Sheffield Utd

W

1-0

4

2

Carlisle Kalvenes

2009/10

Tottenham

a

0-5

2

0

Bikey