Foy is Sunderland referee

Last updated : 18 September 2009 By Tony Scholes
He's refereed several Burnley games over the years and generally has caused us few problems, but his last Burnley league game proved to be a dramatic one. He wrongly sent off David Unsworth in the closing stages of our home game against Hull in November 2007 and then in stoppage time, with a defender short, Michael Turner headed in the winner.

It was not just Foy's last Turf Moor appearance but also Turner's and the then Hull defender will also be back tomorrow playing his second game for Sunderland.

Other than our first game in the Millennium, when he had a nightmare at Notts County, I can't recall too many problems at all with Chris Foy and he's had a quiet enough start to this season although he did upset a certain Sir Alex Ferguson over a penalty incident or two in the Community Shield.

That is one of five games for him this season, the other four have all been Premier League games. In those five games there have been 14 yellow cards. Four of them came in the Community Shield game. The rest have been equally divided with five to home players and five to away players. And the links with Turner continue, he is one of the five home bookings in Hull's 5-1 defeat against Spurs.

The assistant referees tomorrow are Trevor Massey (Cheshire) and Bob Pollock (Merseyside). The fourth official is Kevin Wright (Cambridge) who last refereed Burnley in November 2006, a 2-1 home defeat against Birmingham.

Previous Burnley games:

Season

Opps

V

Res

Y

R

Burnley players carded

a

1997/98

Lincoln

h

2-1

5

1

Blatherwick Winstanley

1998/99

Bury

h

1-4

2

0

Little

1999/2000

Oldham

a

1-0

3

0

Cook

1999/2000

Notts County

a

0-2

5

0

Bracnh Little Mullin West

2000/01

West Brom

h

1-1

2

0

Thomas

2002/03

Rotherham

h

2-6

5

0

Blake Davis Little

2003/04

Crystal Palace

h

2-3

4

2

Gnohere Weller

2003/04

Wolves

a

0-2

2

0

Branch

2004/05

Rotherham

a

0-0

1

0

Duff

2004/05

Aston Villa

h

3-1

1

0

Grant

2006/07

Stoke

a

1-0

3

0

Elliott Harley

2007/08

Hull

h

0-1

1

1

Unsworth(R)

2008/09

Arsenal

a

0-3

1

0

McDonald