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He has been in charge of ten games so far this season, five in the Premiership, three in Division One and two in Division Two and he has been pretty consistent. There have been 34 yellow cards in the ten games but as yet not a single red card and that is some achievement for a Premiership referee. Of the 34 cards he has issued 14 to home players and 20 to away players.
This sort of record is not unusual for him and last season he averaged less than three yellows per game with 92 in 35 games and a total of just four red cards in those games. The last player he did send off was Sunderland’s American midfielder Claudio Reyna in a home defeat against Liverpool towards the end of last season. He is not a nit picking referee and will do everything he can to allow the game to flow.
Premiership referees were for many years more than in a select group, they were considered elite and never ventured into the Football League. Since this changed Gallagher has not previously been in charge of a Burnley game and so there are no past Clarets’ games to look at.