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Although we have had problems with this particular referee, he sent off Andy Cooke at Macclesfield, booked Gareth Taylor in the first minute at Rotherham despite him being taken off concussed and had two nightmares in two of our away games last season.
But his last Burnley game, the Ipswich home game, he probably handled better than any of the previous games. There was only one card in the entire match and that to Driss Diallo who was making his Burnley debut.
This season he has probably got off to one of his quietest starts and in eight games he has averaged exactly three yellow cards per game and has sent only one player off, Cheltenham’s Mike Duff in a 0-0 home draw against Oxford.
This is very much in contrast to last season when he was closer to four yellows per game and also handed out twelve yellow cards.
He has already come across Watford this season in their 2-0 defeat at Sunderland when three players were booked including Watford’s Jamie Hand and Danny Webber.
Hopefully his more restrained style of refereeing will be in evidence tomorrow but some things don’t change and no matter how much rain comes down the Flood Warden won’t be calling it off.
His assistants tomorrow will be Fred Graham from Essex and Glenn Hambling from Norfolk.
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
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2002/03 | Ipswich | h | 1-1 | 1 | 0 | Diallo |
2002/03 | Rotherham | a | 0-0 | 7 | 0 | Taylor Briscoe Maylett Weller West |
2002/03 | Derby | a | 2-1 | 6 | 0 | Cox Grant I Moore McGregor |
2001/02 | Stockport | h | 3-2 | 5 | 0 | Weller |
2000/01 | Crewe | h | 1-0 | 4 | 0 | Ball |
1998/99 | Northampton | a | 0-2 | 3 | 0 | Ford |
1998/99 | Macclesfield | a | 1-2 | 6 | 1 | Armstrong Scott Cooke Little O'Kane Cooke (red) |
1997/98 | Northampton | a | 1-0 | 2 | 1 |