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This will be his second Bury v Burnley game, he was in charge of our 4-2 defeat there on Boxing Day 1999 (yes Boxing Day again) when he sent of Steve Davis and booked no fewer than eight players.
I can only suggest he has a miserable time at Christmas because other than those two games he's not caused us many problems and is a very unassuming referee who tends to let the players get on with playing.
Mathieson is not the busiest generally with cards and last season in 35 games he handed out just 62 yellow and 2 red cards. Of those yellow cards 28 went to home team players and 34 to away team players.
He started the 2008/09 season at Ninian Park and Cardiff's 2-1 win over Southampton when the only player carded was Cardiff central defender Glenn Loovens.
Tonight he will be assisted by Michael Naylor (South Yorkshire) and Jason Tyas (West Yorkshire) whilst the fourth official duties will be in the hands of Andrew Hutchinson (Cheshire).
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
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1997/98 | Carlisle | a | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | Brass Ford |
1998/99 | York | a | 3-3 | 2 | 0 | Cooke |
1998/99 | Chesterfield | h | 1-2 | 1 | 0 | . |
1999/2000 | Bury | a | 2-4 | 8 | 2 | Davis(R) Branch Cook Cowan Little |
2000/01 | Nott'm Forest | a | 0-5 | 4 | 0 | Davis Payton |
2001/02 | Birmingham | a | 3-2 | 4 | 0 | Alan Moore Davis |
2002/03 | Franchise | h | 1-0 | 2 | 0 | Taylor |
2004/05 | Coventry | h | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | Sinclair |
2004/05 | Brighton | h | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | Cahill |
2005/06 | Carlisle | h | 2-1 | 0 | 0 | . |
2007/08 | Sheffield Wed | h | 1-1 | 4 | 0 | Caldwell Unsworth |