It’s just a week short of a year since he last refereed a Burnley came as a late stand in for Phil Dowd at Rotherham when we crashed 3-0 on the day our future in this division was confirmed with 
I can’t remember too much about his performance that afternoon, I was more concerned with our defending, particularly from our goalkeeper and left-back to be too worried about what the referee was up to. The fact is he booked two players and both were
It was the first time he had refereed a
He’s not one of the higher rated Premiership officials and has come in for some stick recently and that seems to have had some effect. In the last month he has concentrated more on carding the home players after a season when he has been labelled a homer.
Despite the recent rush of bookings his record still favours the home sides. So far in 28 games he has dished out 80 yellow cards and a couple of red cards. Of those 80 yellow, 35 of them have now gone to home team players with the other 45 to away team players.
The two players he has sent off, both in November, were Bolton keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen in a 1-1 draw at
Hopefully he will be about as noticeable tomorrow as he was at
He will be assisted tomorrow by Andrew Butler (Lancashire) and Des Morrison (Derbyshire).
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
a | ||||||
2003/04 | Rotherham | a | 0-3 | 2 | 0 | . |
2002/03 | Walsall | a | 2-3 | 3 | 1 | Cook, Taylor |
2001/02 | Stockport | a | 2-0 | 3 | 1 | Ian Moore, Thomas |
1998/99 | Luton | h | 1-2 | 5 | 1 | Branch, Davis, Mellon, Neil Moore(2Y) |