Probert stands in

Last updated : 17 October 2008 By Tony Scholes
It is just a year ago this weekend that he last refereed a Burnley game. That was the 1-1 draw at Barnsley when he had a decent enough game, certainly considerably better than his early Burnley games.

Last season, his fifth on the league list, he became one of the select group referees. During last season in 37 games he handed out 82 yellow cards and just three red cards. Apart from two games, both involving Norwich, where he went a bit card crazy he was generally consistent.

This season in nine games he's given out a total of 23 yellow cards. Of those twelve have gone to home team players and eleven to away team players.

The other officials tomorrow will be as they were had Atkinson refereed with David Richardson (West Yorkshire), who was on the line in that game at Barnsley last year, and Jeremy Simpson (Lancashire) as assistants and Football League referee Neil Swarbrick (Lancashire) as fourth official.

Previous Burnley games:

Season

Opps

V

Res

Y

R

Burnley players carded

a

2004/05

Plymouth

a

0-1

5

0

Branch Grant McGreal

2005/06

Leicester

a

1-0

3

0

Hyde Sinclair

2005/06

Crewe

h

3-0

2

0

Duff

2006/07

Crystal Palace

a

2-2

1

0

Hyde

2007/08

Barnsley

a

1-1

2

0

Caldwell