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 |