Problem ref back at the Turf

Last updated : 31 December 2004 By Tony Scholes

His last visit ended with manager Stan Ternent banished to the stands after an altercation on the pitch at half time after Gillingham had virtually kicked us off the park for forty-five minutes and got away with it.

Ternent got a four match touchline ban for that and just a couple of days after the ban was confirmed he had to face Laws again as we played at Bradford.

Its not just that one game though, for two years we had him and his brother David (thankfully no longer on the league list) hounding Kevin Ball, the nonsensical sending off of David Eyres towards the end of his Burnley career (again against Gillingham) and the dreadful performance in front of the Sky cameras in a Division Two game against Scunthorpe.

Laws was in mighty fine form recently when he took charge of the Championship match between Derby and Forest at Pride Park when he handed out an incredible nine cards. When a game gets like that is says much about the referee’s inability to control it as much as anything else.

Those were in a total of 63 yellow cards in 22 matches this season with only the one red card for Michael Duberry of Leeds at Wolves in an early season goalless draw.

Of those yellow cards 25 have gone to home players and 38 to away team players so that does suggest the Leicester players will have to be a little more careful than ours.

This is a referee who worries me greatly – I just hope he has a quiet day.

He will be assisted by Andrew Hutchinson (Cheshire) and Kevin Mattocks (Lancashire).

Previous Burnley games:

Season

Opps

V

Res

Y

R

Burnley players carded

a

2003/04

Bradford

a

2-1

2

0

May

2003/04

Gillingham

h

3-1

5

0

Blake

2003/04

Crewe

h

1-0

2

0

Chaplow

2002/03

Grimsby

h

4-0

0

0

.

2002/03

Grimsby

a

2-2

0

0

.

2002/03

Huddersfield

a

1-0

2

0

Briscoe Ian Moore

2001/02

Sheffield Utd

a

0-3

4

0

West

2001/02

Barnsley

h

3-3

2

0

Ball

2000/01

Watford

a

1-0

1

0

Ball

2000/01

Sheffield Utd

h

2-0

4

0

Ball

1999/2000

Rotherham

h

2-0

0

0

.

1999/2000

Scunthorpe

h

1-2

1

0

.

1998/99

Stoke

h

0-2

1

0

O'Kane

1997/98

Walsall

a

0-0

4

0

Cooke Harrison Neil Moore

1997/98

Gillingham

h

0-0

5

2

Eyres(2Y) Ford Howey Waddle