His last visit ended with manager Stan Ternent banished to the stands after an altercation on the pitch at half time after
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
Of those yellow cards 25 have gone to home players and 38 to away team players so that does suggest the
This is a referee who worries me greatly – I just hope he has a quiet day.
He will be assisted by Andrew Hutchinson (
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 |