Second of the season for Taylor

He yellow carded six players in that game, including four Burnley players, and despite the win that night his performance he was given a rating of just 51.18 in our Rate the Ref feature. He's certainly been a referee keen on his cards in Burnley games and in nine previously has handed out no fewer than 39 yellow cards (22 to Burnley players) and he also sent off Jason Koumas when we played Tranmere at the Turf in 2001.

In fairness he's not caused us any real problems in those games but I think it is far to assume that we'll be lucky to come away from St. Mary's tomorrow without at least a couple of yellow cards.

If that happens it will take him into three figures for the season. In 38 games to date he has handed out 99 yellow cards and 8 red cards. Four of those red cards have come in recently in two games.

Back in March he sent off both Gary Doherty and Darel Russell of Norwich in their 1-0 defeat at Coventry and in his last match three days ago Jonathan Douglas (League One Leeds) and Jonathan Worthington (Huddersfield) were both dismissed as Huddersfield won 1-0. Of those yellow cards 32 of them have gone to home team players and 67 to away team players.

Taylor will be 49 in June and this is almost certain to be his last Burnley game.

His assistants tomorrow will be Stephen Child (Kent) and Andrew Sainsbury (Wiltshire) with Michael McCoy (Kent) on duty as fourth official.

Previous Burnley games:

Season	Opps	V	Res	Y	R	Burnley players carded
a
1997/98	Plymouth	h	2-1	4	0	Weller Winstanley
1999/2000	Oxford	h	3-2	6	0	Cooke Mellon
2000/01	Tranmere	h	2-1	7	1	Davis Moore Thomas Weller
2001/02	Crystal Palace	a	2-1	3	0	Johnrose
2002/03	Reading	a	0-3	2	0	Cox Taylor
2004/05	Wolves	h	1-1	3	0	Camara Hyde
2005/06	Preston	h	0-2	4	0	Elliott Noel-Williams
2006/07	Southend	a	0-1	4	0	Gudjonsson Harley O'Connor(J)
2007/08	Sheffield Wed	a	2-0	6	0	Alexander Carlisle Jordan Lafferty