Taylor at Hillsborough

The last time he refereed a Burnley game was back in March. On that occasion he was a late replacement for Pat Miller at Southend. That night there were two very poor performances, one from Southend and one from Burnley. To be fair Taylor had very little to do in a game that offered very little, although he did reach for his yellow card on four occasions.

Looking back, he's not a referee that has caused us too many problems, and hearing his final whistle on his first visit to Turf Moor back in 1998 brought great relief as we beat Plymouth 2-1 to stay up at the end of the 'Waddle season'.

Taylor is not a card happy referee and at times is a referee who likes to blend into the background and let the players get on with playing. This season so far in five games he's yellow carded fifteen players with ten of those being away team players.

His last red card was a week before the end of last season when he sent off Birmingham's Fabrice Muamba in a game that virtually ended Sheffield Wednesday's hopes of making the play offs.

He will be assisted by Paul Thompson (Derbyshire) and Andrew Newbold (Leicestershire) and the fourth official will be Mark Sutton (Derbyshire).

Previous Burnley games:

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