He had a poor game back in September when we drew 0-0 with Sunderland but that's not much of a surprise; he'd had shockers in two of his four previous Burnley games, the 3-2 win at Bramall Lane in 2008 and the 1-1 home draw against Southampton in 2011.
One of the younger referees in the Premier League, he only became a Football League referee in 2006 but in not much over three years he'd made it to the Premier League when, in February 2010, he refereed Fulham v Portsmouth at Craven Cottage.
Since his game at the Turf earlier in the season he has refereed in Europe for the first time but also had some controversial moments.
The European game was Inter Milan's 0-0 home draw against St. Etienne in the Europa League and the most controversial incident was his disallowing of a Stoke goal in their 3-2 home win against Arsenal.
He awarded a goal, scored by Bojan, and there seemed no reason for any other decision. There was no flag, correctly so, from the assistant but thirty seconds after awarding the goal he opted to disallow it for offside, claiming Mame Biram Diouf was in the goalkeeper's line of sight. The problem for Taylor was that Diouf was not in an offside position.
He sent off Arsenal's Calum Chambers in that game. It's the only red card he's shown all season whilst there have been 61 yellow cards in 14 domestic games, all but one of them in the Premier League. Of those, 24 have gone to home team players and 37 to away team players.
He's refereed only once since that game at Stoke, which was played on 6th December and that was last Sunday's Tyne-Wear derby in which he yellow carded eight players.
Those that received the cards were Fabricio Coloccini, Cheick Tiote, Jack Colback and Paul Dummett (Newcastle) and Sebastian Coates, Connor WIckham, Lee Cattermole and John O'Shea (Sunderland).
The assistant referees are Gary Beswick (County Durham) and Scott Ledger (South Yorkshire). The fourth official is Football League referee Carl Boyeson (East Yorkshire) whose last Burnley game was our 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest last season.
Previous Burnley Games
| Season | Opponents | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley Players Carded |
| 2007/08 | PLYMOUTH | h | 1-0 | 2 | 0 | n Varga |
| 2008/09 | SHEFFIELD UNITED | a | 3-2 | 4 | 0 | n Elliott, Jordan |
| 2011/12 | SOUTHAMPTON | h | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011/12 | HULL | a | 3-2 | 3 | 0 | n Wallace |
| 2014/15 | SUNDERLAND | h | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | n Marney |