This Kettle is well and truly on the boil

This is his fourth season on the league list. He missed half of one of those seasons but has still totalled a staggering 486 yellow cards and 38 red cards in that time. This season, which is nothing like as high as last season, he's added 126 yellows and 8 reds in 37 games. 58 of those yellow cards have gone to home players and 68 to away players.

He came in for some stick after the game between Stoke and Luton at the Windy City. Despite being male, Mike Newell still had a go at him after he sent off Sol Davis just a few minutes after he'd dismissed Ricardo Fuller.

Kettle has refereed just two Burnley games and surprisingly they have not been littered with cards. It was a rare event when he made his Turf Moor debut in last season's home game against Plymouth, he kept his cards in his pocket. In the previous season only Jean Louis -Valois found his way into the notebook, hard to imagination what he could have done in that game at Cardiff to warrant a card.

He's not the most mobile of referees and this can too often see him too far away from the action. He's improved in these last four seasons, but the cards keep on coming.

The assistant referees will be Keith Lawson (Lincolnshire) and Jason Tyas (Yorkshire) whilst there will be a very familiar figure on the touchline carrying out fourth official duties, none other than controversial Football League referee Graham Laws (Tyne & Wear), fresh from his very public blasting from Mick McCarthy last week.

Previous Burnley games:

Season	Opps	V	Res	Y	R	Burnley players carded
a
2005/06	Plymouth	h	1-0	0	0	.
2004/05	Cardiff	a	0-2	1	0	Valois