Walton, from Winwick, has refereed just three
In 1998/99 he sent off Neil Moore in a 2-1 home defeat against
This season as been a quiet one for him and he has handed out just 62 yellow and 4 red cards in 29 fixtures and that includes 8 yellow cards in one game between Preston and Stoke.
We can be thankful that yellow cards have now become meaningless in terms of suspensions because only 19 of those 62 have gone to home team players with the other 43 to away team players.
His red cards, three of them in successive fixtures in March, have been evenly distributed.
Incredibly this will be the fourth
Tomorrow he will be assisted by Russell Booth (Notts) and Gary Brittain (
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
a | ||||||
2002/03 | Walsall | a | 2-3 | 3 | 1 | Cook Taylor |
2001/02 | Stockport | a | 2-0 | 3 | 1 | I Moore Thomas |
1998/99 | Luton | h | 1-2 | 5 | 1 | Branch Davis Mellon N Moore (2Y) |