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He's refereed 38 games this season and in those games has handed out 86 yellow cards and four red cards. Of those yellow cards 35 have gone to home team players and 48 to away team players with the other three in the Community Shield at Wembley.
Over the last season he's upset some Premier League managers, although in fairness which referees haven't. The last one to complain about him was Harry Redknapp and that was following the last of his four red cards. He sent off Winston Palacios at Blackburn recently, and that helped change the game in the home side's favour after what was a strange looking decision.
I'm certainly hoping he'll turn in a better performance than the last time he took charge of a Burnley away game. He has to be better than that.
He will be assisted by Michael Bull (Essex) and Andy Williams (Herefordshire) whilst Football League referee Dean Whitestone (Northamptonshire) will be the fourth official. Whitestone refereed our recent 5-0 win over Nottingham Forest.
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
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1998/99 | Luton | h | 1-2 | 5 | 1 | Branch Davis Mellon Neil Moore(Y/R) |
2001/02 | Stockport | a | 2-0 | 3 | 1 | Ian Moore Thomas |
2002/03 | Walsall | a | 2-3 | 3 | 1 | Cook Taylor |
2003/04 | Rotherham | a | 0-3 | 2 | 0 | . |
2004/05 | Nottm Forest | a | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | . |
2005/06 | Cardiff | h | 3-3 | 4 | 0 | Elliott Sinclair |
2006/07 | Cardiff | a | 0-1 | 6 | 0 | Gray O'Connor Lafferty McCann Sinclair |
2007/08 | Wolves | h | 1-3 | 3 | 0 | Lafferty O'Connor |
