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Last season, however, he refereed us five times in the Premier League. They were the home games against Aston Villa, West Ham and Stoke and the away fixtures at Everton and Sunderland.
He should have sent off Villa's Richard Dunne in his first Burnley game of the season but it was at Everton where he turned in a shocker of a performance. There were no complaints over the red card awarded to Stephen Jordan but he went card happy at our players and the yellows shown to Tyrone Mears and Andre Bikey were just a complete joke.
We'd had problems with him before and no more so than the FA Cup defeat at Millwall in 2004 when he allowed Dennis Wise to virtually run the game. The red card he gave Paul Weller was a nonsense.
His last Burnley game in the Football League was also controversial as he awarded Stoke a stoppage time penalty for the softest of contact between Jon Harley and Liam Lawrence.
Webb's often accused of wanting to steal the limelight - hopefully he won't do that at Preston and will let the players get on with playing the game.
This season, domestically, he's refereed 26 games in which he's handed out 72 yellow cards and three red cards. Of those, 35 have gone to home team players and 37 to away team players. He's sent off Newcastle's Fabricio Coloccini in a 5-1 defeat at Bolton, Steven Gerrard as Liverpool lost 1-0 at Manchester United and most recently Jean Makoun of Aston Villa in a 1-1 draw at Blackpool.
Webb was in action in Europe in midweek; yellow carding four players and sending off two in the Porto v Seville game. His last domestic game was last week's FA Cup tie between Stoke and Brighton. There were two yellow cards in that game; Marc Wilson and Jermaine Pennant, both of Stoke.
The assistant referees tomorrow are Dave Bryan and Ceri Richards (Carmarthenshire). The fourth official is Phil Gibbs (West Midlands), the Football League referee who turned in something of a horror show recently when he refereed our home game against Norwich.
Previous Burnley games:
Season | Opps | V | Res | Y | R | Burnley players carded |
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2002/03 | Milwall | h | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | Gnohere |
2003/04 | Cardiff | h | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | West |
2003/04 | Millwall | a | 0-1 | 4 | 1 | Grant Wood Weller(R) |
2004/05 | Blackburn | a | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | Cahill Grant |
2006/07 | Leicester | a | 1-0 | 4 | 0 | Hyde Sinclair |
2007/08 | Stoke | a | 1-1 | 5 | 0 | Harley Lafferty |
2009/10 | Aston Villa | h | 1-1 | 3 | 0 | . |
2009/10 | Everton | a | 0-2 | 6 | 1 | Bikey Elliott Duff Mears Jordan(Y/R) |
2009/10 | West Ham | h | 2-1 | 3 | 0 | McDonald Fox |
2009/10 | Stoke | h | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | Carlisle McDonald |
2009/10 | Sunderland | a | 1-2 | 5 | 0 | Duff Thompson |