It's Mr Neil Swarbrick, a Premier League official. Card happy fool looking at his stats on soccerbase, and plenty of goals in the games he takes charge of. However, the good news is that the last time he had one of our games was the day we smashed Leeds 4-1 under Keith. He didn't send lovely person Brown off for his assault on Butterfield though. Sweet and sour.
Not sure what to make of that, PL refs are normally **** when we get them. Or am I imagining that? He obviously had a very good game the day we smashed Leeds but was he a PL ref then?
Think he was doing mainly our division, but some Prem. But he's a regular Prem ref now, although he did ref a Champ game this weekend. Wigan's win against Leeds. Reffed a 1-0 home win for us against Palace under Robins, and a couple of defeats under the same manager against Leicester and West Ham (cup I think).
Suppose the worry is that he favours the team that might be in the Prem next season... Subconsciously maybe, of course...
Despite the fact that he's refereed about 12 of our games in the past, the earliest being a 1-0 win away at Tranmere in 2006, he has never refereed a Burnley game. He's dished out 94 cards in 28 games this season, but only one red
Weve had some shockers - Trevor Kettle, Gary Willard and then the idiot on Saturday, Tony Harrington. Lets also not forget that tool Andre Marriner, who managed to play additional time on top of the additional time, to allow Weds to score their winner at Hillsborough. Can anyone please give me a recent example when a referee decision(s) actually resulted and directly influenced a BFC win? Open question......
