Source: FOOTYMAD
Jones is in charge at Wigan
Mike Jones gets his third Burnley game of the season at Wigan this afternoon, but the other two have been at home against Hull City and Fulham and with this referee that is very significant. The Hull game was somewhat controversial with all the debatable decisions going our way. That's no surprise for a referee that, right from the first time we saw him at Brentford in 1997, has tended to give somewhat dubious decisions in favour of the home team.He'd been left out of the Premier League because of the balloon incident at Sunderland and the Hull game was his first game back. That one led to another brief departure from the top flight.That too was at Burnley, for the Fulham game six weeks later, and then only when he was rushed in as a late replacement for Alan Wiley. Thankfully, presumably for Fulham, he didn't have a difficult game that day.He's refereed another six Premier League games since and so far this season he's sent off four players and yellow carded 88 in 26 games. Of those yellow cards, 34 have gone to home team players and 54 to away team players.Geovanni, in that Hull game at Turf Moor, was the first player he sent off this season. The others have been Coventry's Stephen Wright in a 2-2 draw at QPR, Nadjim Abdou of Millwall as they drew 4-4 at Charlton and Burton's Aaron Webster at Hereford as his side won 4-3.The last time he sent a home player off was last season when he dismissed Blackburn's Jason Roberts against one of his former clubs West Brom.Jones' last game came last Sunday when he refereed Manchester United's 3-0 Old Trafford win against Fulham. The two yellow cards went to Antonio Valencia (Man U) and Danny Murphy (Fulham).The assistant referees this afternoon are David Coote (Notinghamshire) and Scott Ledger (South Yorkshire) whilst the fourth official is Premier League referee Kevin Friend (Leicester). Previous Burnley games:SeasonOppsVResYRBurnley players cardeda1997/98Brentfordh1-120Payton1998/99Chesterfielda0-130Cooke1999/2000Bristol Citya0-030Mullin2000/01Wolvesa0-120Cooke Weller2001/02Wimbledonh3-250A Moore2002/03Coventryh3-111.2003/04Walsallh3-130.2003/04Cardiffa0-240Branch Grant Jensen2004/05Stokeh2-221Duff(Y/R)2004/05Readingh0-010.2005/06Derbya1-240Akinbiyi Sinclair2005/06Readingh0-310J O'Connor2006/07West Bromh3-251Djemba-Djemba Elliott Harley2007/08Norwichh2-130Alexander Unsworth2007/08Stokeh0-040Mahon McCannr2008/09Fulhamh1-010.2008/09West Bromh3-110Caldwell2008/09Southamptona2-270Alexander Caldwell Paterson2009/10Hullh2-041Elliott2009/10Fulhamh1-010.
