Source: FOOTYMAD
Scott gets first ever Burnley game
Graham Scott from Oxfordshire will referee today's game against Reading at the Madejski for what will be his first game involving Burnley. He's in his third season on the Football League list and has refereed once previously at Reading in their 2-1 home win against Blackpool in last season's Championship.This will be his fifth Championship game of the season out of fifteen games in total. Those games have seen him issue fifty yellow cards and four red cards. Of those yellow cards, 26 have gone to home team players and 24 to away team players.The first player he sent off this season was Sheffield Wednesday's Jon Otsemobor in their 2-0 win at Yeovil back in October. In the following month Carl Dickinson of Portsmouth saw red after a bad challenge in their home defeat to Doncaster.The challenge was followed by a melee that saw a couple of other players booked as Doncaster, not for the only time this season, lost their discipline.That's the only one of his red cards I've seen but the other four all came on the same night in the FA Cup replay between Droylsden and Leyton Orient. Orient's Terrell Forbes and Ben Chorley saw red as did Nat Kerr and former Claret Lee Roche of Droylsden. In an incredible game, Leyton Orient equalised on 89 minutes to take the score to 2-2 and extra time and went on to win it 8-2.Scott has been given only one game since and that was Cheltenham v Wycombe on New Year's Day. Wycombe won it 2-1 and all four yellow card went to Cheltenham players Danny Andrew, Wes Thomas, Jeff Goulding and Marlon Pack.Today will be the first time I've seen Graham Scott referee a game.The assistant referees are David Bushell (London) and Marvin Thompson (Middlesex). The fourth official is Simon Barrow (Staffordshire).
