The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the game between Barrow and Lincoln City in the Second Round of the League Cup.
Barrow host Lincoln City on Tuesday, August 23 at Holker Street and the match carries a 19:45 kick-off.
Referee: Simon Mather.
Assistants Referees: Anthony Moore and Simon Clayton.
Fourth Official: Marc Edwards.
You can discuss this refereeing appointment HERE, as well as get involved with our pre-match threads: You can post your score predictions, and discuss the starting XI!
Barrow AFC (a) (23/08/22): Who Will Go Through?
Barrow AFC
Lincoln City
Simon Mather has been the man in the middle for 1 match involving Lincoln City:
18/04/22: Lincoln City 3-0 Cheltenham Town (League One) – 3 yellow cards
TOTALS: Matches: 1 — Yellow Cards: 3 — Red Cards: 0
Simon Mather: 2022/23 Stats:
30/07/22: AFC Wimbledon 2-0 Gillingham (League Two) – 8 yellow cards
TOTALS: Matches: 1 — Yellow Cards: 8 — Red Cards: 0
He received an average rating of 8.425 following the 3-0 win at home against Cheltenham Town last season. Some of the comments can be found below:
sedgleyimp: “I’ll kick off with an impressive 8.5. His decision to book their player for the dive to try and get a penalty early doors set the tone for what was a very good display. I might have gone higher if the game was in any way a difficult one to referee. He can come back again.”
Scotimp: “No errors to speak of, let the game run where possible and allowed the players to challenge (not that Cheltenham seemed too bothered with such irrelevancies). 9.”
evenstephen: “One of the better ones and tried to play the advantage rule for both sides when it was possible. I thought we might have been given a spot-kick but generally, I thought he had a decent game. 7.5.”
Simon Mather was the man in the middle or 32 matches last season, showing 137 yellow cards and 10 red cards.
He was just a little card happy in the League One encounter between AFC Wimbledon and Sunderland (1-1), showing 12 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Mather oversaw a total of 23 matches during the 2020/21 season. In those matches, he showed 65 yellow cards and 7 red cards.
He showed 7 cards on two occasions, both of which were in the Conference: Barnet 0-2 Chesterfield (6 yellow cards and 1 red card, including a booking for former Imp Adi Yussuf) and Solihull Moors 1-0 Aldershot Town (5 yellow cards and 2 red cards).
Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.
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