The match officials have been confirmed for the League One tie between Lincoln City and Birmingham City at Sincil Bank on Saturday 19th October (15:00).
Referee: Simon Mather.
Assistant Referee: Anthony Da Costa.
Assistant Referee: Danny Jarvis.
Fourth Official: Michael Barlow.
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Simon Mather has been the man in the middle for 4 matches involving Lincoln City and no matches involving Saturday’s visitors, Birmingham City.
His most recent match involving City was a 0-0 draw at home against Barnsley in League One during the 2022/23 season, in which he showed just 3 yellow cards, all of which were for the visitors.
He received an average rating of 7.00 following the 0-0 draw with Barnsley. Some of the comments can be found below:
Scotimp “Worth a 7. I thought the linesman on the SB side gave a few curious decisions but that is not the ref’s fault.”
Red Wimp “Agree on dodgy throw-ins, although I think they were down to him telling the assistant which way, although he did once literally hold his hands up to a mistake. The only other decision I would question is Barnsley No. 12 who was already on a yellow clattered one of our defenders in an aerial challenge which the referee did give a free kick for. I think once he’d decided it was a foul then it was worth a yellow.
6”
So far this season, he has refereed 8 matches, showing 23 yellow cards (2.88) and 3 red cards. He has shown 6 cards on two occasions, both of which were in League Two: Milton Keynes Dons 1-1 Doncaster Rovers (4 yellow cards and 2 red cards) and Port Vale 1-1 Colchester United (6 yellow cards).
Simon Mather oversaw a total of 36 matches during the 2023/24 season, showing 184 yellow cards (5.11) and 10 red cards. He showed 10 cards on three occasions: Reading 0-1 Peterborough United (10 yellow cards) and Oxford United 2-1 Bristol Rovers (7 yellow cards and 3 red cards) in League One, and Newport County 1-0 Wrexham (9 yellow cards and 1 red card) in League Two.
Sources: English Football League and Soccerbase.
Pre-match views from the forum:
sedgleyimp: “I think we need to go solid with players who will press high and long for the first 60m minutes. I don’t know if House if fit, but if he is he has to go straight back into the starting XI.
The likes of Ring and Cadamateri would be better used from the bench when the game stretches late on.
Wickens
Darikwa – O’Connor – Jackson – Roughan – Jeffries
McGrandles – Erhahon – Moylan
House – Makama
Think we are the kind of team that will disrupt them.
Going for a 2-0 Lincoln win with a 26% possession stat”
Scotimp: “Birmingham missing a number of players including Brain of Britain winner Krystian Bielik, who was booted into touch by Charlton a few days after his words of wisdom.”
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