Cambridge United (a): Dude, Where’s Your Card?

The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Cambridge United and Lincoln City in League One.

Cambridge United host Lincoln City on Saturday, September 11 for the game at the Abbey Stadium, and the match carries a 3.00pm kick-off.

Referee: Sam Purkiss.
Assistants Refs: Andy Bennett and Darren Blunden.
Fourth Official: Daniel Cook.

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Cambridge United (a - 11/09/21): Will The Imps Win, Lose or Draw?

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Sam Purkiss has been the man in the middle for three matches involving The Imps:

01/12/20: Lincoln City 2-1 Wigan Athletic (League One) – 2 yellow cards
26/01/21: Portsmouth 0-1 Lincoln City (League One) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
24/04/21: Lincoln City 1-2 Hull City (League One) – 5 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 3 — Yellow Cards: 12 — Red Cards: 1

He received an average rating of 3.675 following the 2-1 defeat at home against Hull City last season. Some of the comments can be found below:

Chesterimp: “Easy to mark the referee low when we lose but he was awful, clear fouls missed, Grant’s the most obvious but others let go, non-fouls penalised (Edun’s shoulder charge). Allowed Hull to consistently steal yards at throw-ins. Incapable of pacing 10 yards accurately. Allowed Hull to waste the best part of 2 minutes in added time without compensating. Inconsistent with yellow cards. He did at least improve in the second half.

Got the penalty right (not hard) and had his kit on the right way round, so 2.”

Eweimps: “He let too much go for me and against a robust side that works against us but then on other occasions seemed to blow up for very little. Can’t complain about the pen and it could easily have been two. A big frustration for me was the time he wasted at the end setting up the free-kick and lecturing players…I was watching the clock and thought, well at least we’ll play six minutes but he blew up dead on time doh.

4/10.”

GreenNeedle: “3- After booking Honeyman, he bottled it when he held on to and pulled Grant just outside their box, not even giving a free-kick. Then when he went into our player in the centre he just gave him a stern talking to. He should have been giving a second yellow for both.

Got the second penalty for them right but the first one was wrong. Was constantly lecturing players and time-wasting without adding it on at the end.

I could go on and on but it’s all been said above.”

Sam Purkiss: 2021/22 Stats:

31/06/21: AFC Bournemouth 5-0 Milton Keynes Dons (EFL Cup) – 6 yellow cards
07/08/21: Scunthorpe United 1-3 Swindon Town (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
14/08/21: Burton Albion 2-1 Ipswich Town (League One) – 3 yellow cards
17/08/21: Bristol Rovers 1-0 Oldham Athletic (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
21/08/21: Stevenage 1-1 Port Vale (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
28/08/21: Plymouth Argyle 1-1 Fleetwood Town (League One) – 2 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 6 — Yellow Cards: 22 — Red Cards: 0

Sam Purkiss was the man in the middle for 33 matches’ last season. In those matches, he gave 82 yellow cards and 8 red cards.

He was most card happy in the League One encounter between Peterborough United and Charlton Athletic (2-1) when he showed 7 yellow cards.

Purkiss took in the middle for 28 matches during the 2019/20 season, showing a total of 83 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

He showed seven cards on two occasions during the 2019/20 season, both of which were in League Two: Scunthorpe United 0-1 Carlisle United (7 yellow cards) and Colchester United 0-2 Cheltenham Town (6 yellow cards and 1 red card).

Purkiss oversaw 19 matches in the 2018/19 season. In those matches, he showed 39 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

During the 18/19 season, he was most card happy in the Conference match between Aldershot Town and Salford City (0-1) when he showed 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Sources: The Football League & Soccer Base.