Charlton Athletic (a): Dude, Where’s Your Card?

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

Charlton Athletic host Lincoln City on Saturday, April 2 for the match at The Valley, and the match carries a 15:00 kick-off.

Referee: Robert Madley.
Assistants Refs: Samuel Ogles and Paul Yates.
Fourth Official: Conor Farrell.

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Robert Madley has been the man in the middle for seven matches involving Lincoln City:

23/10/10: Lincoln City 0-0 Stockport County (League Two) – no cards
05/02/11: Hereford United 0-1 Lincoln City (League Two) – 1 yellow card
31/10/20: Doncaster Rovers 1-0 Lincoln City (League One) – 2 yellow cards
02/02/21: Hull City 1-1 Lincoln City (EFL Trophy) – 2 yellow cards
13/04/21: Lincoln City 4-0 Milton Keynes Dons (League One) – 7 yellow cards
30/10/21: Lincoln City 1-1 Shrewsbury Town (League One) – 4 yellow cards
04/12/21: Lincoln City 0-1 Hartlepool United (FA Cup) – 2 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 7 — Yellow Cards: 18 — Red Cards: 0

He received an average rating of 9.33 following the 1-0 defeat at home against Hartlepool United in the FA Cup in December. Some of the comments can be found below:

sedgleyimp: “He was his usual efficient, I’m in charge self. Not a very difficult match to referee, but you could see the players knew they had a good referee today as they knew he wouldn’t stand for any crap.

8/10.”

johnolbe: “10/10 He was excellent for the second time this year. I can’t think of any reason he would not get full marks and I’ve never awarded a full house before. We are so easy to ref though, we accept defeat so easily and nobody bar Jackson has the bottle to be cynical or commit any ****housery.”

Chimpimp: “I said on the Crewe rate the ref – it’s ridiculous Madley and Bourne are refereeing at the same level… because their level of refereeing is light-years apart.

Madley didn’t do anything remarkable or memorable but just understood what was going on around him. He understood the game.

Reading about Mr. Bourne he started refereeing at the age of 14 and is now 31.

So he will quite probably have never have played a game of adult football in his life. He certainly referees as though that is the case.

Anyway – more Madley and no more Bourne, please.

Madley 9.5.”

Robert Madley: 2021/22 Stats:

07/08/21: Sunderland 2-1 Wigan Athletic (League One) – 5 yellow cards
11/08/21: Blackpool 3-0 Middlesbrough (EFL Cup) – 4 yellow cards
17/08/21: Oxford United 1-0 Crewe Alexandra (League One) – 5 yellow cards
21/08/21: Carlisle United 1-1 Leyton Orient (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
24/08/21: Swansea City 4-1 Plymouth Argyle (EFL Cup) – 2 yellow cards
28/08/21: Swindon Town 1-0 Mansfield Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
11/09/21: Ipswich Town 2-5 Bolton Wanderers (League One) – 3 yellow cards
14/09/21: Walsall 1-0 Brighton & Hove Albion U21s (EFL Trophy) – 1 red card
24/09/21: Barrow 2-1 Newport County (League Two) – 1 yellow card
16/10/21: Oldham Athletic 3-0 Stevenage (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
19/10/21: Rotherham United 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers (League One) – 3 yellow cards
26/10/21: Colchester United 1-3 Sutton United (League Two) – 4 yellow cards and 1 red card
30/10/21: Lincoln City 1-1 Shrewsbury Town (League One) – 4 yellow cards
02/11/21: Morecambe 0-2 Cambridge United (League One) – 6 yellow cards
07/11/21: St. Albans City 3-2 Forest Green Rovers (FA Cup) – 3 yellow cards
23/11/21: Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Milton Keynes Dons (League One) – 3 yellow cards
27/11/21: AFC Wimbledon 2-2 Fleetwood Town (League One) – 3 yellow cards
30/11/21: Accrington Stanley 1-1 Wigan Athletic (EFL Trophy) – 4 yellow cards
04/12/21: Lincoln City 0-1 Hartlepool United (FA Cup) – 2 yellow cards
11/12/21: Exeter City 0-1 Tranmere Rovers (League Two) – 2 yellow cards and 1 red card
27/12/21: Doncaster Rovers 0-3 Sunderland (League One) – 2 yellow cards
15/01/22: Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Ipswich Town (League One) – 5 yellow cards
29/01/22: Gillingham 2-7 Oxford United (League One) – 3 yellow cards
05/02/22: Sutton United 1-1 Bristol Rovers (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
12/02/22: Cheltenham Town 2-0 Fleetwood Town (League One) – 3 yellow cards
19/02/22: Scunthorpe United 1-2 Rochdale (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
22/02/22: Cambridge United 2-0 Plymouth Argyle (League One) – 4 yellow cards
26/02/22: Accrington Stanley 3-2 Wycombe Wanderers (League One) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
09/03/22: Hartlepool United 2-2 Rotherham United (EFL Trophy) – 5 yellow cards
12/03/22: Milton Keynes Dons 1-1 Wigan Athletic (League One) – 5 yellow cards
19/03/22: Barrow 1-2 Carlisle United (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
22/03/22: Port Vale 0-0 Exeter City (League Two) – 1 yellow card

TOTALS: Matches: 32 — Yellow Cards: 113 — Red Cards: 4

Bobby Madley was the man in the middle for 36 matches last season, showing 119 yellow cards and 5 red cards.

He was most card happy in The Imps match versus Milton Keynes Dons (4-0) when he showed 7 yellow cards.

Madley oversaw 32 matches during the 2017/18 season. In those matches, he showed a total of 110 yellow cards and 5 red cards.

He was most card happy in the Premier League match between Manchester City and Everton (1-1) when he showed 5 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Madley took in 35 matches in the 2016/17 season, showing a total of 146 yellow cards and 4 red cards.

He showed 8 cards on two occasions that season: Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Liverpool in the Premier League (8 yellow cards) and Southend United 3-1 Scunthorpe United in League One (7 yellow cards and 1 red card).

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

Have a go at our Lincoln City versus Charlton Athletic Quiz, published last season (they were all correct at the time they were published):

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