The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Lincoln City and Oxford United in Sky Bet League One.
Lincoln City host Oxford United on Saturday, September 21 for the match at Sincil Bank and the match carries a 3.00pm kick-off.
Referee: Anthony Backhouse.
Assistants Refs: Barry Gordon and Hristo Karaivanov.
Fourth Official: Richard Wigglesworth.
Anthony Backhouse has been the man in the middle for 11 matches involving Lincoln City:
13/04/13: Lincoln City 2-1 Tamworth (Conference) – 5 yellow cards
28/12/13: FC Halifax Town 5-1 Lincoln City (Conference) – 2 yellow cards and 1 red card
04/10/16: Wrexham 1-2 Lincoln City (Conference) – 5 yellow cards
17/12/16: Lincoln City 2-1 Tranmere Rovers (Conference) – 6 yellow cards
20/01/17: Lincoln City 2-0 Dover Athletic (Conference) – 1 yellow card
14/03/17: York City 2-1 Lincoln City (FA Trophy SF1) – 3 yellow cards
03/04/17: Lincoln City 2-0 Dagenham & Redbridge (Conference) – 2 yellow cards
09/09/18: Stevenage 1-2 Lincoln City (League Two) – 6 yellow cards and 2 red cards
03/11/18: Lincoln City 2-1 Forest Green Rovers (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
04/12/18: Accrington Stanley 2-2 Lincoln City (EFL Trophy) – 7 yellow cards
22/04/19: Lincoln City 0-0 Tranmere Rovers (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
TOTALS: Matches: 11 | Yellow Cards: 43 | Red Cards: 3
He received an average rating of 7.97 following the 0-0 draw at home against Tranmere Rovers last season. Some of the comments can be found below:
plumbob: “7.5 missed several clear hand to ball incidents, but not much else. He even gave a free-kick to Rheady! Sadly, like the rest, he couldn’t see when his shirt was regularly stretched about 2 feet from his body. Won’t mark him down for that as it’s seemingly now part of the laws!”
sedgleyimp: “On the whole pretty decent for me. Tried to play advantage except for the only time it really mattered, ie when the ball came through to Rheady who stroked it into the net, but in fairness, I think the whistle going caused the Tranmere players to stop. Also, there did seem to be quite a decent handball shout second half but it was right at the other end to me so couldn’t be certain.
Overall I’ll concur with the 8/10 which most are giving.”
Luke Imp: “8.5/10.
One of the better ones this season.
The only minor gripe was the Toffolo throw when he clearly couldn’t hear what the ref was saying because he didn’t once look at him.”
Anthony Backhouse: 2019/20 Stats:
03/08/19: Tranmere Rovers 2-3 Rochdale (League One) – 6 yellow cards and 1 red card
13/08/19: Shrewsbury Town 0-4 Rotherham United (EFL Cup) – 1 yellow card
17/08/19: Salford City 1-1 Port Vale (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
24/08/19: Sunderland 3-1 AFC Wimbledon (League One) – 2 yellow cards
03/09/19: Crewe Alexandra 1-3 Burton Albion (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
07/09/19: Cambridge United 0-1 Forest Green Rovers (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
14/09/19: Walsall 0-1 Bradford City (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
TOTALS: Matches: 7 | Yellow Cards: 22 | Red Cards: 1
Anthony Backhouse was the man in charge of 39 matches, showing 105 yellow cards and 5 red cards.
He was most card happy in the match between Cheltenham Town and Macclesfield Town (2-2) in Sky Bet League Two when he showed 7 yellow cards and 1 red card.
During the 2017/18 season, Backhouse was the man in the middle for 33 matches. In those matches, he showed a total of 102 yellow cards and 7 red cards.
He showed 8 cards on two occasions during the 2017/18 season: Stevenage 1-2 Lincoln City (6 yellow cards and 2 red cards) and Mansfield Town 1-1 Exeter City (7 yellow cards and 2 red cards).
Matchday referee Backhouse took in 23 matches during the 2016/17 season, showing 56 yellows cards and no red cards.
His highest card count that year was in the match between Lincoln City and Tranmere Rovers in the National League, where he showed a total of 6 yellow cards.
Sources: EFL & Soccer Base.
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