Dude, Where’s Your Card? – Mansfield Town v Lincoln City

The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Mansfield Town and Lincoln City in the EFL Trophy.

Mansfield Town host Lincoln City on Tuesday, October 6 for the match at Field Mill and the match carries a 7.00pm kick-off.

Referee: Ben Toner.
Assistants Refs: Paul Stonier and Anthony Da Costa.
Fourth Official: Wayne Grunnill.

Ben Toner has been the man in the middle for 12 matches involving Lincoln City:

12/02/13: Stockport County 2-0 Lincoln City (Conference) – 3 yellow cards
23/03/13: Lincoln City 3-2 Telford United (Conference) – no cards
12/11/13: Southport 0-1 Lincoln City (Conference) – 1 yellow card
15/02/14: Lincoln City 2-0 Kidderminster Harriers (Conference) – 6 yellow cards
13/09/14: Lincoln City 2-3 Bristol Rovers (Conference) – 1 yellow card
17/01/17: Lincoln City 1-0 Ipswich Town (FA Cup) – 3 yellow cards
09/01/18: Rochdale 0-1 Lincoln City (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
12/05/18: Lincoln City 0-0 Exeter City (League Two Playoffs) – 1 yellow card
27/11/18: Oldham Athletic 1-1 Lincoln City (League Two) – 6 yellow cards and 1 red card
12/01/19: Swindon Town 2-2 Lincoln City (League Two) – 3 yellow cards and 2 red cards
07/12/19: Burton Albion 0-2 Lincoln City (League One) – 6 yellow cards
28/01/20: Lincoln City 0-2 Portsmouth (League One) – 7 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 12 — Yellow Cards: 40 — Red Cards: 3

He received an average rating of 6.30 following the 2-0 defeat at home against Portsmouth last season. Some of the comments can be found below:

Eweimps: “With his history, I was also surprised that a red card or two weren’t shown and was probably a little lenient on yellows (not that that’s a bad thing).

Undoubtedly got a few decisions wrong and missed a few fouls, both ways, but not as bad as I feared.

6/10.”

sedgleyimp: “Middling from the IFollow view. Didn’t seem to have full control at times especially with their player Naylor who seemed to show dissent to him constantly and from the kick-off but no major mistakes and no complaints about the free-kick and penalty awards which were correct.

6/10.”

Long suffering Imp: “Generous 6 from me but wasn’t a good game for any ref to be in charge of, downright dirty at times, the more decisions a referee has to make the more likely that some will be wrong. Could have been worse.”

Ben Toner: 2020/21 Stats:

05/09/20: Huddersfield Town 0-1 Rochdale (EFL Cup) – no cards
08/09/20: Accrington Stanley 7-0 Leeds United U21s (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
15/09/20: Morecambe 1-0 Oldham Athletic (EFL Cup) – 6 yellow cards
19/09/20: Hull City 1-0 Crewe Alexandra (League One) – 6 yellow cards
26/09/20: Port Vale 0-0 Harrogate Town (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
03/10/20: Carlisle United 1-0 Barrow (League Two) – 7 yellow cards and 1 red card

TOTALS: Matches: 6 — Yellow Cards: 24 — Red Cards: 1

Ben Toner was the man with the whistle for 28 matches last season. In those matches, he showed 94 yellow cards and 6 red cards.

He was a little card happy in The Imps home match against Portsmouth (0-2) in League One in January, showing 7 yellow cards.

Ben Toner oversaw 38 matches during the 2018/19 season. He showed a total of 120 yellow cards and 6 red cards.

He was most card happy in the match between Notts County and Northampton Town (2-2) in Sky Bet League Two when he showed 8 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Toner was the man in the middle for 37 matches during the 2017/18 season. In those matches, he showed a total of 105 yellow cards and 5 red cards.

He showed 9 cards on two occasions, both in Sky Bet League Two: Crewe Alexandra 3-0 Crawley Town (7 yellow cards and 2 red cards) and Notts County 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers (9 yellow cards).

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

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