The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Lincoln City and Crewe Alexandra in League One.
Lincoln City host Crewe Alexandra on Saturday, March 6 for the match at Sincil Bank and the match carries a 3.00pm kick-off.
Referee: John Busby.
Assistants Refs: Joe Clark and Bradley Hall.
Fourth Official: David Richardson.
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John Busby has been the man in the middle for 5 matches involving Lincoln City:
11/08/15: Braintree Town 1-3 Lincoln City (Conference) – 1 yellow card and 1 red card
28/11/15: Lincoln City 1-1 Welling United (Conference) – 2 yellow cards
14/04/18: Port Vale 1-0 Lincoln City (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
15/09/18: Macclesfield Town 1-2 Lincoln City (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
11/02/20: Lincoln City 1-1 Milton Keynes Dons (League One) – 5 yellow cards
TOTALS: Games: 5 — Yellow Cards: 14 — Red Cards: 1
He received an average rating of 1.76 following the 1-1 draw at home against Milton Keynes Dons last season. Some of the comments can be found below:
Chesterimp: “I’ll get the ball rolling and set the bar high.
Poor, inconsistent, threatened to lose control and an arrogant prat to boot (MK player down being treated, he was stood preening).
Fortunately, nothing match-defining.
A generous 1”
sedgleyimp: “2. Unbelievable how he calls back a counter-attack of ours after an MK player goes down holding his head after Bridcutt had tackled him perfectly legally and at ankle level to get us moving. Fell for every dirty trick MK employed.”
Eweimps: “Very poor with very little attempt to keep the game flowing and again only seemed to wave yellow cards in one direction. So many poor decisions though not critical ones.
2/10.”
John Busby: 2020/21 Stats:
05/09/20: Luton Town 3-1 Norwich City (EFL Cup) – 2 yellow cards
15/09/20: Millwall 3-1 Cheltenham Town (EFL Cup) – 1 yellow card
19/09/20: Charlton Athletic 1-3 Doncaster Rovers (League One) – 2 yellow cards
26/09/20: Ipswich Town 2-0 Rochdale (League One) – 3 yellow cards
06/10/20: Forest Green Rovers 3-0 West Bromwich Albion U21s (EFL Trophy) – 1 yellow card
17/10/20: Crawley Town 4-0 Morecambe (League Two) – 1 yellow card
24/10/20: Gillingham 0-2 Fleetwood Town (League One) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
03/11/20: Plymouth Argyle 4-2 Swindon Town (League One) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
07/11/20: Stevenage 2-2 Concord Rangers (FA Cup) – 4 yellow cards
10/11/20: Cambridge United 1-1 Peterborough United (EFL Trophy) – 4 yellow cards
14/11/20: Hull City 2-0 Burton Albion (League One) – 3 yellow cards and 1 red card
21/11/20: Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Sunderland (League One) – 2 yellow cards
28/11/20: Bolton Wanderers 3-0 Southend United (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
05/12/20: Fleetwood Town 0-1 Blackpool (League One) – no cards
12/12/20: Crewe Alexandra 2-1 Northampton Town (League One) – 3 yellow cards and 1 red card
22/12/20: Grimsby Town 1-2 Bradford City (League Two) – no cards
08/01/21: Charlton Athletic 0-2 Accrington Stanley (League One) – 3 yellow cards
12/01/21: Bristol Rovers 0-1 AFC Wimbledon (EFL Trophy) – 2 yellow cards
23/01/21: Leyton Orient 0-1 Forest Green Rovers (League Two) – 6 yellow cards and 1 red card
30/01/21: Cambridge United 3-1 Crawley Town (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
06/02/21: Ipswich Town 2-0 Blackpool (League One) – 4 yellow cards
20/02/21: Scunthorpe United 3-1 Harrogate Town (League Two) – 1 yellow card
02/03/21: Exeter City 0-0 Walsall (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
TOTALS: Games: 23 — Yellow Cards: 59 — Red Cards: 5
John Busby was the man in the middle for 33 matches last season. In those matches, he showed 123 yellow cards and 5 red cards.
In the League Two encounter between Forest Green Rovers and Scunthorpe United, which finished 2-0 to the visitors, he showed 7 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Busby oversaw a total of 43 matches during the 2018/19 season, showing 98 yellow cards and 6 red cards.
He was most card happy in the match between Charlton Athletic and Accrington Stanley (1-0) in League One when he showed 6 yellow cards and 2 red cards.
Busby took in a total of 43 matches during the 2017/18 season, showing a total of 110 yellow cards and 4 red cards.
He showed 7 cards on two occasions during that season, the first of which was in the match between Gillingham and Bradford City in League One when he showed a total of 6 yellow cards and 1 red card. The second match in which he showed a total of 7 cards was in League One between Gillingham and Milton Keynes when he showed a total of 7 yellow cards.
Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.
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