Plymouth Argyle (a): Should’ve Gone To Specsavers

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

Plymouth Argyle host Lincoln City on Saturday, January 22 for the match at Home Park, and the match carries a 15:00 kick-off.

Referee: Neil Hair.
Assistants Refs: Simon Shaw and Michael Webb.
Fourth Official: Adam Ricketts.

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Neil Hair has been the man in the middle for three matches involving Lincoln City:

07/03/17: Braintree Town 0-4 Lincoln City (Conference) – 1 yellow card
23/10/18: Lincoln City 2-2 Carlisle United (League Two) – no cards shown
14/01/20: Lincoln City 5-1 Bolton Wanderers (League One) – 2 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 3 — Yellow Cards: 3 — Red Cards: 0

He received an average rating of 8.68 following the 5-1 win at home against Bolton Wanderers in January 2020. Some of the comments can be found below:

Eweimps: “A bit lenient with cards early on and missed fouls on our goal line at two corners but overall I’d have him every week.

8/10.”

sedgleyimp: “9/10. Excellent from start to finish. Barely noticed him with the only slight faux-pas being some confusion by the benches in the first few minutes of the second half where he blew thinking the linesman had flagged when he hadn’t. Best we’ve had this season.”

Chimpimp: “I thought he were excellent.

Thought he made a few baffling decisions. Top of the list being… In the second half played advantage for Harry Anderson following an ineffectual foul and then when he was hacked down 30 yards further forward, took no action against the offender and awarded City a free-kick at the spot of the first offence.

Overall though he did not spoil a good game.

6/10.”

Neil Hair: 2021/22 Stats:

10/08/21: Ipswich Town 0-1 Newport County (EFL Cup) – 3 yellow cards
21/08/21: Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Oxford United (League One) – 3 yellow cards
24/08/21: Millwall 3-1 Cambridge United (EFL Cup) – no cards
31/08/21: Charlton Athletic 6-1 Crawley Town (EFL Trophy) – 1 yellow card
04/09/21: Exeter City 0-0 Forest Green Rovers (League Two) – 1 yellow card
11/09/21: Swindon Town 1-2 Port Vale (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
18/09/21: Fleetwood Town 2-2 Sunderland (League One) – 3 yellow cards
28/09/21: Plymouth Argyle 1-1 Crewe Alexandra (League One) – 6 yellow cards
02/10/21: Gillingham 0-2 Wigan Athletic (League One) – 3 yellow cards
23/10/21: Doncaster Rovers 3-2 Cheltenham Town (League One) – 1 yellow card
06/11/21: Ipswich Town 1-1 Oldham Athletic (FA Cup) – 4 yellow cards
09/11/21: Sutton United 1-0 AFC Wimbledon (EFL Trophy) – 1 yellow card
13/11/21: Wycombe Wanderers 0-1 Portsmouth (League One) – 4 yellow cards
16/11/21: Bristol Rovers 4-3 Oxford United (FA Cup) – 5 yellow cards
20/11/21: Milton Keynes Dons 1-0 Burton Albion (League One) – 4 yellow cards
07/12/21: Mansfield Town 1-0 Carlisle United (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
29/12/21: Shrewsbury Town 0-0 Accrington Stanley (League One) – 4 yellow cards
01/01/22: Forest Green Rovers 2-0 Stevenage (League Two) – 2 yellow cards

TOTALS: Games: 18 — Yellow Cards: 52 — Red Cards: 0

Neil Hair was the man in the middle for a total of 21 matches last season, showing 82 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

He was most card happy in the League Two encounter between Salford City and Morecambe (2-1) when he showed 8 yellow cards, including a booking for former Imp Bruno Andrade.

Hair oversaw 27 matches during the 2019/20 season. He showed a total of 83 yellow cards and 3 red cards during those 26 matches.

He showed his yellow card on 7 occasions in the match between Rotherham United and Wycombe Wanderers in League One, which finished 1-0 to the visitors.

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

Have a go at our Lincoln City versus Plymouth Argyle Quizzes, published last season (they were all correct at the time they were published).

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— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) January 21, 2022