Ref Watch – Coventry City v Lincoln City

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

Coventry City host Lincoln City on Saturday, December 21 for the match at St. Andrew’s Stadium and the match carries a 3.00pm kick-off.

Referee: Darren Handley.
Assistants Refs: Matthew Jones and Mark Derrien.
Fourth Official: Christopher Husband.

Darren Handley has been the man in the middle for 10 matches involving Lincoln City:

22/11/11: York City 2-0 Lincoln City (Conference) – 6 yellow cards
08/09/12: AFC Telford 1-1 Lincoln City (Conference) – 2 yellow cards
12/01/13: Lincoln City 2-4 Newport County (Conference) – 5 yellow cards
26/02/13: Lincoln City 0-1 Mansfield Town (Conference) – 6 yellow cards and 1 red card
20/04/13: Hyde United 1-5 Lincoln City (Conference) – 5 yellow cards
13/08/13: Lincoln City 1-0 Macclesfield Town (Conference) – 5 yellow cards
05/10/19: Nuneaton Town 2-2 Lincoln City (Conference) – 2 yellow cards
01/01/14: Grimsby Town 1-1 Lincoln City (Conference) – 7 yellow cards and 2 red cards
28/10/17: Lincoln City 0-0 Crawley Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
21/04/18: Lincoln City 2-1 Colchester United (League Two) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card

TOTALS: Matches: 10 | Yellow Cards: 47 | Red Cards: 4

He received an average rating of 5.96 following the 2-1 win at home against Colchester United during the 2017/18 season. Some of the comments can be found below:

Impalex: “Better than most we’ve had recently. Got the red card wrong I thought but most other bits right even giving a foul throw against Colchester.

7/10.”

PerthImp: “Must be me then – personally I thought he was as bad as any other ref I’ve seen this season. Several times I just shouted at the computer screen in disbelief that a decision either wasn’t given, was given when I thought there was nothing, and was disrupting the flow of the game at times. And that was for both teams, so I’m not being that biased. No better than 4/10 for me.”

Scotimp: “I thought he was poor. Gave a free-kick against Rhead in the first 90 seconds when a defender came straight over the top of him – ridiculous decision, especially as Rhead clearly did not know the defender was there. That set the tone for Rhead for the whole game, causing Rhead to lose his rag with the ref in the second half and earn yet another yellow card for dissent. Gave a foul against Whitehouse in the centre circle even though it was behind his (i.e. the ref’s) back – he couldn’t possibly have seen it. Appalling decision to send off Bostwick – what was he consulting the linesman for? Two blatant elbows by Mandron which earned just one yellow card and the opportunity to stay on the pitch and set up the equaliser. Besides that, nothing important.

4/10.”

Darren Handley: 2019/20 Stats:

03/08/19: Morecambe 0-2 Grimsby Town (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
20/08/19: Walsall 0-0 Newport County (League Two) – 6 yellow cards
31/08/19: Crewe Alexandra 2-1 Bradford City (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
03/09/19: Accrington Stanley 2-1 Fleetwood Town (EFL Trophy) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
17/09/19: Mansfield Town 0-4 Cambridge United (League Two) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
28/09/19: Rochdale 0-3 Wycombe Wanderers (League One) – 2 yellow cards
05/10/19: Rotherham United 4-0 Coventry City (League One) – 3 yellow cards and 1 red card
12/10/19: Macclesfield Town 2-1 Port Vale (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
15/10/19: Carlisle United 2-1 Blackpool (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
22/10/19: Burton Albion 1-0 AFC Wimbledon (League One) – 2 yellow cards
26/10/19: Bristol Rovers 2-2 Portsmouth (League One) – 6 yellow cards
05/11/19: Shrewsbury Town 1-0 Peterborough United (League One) – 6 yellow cards
10/11/19: Hayes & Yeading 0-2 Oxford United (FA Cup) – 2 yellow cards
12/11/19: Scunthorpe United 3-0 Sunderland (EFL Trophy) – 2 yellow cards and 1 red card
16/11/19: Rotherham United 1-0 Accrington Stanley (League One) – 7 yellow cards and 1 red card
20/11/19: Newport County 2-0 Grimsby Town (FA Cup) – 4 yellow cards and 1 red card
07/12/19: Morecambe 1-1 Carlisle United (League Two) – 4 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 17 | Yellow Cards: 68 | Red Cards: 6

Darren Handley oversaw a total of 42 matches during the 2017/18 season. In those matches, he showed a total of 130 yellow cards and 8 red cards.

He showed 7 cards on two occasions: Doncaster Rovers 4-1 Southend United in League One (6 yellow cards and 1 red card) and Mansfield Town 3-2 Cheltenham Town in League Two (4 yellow cards and 3 red cards).

Handley took in 39 matches in 2016/17, showing 131 yellows cards and 2 red cards.

He was most card happy in the match between Crawley Town and Hartlepool United on January 14, when he handed out a total of 7 yellow cards.

He took in 32 matches during the 2015-16 season and in those matches, he handed out a total of 112 yellow cards and 5 red cards.

He showed 7 cards on three occasions during that season: Leyton Orient v AFC Wimbledon (6 yellow cards and 1 red card), Peterborough United v Swindon Town (7 yellow cards) and Mansfield Town v Northampton Town (6 yellow cards and 1 red card).

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

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