Should’ve Gone To Specsavers – Crewe Alexandra v Lincoln City

The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Crewe Alexandra and Lincoln City in the First Round of the Carabao Cup.

Crewe Alexandra host Lincoln City on Saturday, September 5 for the match at Gresty Road and the match carries a 3.00pm kick-off.

Referee: Scott Oldham.
Assistants Referees: Andrew Hendley and Joe Clark.
Fourth Official: Lisa Rashid.

Scott Oldham has been the man in the middle for 5 matches involving Lincoln City:

17/10/17: Swindon Town 0-1 Lincoln City (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
30/01/18: Lincoln City 3-1 Newport County (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
08/03/19: Lincoln City 1-0 Yeovil Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
03/09/19: Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Lincoln City (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
07/03/20: Lincoln City 3-2 Burton Albion (League One) – 3 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 5 — Yellow Cards: 16 — Red Cards: 0

He received an average rating of 6.7 following the 3-2 win at home against Burton Albion in League One last season. Some of the comments can be found below:

plumbob: “I’m going 5.5. A bit strange that he gave so many free-kicks and chats in the first half but no cards. Pretty sure he didn’t book Sheehan for his slam dunk practice either, maybe I’m wrong on that, I should be! But to be fair overall was decent enough.”

Impalex: “Compared to the recent dross we have had, he was pretty fair to both sides and his little ‘chats’ had the desired effect.

6.5 from me.”

evenstephen: “6 – Nice to see a ref who doesn’t flash cards all over the place but another day could have booked Sheehan and should have given us a free-kick and cautioned the Burton player who clattered into Grant during the second half.”

berksimps: “Way better than most. Played a good advantage and kept the game open and exiting. Right to book Bossie when he pulled their guy back, otherwise was sensibly lenient. 8/10.”

Scott Oldham was the man in the middle for 32 matches last season. In those matches, he showed 91 yellow cards and 5 red cards.

During the 2019/20 season, he showed 6 cards on two occasions: Macclesfield Town 1-1 Bradford City (5 yellow cards and 1 red card) in League Two and Hartlepool United 1-1 Exeter City (5 yellow cards and 1 red card) in the FA Cup.

Matchday referee Scott Oldham took in for 34 matches during the 2018/19 season. He showed a total of 99 yellow cards and 1 red card.

He showed 6 yellow cards on two occasions during that season: Macclesfield Town 1-2 Swindon Town in Sky Bet League Two and Oxford United 1-1 Sunderland in Sky Bet League One.

During the 2017/18 season, Oldham oversaw 31 matches showing a total of 79 yellow cards and 5 red cards.

Oldham showed 7 cards on two occasions in the 2017/18 season: Milton Keynes 1-4 Bradford City in Sky Bet League One (6 yellow cards and 1 red card) and Notts County 1-2 Crawley Town in Sky Bet League Two (5 yellow cards and 2 red cards).

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

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