The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Shrewsbury Town and Lincoln City in the First Round of the League Cup.
Shrewsbury Town host Lincoln City on Tuesday, August 10 for the match at New Meadow and the match carries a 7.45pm kick-off.
Referee: Andy Haines.
Assistants Refs: Adam Ricketts and Matthew Smith.
Fourth Official: Scott Tallis.
Shrewsbury Town (a - 10/08/21): Who Will Go Through?
The Shrews
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Andy Haines has been the man in the middle for 16 matches involving Lincoln City:
26/12/07: Bradford City 2-1 Lincoln City (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
29/03/08: Peterborough United 4-0 Lincoln City (League Two) – 1 yellow card
09/08/08: Rotherham United 1-0 Lincoln City (League Two) – no cards shown
31/01/09: Lincoln City 3-3 AFC Bournemouth (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
25/04/09: Shrewsbury Town 0-0 Lincoln City (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
11/08/09: Lincoln City 0-1 Barnsley (League Cup) – 1 yellow card
09/02/10: Darlington 1-1 Lincoln City (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
08/05/10: Lincoln City 0-0 Macclesfield Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards and 1 red card
01/02/11: Bradford City 1-2 Lincoln City (League Two) – no cards shown
09/04/11: Lincoln City 0-4 Gillingham (League Two) – 1 yellow card
25/11/17: Lincoln City 3-1 Port Vale (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
02/10/18: Tranmere Rovers 1-0 Lincoln City (League Two) – 3 yellow cards and 1 red card
17/08/19: Lincoln City 4-0 Southend United (League One) – 3 yellow cards
20/11/19: Lincoln City 0-1 Ipswich Town (FA Cup) – 1 yellow card
11/01/20: Shrewsbury Town 1-1 Lincoln City (League One) – 3 yellow cards
21/11/20: Accrington Stanley 0-0 Lincoln City (League One) – 2 yellow cards and 1 red card
TOTALS: Matches: 16 — Yellow Cards: 41 — Red Cards: 3
He received an average rating of 5.111 following the 0-0 draw away at Accrington Stanley in November 2020. Some of the comments can be found below:
sedgleyimp: “ A bit of a mixed bag of a performance but generally okay. Three big decisions today and I think he got 2 out 3 bad which if you believe Meat Loaf isn’t a bad average
He called their red correctly straight away, which to me on first viewing looked harsh but on replays was clear.
The tackle by their keeper on Hopper was a good tackle as shown by the direction of the ball.
However he missed that one on Johnson in the box and booked him for diving when contact seemed pretty clear. The camera angles today were really close so I’m unsure whether the ref was looking for help from the linesman on it though.
So based on one wrong decision but overall okay, I’ll give him 5.5/10.”
GreenNeedle: “ 4. Don’t think it was a straight red, think it was a penalty. He got the keeper one right which brings him up from a 3.
Overall he stopped a game that had plenty of opportunity to be stopped far too often for the smallest of things, laughably told their keeper to “get on with it” when he didn’t have a ball to get on with and then ran half the length of the pitch to knock a ball out of play.
Made a very poor game even poorer.”
Scotimp: “ Can’t give more than 5. Gave a lot of soft free kicks, but most refs do now. One free-kick when an Accrington player went down with his arms above his head was ludicrous.
A harsh sending off if you are over 40, but it is a red in today’s non-contact game. I thought Johnson went down a bit easily, but it does look like a penalty on repeat viewing. He was having a right go at the ref at full time, hope he hasn’t got himself into any trouble for that.”
Robert Haines was the man in the middle for a total of 29 matches last season. In those matches, he showed 70 yellow cards and 4 red cards.
He was just a little card happy in the League Two match between Barrow and Leyton Orient (1-1), showing 10 yellow cards and 1 red card.
During the 2019/20 season, Haines was in charge of 32 matches, showing 84 yellow cards and 8 red cards.
He was most card happy in the League Two match between Bradford City and Forest Green Rovers, which finished 1-0 to the visitors. In this match, he showed 10 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Haines oversaw 38 matches during the 2018/19 season, showing a total of 108 yellow cards and 4 red cards.
He showed 6 cards on 3 occasions during the 2018/19 season: Doncaster Rovers 0-0 Portsmouth (5 yellow cards and 1 red card) and Fleetwood Town 2-1 Bradford City (5 yellow cards and 1 red card) in League One, and Mansfield Town 1-2 Exeter City (6 yellow cards) in League Two.
Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.
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