Shrewsbury Town (a): You Don’t Know What You’re Doing

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

Shrewsbury Town host Lincoln City on Saturday, March 26 for the match at New Meadow, and the match carries a 15:00 kick-off.

Referee: Christopher Pollard.
Assistants Refs: Christopher Husband and Andrew Hendley.
Fourth Official: Joe Clark.

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Christopher Pollard has been the man in the middle for three matches involving Lincoln City:

16/11/19: Gillingham 1-0 Lincoln City (League One) – 4 yellow cards
15/02/20: Accrington Stanley 4-3 Lincoln City (League One) – 6 yellow cards
20/10/20: Lincoln City 2-0 Plymouth Argyle (League One) – 3 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 3 — Yellow Cards: 13 — Red Cards: 0

He received an average rating of 7.192 following the 2-0 win at home against Plymouth Argyle last season. Some of the comments can be found below:

sedgleyimp: “I thought he did okay. Not a difficult one to referee in all honesty. Our two bookings were justified. I think he might have called for the wrong penalty and would be probably relieved that he had the chance to give one so soon after missing the push on Johnson so gave a slightly soft one. Overall though pretty good. 7/10.”/em>

berksimps: “What referee? Quite an easy game for him, got the penalty right. Bookings were straight forward. Barely noticed him in the last hour. 7.5.”

Chesterimp: “7.5 back to front on the penalties, which balanced out. Bookings probably right, all early on which may have established a marker. With 2 sides intent on playing not stifling an easy game to referee.”

Christopher Pollard: 2021/22 Stats:

31/08/21: Forest Green Rovers 1-1 Northampton Town (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
05/10/21: Milton Keynes Dons 2-1 Wycombe Wanderers (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
09/10/21: Stevenage 2-2 Exeter City (League Two) – 6 yellow cards
13/10/21: Bristol Rovers 1-2 Chelsea U21s (EFL Trophy) – 2 yellow cards
19/10/21: Leyton Orient 1-1 Forest Green Rovers (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
26/10/21: Oxford United 3-2 Tottenham Hotspur U21s (EFL Trophy) – 2 yellow cards and 1 red card
30/10/21: Gillingham 0-0 Accrington Stanley (League One) – 3 yellow cards
02/11/21: Northampton Town 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion U21s (EFL Trophy) – 4 yellow cards
09/11/21: Crawley Town 0-4 Southampton U21s (EFL Trophy) – 4 yellow cards
16/11/21: Wycombe Wanderers 0-1 Hartlepool United (FA Cup) – 5 yellow cards
26/11/21: Colchester United 1-1 Newport County (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
30/11/21: Charlton Athletic 2-1 Aston Villa U21s (EFL Trophy) – 2 yellow cards
07/12/21: Cheltenham Town 0-5 Cambridge United (League One) – 3 yellow cards
11/12/21: Doncaster Rovers 1-0 Shrewsbury Town (League One) – 3 yellow cards
18/12/21: Morecambe 0-0 Fleetwood Town (League One) – 2 yellow cards
08/01/22: Tranmere Rovers 4-0 Scunthorpe United (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
15/01/22: Sheffield Wednesday 4-2 Plymouth Argyle (League One) – 3 yellow cards
01/02/22: Harrogate Town 0-0 Mansfield Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
05/02/22: Charlton Athletic 3-2 AFC Wimbledon (League One) – 4 yellow cards
15/02/22: Bristol Rovers 2-0 Sutton United (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
22/02/22: Swindon Town 5-0 Walsall (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
26/02/22: Crawley Town 2-1 Forest Green Rovers (League Two) – 6 yellow cards
22/03/22: Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Cheltenham Town (League One) – 1 yellow card

TOTALS: Matches: 23 — Yellow Cards: 73 — Red Cards: 1

Christopher Pollard was the man in the middle for a total of 25 matches last season, showing 83 yellow cards and 8 red cards.

He showed 7 cards on three occasions: Walsall 2-1 Leyton Orient (7 yellow cards) in League Two, Shrewsbury Town 1-0 Oxford United (5 yellow cards and 2 red cards) in the FA Cup and AFC Wimbledon 3-0 Arsenal U21s (5 yellow cards and 2 red cards, including a red card (two yellows) for former Imps U18 player Tim Akinola) in the EFL Trophy.

Pollard oversaw 23 matches’ during the 2019/20 season. In those matches, he showed 73 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

He was a little card happy in the League One match between Blackpool and Rotherham (1-2) in October 2019, when he showed 9 yellow cards.

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

Have a go at our Lincoln City versus Shrewsbury Town Quizzes, published last season (they were all correct at the time they were published):

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