The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Milton Keynes Dons and Lincoln City on Tuesday night.
Milton Keynes Dons host Lincoln City on Tuesday, August 20th for the match at Stadium MK and the match carries a 7.45pm kick-off.
Referee: Michael Salisbury.
Assistants Refs: Daniel Cook and George Byrne.
Fourth Official: Carl Brook.
Michael Salisbury has been the man in the middle for 5 matches involving Lincoln City:
31/10/15: Lincoln City 0-1 Bromley (Conference) – 2 yellow cards
28/1/18: Lincoln City 4-2 Peterborough United (EFL Trophy) – no cards shown
28/4/18: Accrington Stanley 1-0 Lincoln City (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
11/08/18: Lincoln City 4-1 Swindon Town (League Two) – 1 yellow card
09/02/19: Lincoln City 1-1 Northampton Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards and 1 red card
TOTALS: Matches: 5 | Yellow Cards: 12 | Red Cards: 1
He received an average rating of 1.98 following the 1-1 draw at home against Northampton Town in League Two last season. Some of the comments can be found below:
Snats: “I’m gonna give him a 5. He got the red card right, and overall I think he did well not to buy into all the play-acting from both teams (particularly Northampton – Curle’s got a nerve talking about us using dark arts!)
However, he did deny us two clear goalscoring chances, first when he bottled that decision in the first half and secondly with the handball late on, which I haven’t seen back but by all accounts was stonewall.
I’ve certainly seen worse refs, but two poor decisions let him down.”
PerthImp: “3/10 for me. First half was largely OK with yellows and red for Harry, & wasn’t falling for acting/falling over, though he did miss the assault on Frecklington. Second half he was completely shocking, giving things he shouldn’t and not giving things he should. Agree there was an element of not being seen to be swayed by the crowd. Handball should definitely have been a penalty & possibly the two climbing all over Bolger. When did shirt-pulling, holding a player as he goes past and climbing all over a player fail to be a free-kick, unless it’s ‘backing-in’? Refs used to be able to tell the difference, but I wonder if they’re instructed not to give them these days as it happens too often, with us at least.”
Luke Imp: “3/10.
I thought decisions he gave were correct in the main, bar when Andrade was going through in the first half when their defender slipped on the Co-op side.
But it was the things that he didn’t give, which were infuriating. He completely lost is at times, didn’t he? Frecklington gets whacked in the opening minute, no free-kick, stonewall penalty (maybe two?) and in trying to be a macho, strong ref and asserting his authority on the game, he overcompensated and gave us little.
I don’t think there are many refs at this level who can cope with reffing in front of the numbers we have. Some look out of their depth full stop. I don’t think yesterday’s was out of his depth as a ref, just as above, he wasn’t giving what he saw and tried to portray a strong, confident ref when he was anything but.”
Michael Salisbury 2019/20 Stats:
03/08/19: Leyton Orient 1-0 Cheltenham Town (League Two) – 1 yellow card and 2 red cards
10/08/19: Oxford United 1-0 Peterborough United (League One) – 5 yellow cards
13/08/19: Middlesbrough 2-2 Crewe Alexandra (EFL Cup) – 2 yellow cards
17/08/19: Sunderland 2-1 Portsmouth (League One) – 3 yellow cards
TOTALS: Matches: 4 | Yellow Cards: 11 | Red Cards: 2
Michael Salisbury was in charge of 42 matches during the 2018/19 season, showing a total of 129 yellow cards and 4 red cards.
Last season, in the match between Oxford United and Luton Town (1-2) in League One, he showed 7 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Salisbury was the man in the middle for 38 matches during the 2017/18 season, during which he showed 98 yellow cards and 7 red cards.
He was most card happy in the game between Peterborough United and Northampton Town on Monday, April 2, when he showed a total of 7 yellow cards and one red card.
Matchday referee Salisbury took in 31 matches in 2016/17, showing 107 yellows cards and nine red cards.
His highest card count that year was in the game between Stevenage and Portsmouth in League Two, where he showed a total of 7 yellow cards and one red card.
Sources: EFL & Soccer Base.
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