You Don’t Know What You’re Doing – Sunderland v Lincoln City

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

Sunderland host Lincoln City on Saturday, January 4 for the match at the Stadium of Light and the match carries a 3.00pm kick-off.

Referee: Leigh Doughty.
Assistants Refs: Kevin Mulraine and Hristo Karaivanov.
Fourth Official: Mark Dwyer.

This will be the first time Leigh Doughty has been the man in the middle for a match involving Lincoln City, following his promotion to the National List of Referees after just one season in the Conference.

Doughty, who is a PE teacher by trade, began refereeing in 2007 and his first match in the Football League was Cheltenham Town’s 4-1 win at home against Scunthorpe United in League Two on 10th August 2019.

Leigh Doughty: 2019/20 Stats:

10/08/19: Cheltenham Town 4-1 Scunthorpe United (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
17/08/19: Forest Green Rovers 1-0 Grimsby Town (League Two) – 1 yellow card
24/08/19: Newport County 1-0 Crewe Alexandra (League Two) – 1 yellow card
03/09/19: Port Vale 2-1 Shrewsbury Town (EFL Trophy) – 1 yellow card
07/09/19: Bradford City 2-1 Northampton Town (League Two) – 6 yellow cards and 1 red card
14/09/19: Swindon Town 3-0 Macclesfield Town (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
21/09/19: Oldham Athletic 3-1 Morecambe (League Two) – no cards shown
01/10/19: Rochdale 1-1 Bolton Wanderers (EFL Trophy) – 3 yellow cards
05/10/19: Gillingham 3-1 Southend United (League One) – 5 yellow cards and 1 red card
19/10/19: Cambridge United 4-0 Exeter City (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
09/11/19: Grimsby Town 1-1 Newport County (FA Cup) – 3 yellow cards
12/11/19: Burton Albion 1-2 Mansfield Town (EFL Trophy) – 7 yellow cards
16/11/19: Salford City 2-3 Swindon Town (League Two) – 2 yellow cards
30/11/19: Walsall 0-1 Oxford United (FA Cup) – 4 yellow cards
21/12/19: Port Vale 1-1 Cheltenham Town (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
26/12/19: Carlisle United 0-0 Bradford City (League Two) – 3 yellow cards
29/12/19: Milton Keynes 3-1 Portsmouth (League One) – 6 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 17 | Yellow Cards: 52 | Red Cards: 2

Leigh Doughty was the man in the middle for a total of 16 matches during last season, including 14 matches during the regular Conference season, 1 FA Cup tie and the Conference Play-Off Semi-Final tie between Salford City and Eastleigh.

He was most card happy in the match between Chesterfield and Dover Athletic (0-0) when he showed 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

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