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Woolmer takes charge of QPR at Middlesbrough
Woolmer takes charge of QPR at Middlesbrough
Thursday, 25th Feb 2010 21:32

Andy Woolmer is the referee for our match on Saturday, the second time in quick succession we have had the Northamptonshire official in charge of our game.

Middlesbrough v QPR
Referee: Andy Woolmer (Northamptonshire)

Assistants – Benton (South Yorkshire) and England (South Yorkshire)
Fourth Official – Markham (Tyne and Wear)


The man in charge at The Riverside on Saturday is Northamptonshire official Andy Woolmer. He’s best remembered as the guy that looks like the bloke with the pet mouse in The Green Mile and this is his second QPR game in quick succession having taken us for the dire cup replay defeat against Sheffield United in January where he booked Kaspars Gorkss and three Sheff Utd players, awarded Rangers a highly questionable penalty and denied United a very decent shout for one. His rating of four out of ten from this website on that occasion places him joint 20th on the referee league this season.

Referee - Andy Woolmer (Northamptonshire) 4 Fussy, melodramatic and the fact he missed a blatant penalty for Sheffield in the first half then gave us a highly debatable one, gives him a four when he really should be nursing a one. Awful. LFW Sheff Utd Match Report

So far this season he has shown 54 yellow cards (2.571 a game) and a red in 21 matches, seven of which have been in the Championship where he has shown 16 yellows (2.286 a game) and no reds. His biggest haul in a single game is five yellows and a red at Walsall v Oldham in League One. He has failed to show a card at all in three games this season and has shown one card or less in three of his last four matches.

Last season he showed 98 yellows (2.45 a game) and six reds in 40 games. That included four yellows (one for Peter Ramage) in a 2-1 Burnley win at Loftus Road in the league in November during Gareth Ainsworth’s first spell in caretaker charge. The game swung on two penalty decisions, neither of them given, that would have seen QPR take a point had they been awarded. A rating of four out of ten placed Woolmer very close to the bottom of the referee league.

Referee: Andy Woolmer 4 Should probably have sent Ramage off in the first minute and harshly booked Gudjonsson in the second half but the main talking points were the two penalty decisions. The first one I thought was but can see why he didn’t give it as it was a shoulder to shoulder tangle, the second I thought was nailed on. Having not given those he then proceeded to whistle up for every meagre bit of contact anywhere else on the pitch including in the build up to the second Burnley goal which was a very inconsistent attitude to take. Failed to clamp down on Jensen’s time wasting but did ad on five minutes for it at the end. LFW Burnley Match Report

His last QPR game before that was three seasons ago at home to Sheffield Wednesday, a game that finished 1-1 with seven yellow cards. Another rating of four for that performance saw him finish joint 26th on the referee league.

Referee: Andy Woolmer 4 Over fussy throughout, made Rangers take the kick off again and got steadily more pedantic from there. Seven yellow cards is a ridiculous haul for that game, especially when Whelen didn't get one despite countless fouls and dissent, and Wood didn't get a second one for the penalty incident. Carding Cook for diving was a joke decision - there are occasions when players go to ground and it's neither a dive nor a foul you know. LFW Sheff Wed Match Report

This is his second Middlesbrough fixture of the season as well – he was in charge of their 2-2 draw at Preston in October, showing four yellow cards and adding enough stoppage time to the end of the game for Preston to equalise.

Elsewhere Andy Hall has Preston v Cardiff, Lee Probert drops out of the Premiership for Leicester v Forest, Kevin Friend is taken from the top flight to try and keep hold of Huddersfield v Leeds – Friend seems to be flavour of the month at the moment despite always coming across as a very card happy and poor official in this league and putting in a dire performance at Portsmouth earlier this month. Trevor Kettle has Northampton v Cheltenham.

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