James Adcock will referee QPR for the second time in his career on Tuesday when the R’s head to Blackburn Rovers in the Championship.

Referee >>> James Adcock (Nottinghamshire), refereed QPR’s 1-0 win at Bolton back in August.

Assistants >>> Richard Bartlett (Cheshire) and Ross Joyce (Cleveland)

Fourth Official >>>> Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire), Football League official whose brother Robert is also on the league and Premier League list.

History

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/32663/hill%E2%80%99 0 QPR 1, Saturday August 24, 2013, Championship

The introduction of Bobby Zamora for a hot-headed Austin, who needlessly got involved with Marc Tierney and picked up a booking, signalled QPR’s intent for the final 20 minutes. This is what Zamora does well, supposedly, holding the play up and slowing the game down by keeping the ball. It was hardly an inspiring cameo though, yet his work-rate couldn’t be questioned.

Bolton: A Bogdan 6; A Baptiste 6, Z Knight 7, D Wheater 7, M Tierney 6; T Ream 5 (R Hall 72 7), M Kamara 7, J Spearing 8, C Lee 7; J Beckford 5 (C Davies 67 6), D Ngog 5 (Moritz 67 6).

Subs Not Used: A Lonergan, T Mears, M Mills, O Odelusi

Bookings: Tierney 58 (unsporting behaviour)

QPR: R Green 8; D Simpson 7, R Dunne 7, N Onuoha 8, C Hill 8; S Wright-Phillips 6 (Traore 6), K Henry 8, J Barton 6, G O'Neil 7; A Johnson 7 (Jenas -) C Austin 6 (Zamora 71 6)

Subs not used: B Murphy, Y Suk-Young, T Hitchcock, A Faurlin.

Goals: Johnson 54 (assisted Hill)

Bookings: Dunne 8 (foul), Barton 21 (foul), Henry 49 (foul), Austin 58 (unsporting behaviour), Simpson 84 (foul), Onuoha 87 (foul).

Referee — James Adcock (South Yorkshire) 5 An early booking to Richard Dunne for some reason meant every other wrongly timed tackle was a booking. QPR picked up six yellow cards during a pretty timid affair.

Stats

So far this season Adcock has shown 85 yellow cards and five reds in 25 fixtures — 3.4 bookings a game. Of those 25 appointments, 11 have come in the Championship. The seven yellow cards he showed in QPR’s game at Bolton remains his season high, but he’s matched it on three separate occasions since with six yellows and a red at Southend v Millwall in the FA Cup, Stevenage and Orient in the Football League Trophy and seven yellows in MK Dons’ defeat to Wigan in the cup.

Last season his appointments were split reasonably equally throughout the three Football League divisions and the cup competitions with eight Championship fixtures. Overall he showed 94 yellows and five reds in 33 matches which is 2.84 bookings a game on average — on the low side. In his Championship fixtures he showed 31 yellows and one red which is an average of 3.87 yellows a game. His biggest haul in a single match was five yellows and a red at Hartlepool v Carlisle but he also booked six players in a game on three other occasions, including Bolton’s 2-1 defeat at Watford where he did award the Trotters a second half penalty.

In 2011/12 — his first full season on the list — he showed 87 yellows (2.63) and three reds in 33 games split mostly between the bottom two divisions. He was only given one Championship appointment that season — Barnsley v Millwall — but did referee a League Two play off semi final between Cheltenham and Torquay at the end of the campaign.

Other Listings

Championship >>> Barnsley v Burnley gets a Premier League referee in the form of Neil Swarbrick, while Gavin Ward has Watford v Leeds.

League One >>> The South Yorkshire derby between Sheffield United and Rotherham is deemed severe enough to bring in Premier League referee Mike Dean.

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