Police officer David Phillips is the man in the middle at Loftus Road on Saturday as QPR face Preston.
Referee >>> David Phillips (West Sussex), third season on the list, second Championship match of the season, second career QPR appointment.
Assistants >>> Gary Jerden (Essex) and Nick Kinseley (Essex)
Fourth Official >>> John Busby (Oxfordshire)
QPR 2 Bristol City 1, December 26, 2009
David Phillips’ only QPR appointment to date was the Boxing Day fixture from last season against Bristol City. You may recall this was the day that Paul Hart added a defensive midfielder and two full backs to a team that already had two defensive midfielders, two centre halves and two full backs in it to protect a miserable 2-1 advantage and incurred the wrath of the Loftus Road crowd in the process. For some reason, possibly my own sanity, the match report from that game was lost in the site move during the summer so we have no summary of Mr Phillips performance other than to say he booked three Bristol City players and none of ours and didn’t do anything awful that made him stand out in my memory.
QPR: Cerny, Hall, Ramage, Gorkss, Williams, Leigertwood, Routledge, Watson, Buzsaky (Borrowdale, 83 ) , Faurlin (Agyemang, 62 ) , Simpson (Connolly, 83 )
Subs not used: Taarabt, Balanta, Taylor, Pellicori,
Bristol C: Gerken, Orr, Fontaine, McAllister, Carey, Williams ( Clarkson, 70 ) , Skuse, Hartley, Maynard, Haynes ( Sproule, 82 ) , Saborio ( Sno, 70 )
Subs not used: Elliott, Nyatanga, Henderson, Edwards
Bookings: Haynes , Maynard , Sno
This season he has shown 38 yellow cards (3.166 a game) and three reds in 12 matches, his busiest night came in the League Cup at Fratton Park where he showed five yellows and a red in a game between Pompey and Crystal Palace. His only Championship game so far this season was a 0-0 draw between Millwall and Reading. Last season he showed 93 yellows (three a game) and three reds in 31 matches. He showed seven yellow cards in a physical match between Colchester and Leeds at the start of the season but nothing out of the ordinary apart from that. He refereed seven Championship games last season showing 18 yellows and a red, slightly below his average.
Championship >>> Expect fireworks and cards as Trevor Kettle takes charge of Middlesbrough v Millwall.
League One >>> Brendan Malone, a larger than life character who was a regular on the Conference circuit when Setanta Sports covered non-league, continues to work his way up the ladder and has Walsall v Carlisle this weekend and Peterborough v Orient on Tuesday.
League Two >>> Stuart Attwell returns after his latest eight week sabbatical following a string of high profile errors at the start of the season, he has Bradford v Macclesfield. Gavin Ward has Wycombe v Torquay on Tuesday.