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Madley in charge of Swansea visit - Referee
Friday, 12th Apr 2019 16:27 by Clive Whittingham

Andy Madley is the man in the middle for Saturday's game between QPR and Swansea at Loftus Road - his third Rangers appointment so far this season.

Referee >>> Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire), third QPR appointment this season.

Assistants >>> Robert Merchant (Staffordshire) and Lee Venamore (Kent)

Fourth Official >>> Dean Whitestone (Bedfordshire)

History

Middlesbrough 2 QPR 0, Saturday February 23, 2018, Championship

But really this was just 45 minutes of Middlesbrough seeing a game out. Fletcher shot wide from the edge of the area 60 seconds into the half as QPR, again, started nice and strong. Saville, lovely looking player, shot just over from ages away. Assombalonga had one disallowed by fourth official Anthony Blackhouse (on for original referee Andy Madley who had to leave the field at half time suffering the effects of acute boredom) for a foul in back play and was then denied by a leg save from Lumley one on one when QPR were carved apart once more and he really should have scored. Saville had another 20 yarder wide and substitute Stewart Downing also missed the target with a presentable opportunity as time drifted slowly away into a very pleasant north east evening. Pulis yawped at his boys all the way through and QPR looked like they’d rather be anywhere else. They weren’t the only ones.

Boro: Randolph 6; Howson 7, Ayala 6, Shotton 6, Fry 7; Wing 6, Mikel 8, Besic 8 (Downing 59, 6), Saville 8; Assombalonga 6 (Hugill 78, 6), Fletcher 6 (Tavernier 73, 6)

Subs not used: Konstantopoulos, Clayton, McNair, Van La Parra

Goals: Howson 3 (assisted Besic), Fletcher 31 (assisted Besic)

Bookings: Besic 14 (foul), Howson 63 (foul)

QPR: Lumley 3; Furlong 4, Leistner 5, Hall 5, Bidwell 5; Wszolek 5 (Wells 81, -), Luongo 5, Cousins 5, Manning 4 (Osayi-Samuel 46, 6); Eze 6; Hemed 4 (Smith 69, 5)

Subs not used: Ingram, Scowen, Kakay, Lynch

Bookings: Cousins 70 (foul)

Referee — Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire) 6 (Anthony Blackhouse 45, 7) Madley a little pedantic in the first half, popped off at half time presumably bored with an uncompetitive encounter. Blackhouse marginally better second half, again with no tackles being made and therefore nothing to referee.

QPR 1 Preston 4, Saturday January 19, 2019, Championship

Where this story deviates from the one you’ve heard all too often before, is that this time QPR gave North End their first goal rather than them bundling some scrambled chance in from half a yard out. Josh Scowen had already been harshly booked for a foul in back play by referee Andy Madley — though he initially showed the card to Luke Freeman — when Joe Lumley played him a hospital pass on the edge of the box after 14 minutes. Immediately under pressure, Scowen got the ball caught under his feet and surrendered it to Browne who teed up Jayden Stockley to sweep the ball emphatically into the far corner for his first goal since a transfer window switch from Exeter City.

There was a brief rally of sorts. Nahki Wells pulled a good save from Rudd with a volley, Darnell Furlong headed the resulting corner over via a combination of goalkeeper and bar (the referee erroneously gave a goal kick) and Wszolek caused a minnor penalty box scramble when he cut the ball back from the byline just before the hour. That really was it though, and PNE looked supremely confident and comfortable even at 1-0 — this a team without a win in six, recently dumped out of the FA Cup by Doncaster Rovers, and sitting bottom of the Championship form table prior to kick off.

What usually happens at this point is Preston start coming up with creative and innovative ways to make sure the ball goes out of play and stays there. The medical staff become frequent visitors to the field and goal kicks, throw ins and free kicks become long drawn out affairs. Initially, that’s exactly what happened. I could have done a reasonable oil painting of Rudd in the time it took him to get one of his kicks away and first Darnell Fisher and then Jordan Storey collapsed to earth holding hands to non-existent head injuries — a blatant fallacy that referee Andy Madley was happy to accept at face value each time; stopping the play, having the physio trot on, establish there’s nothing wrong, stroll to the touchline, sprint back into the game as soon as it starts again.

QPR: Lumley 4; Furlong 5, Leistner 5, Lynch 5, Bidwell 5; Scowen 4, Cousins 4 (Smith 46, 5); Wszolek 5 (Osayi-Samuel 76, 5), Eze 5 (Smyth 85, -), Freeman 5; Wells 5

Subs not used: Ingram, Hall, Manning, Oteh

Goals: Smith 84 (assisted Bidwell)

Bookings: Scowen 9 (foul), Furlong 90+2 (foul), Lynch 90+3 (foul)

Preston: Rudd 6; Fisher 7, Storey 8, Davies 7, Hughes 7; Pearson 8; Gallagher 7, Browne 8, Maguire 8 (Barkhuizen 68, 7), Potts 8; Stockley 7 (Nmecha 77, 6)

Subs not used: Johnson, Woods, Ledson, Huntington, Ripley

Goals: Stockley 14 (assisted Browne), Storey 68 (assisted Davies), Browne 82 (assisted Storey), Potts 87 (assisted Nmecha)

Bookings: Maguire 23 (foul), Fisher 90+5 (foul)

Referee — Andy Madley (Yorkshire) 5 Started the game with a lesser spotted rescinded yellow, having booked Freeman when it was actually Scowen and it wasn’t a foul worthy of a booking anyway. From there on, like so many referees in this division this season, was complicit in and actively encouraged the time wasting by stopping the game to allow treatment for players who blatantly weren’t hurt and were just running the clock. Nothing to do with the result, but sooner or later (please let it be sooner) a referee is going to have to strap a pair on and stand up to this because it’s now happening every week in every game I watch at this level.

Brentford 2 QPR 1, Saturday April 21, 2018, Championship

QPR not at the races then. Holloway was right, his team were chasing them all over the place and Brentford were doing all sorts of stuff. Over the next 20 minutes or so Brentford mixed near misses for a second goal with horrible tackles that luckily found referee Andy Madley in lenient mood. First Woods cracked Luongo with an elbow in an aerial challenge, then Watkins flew into a two-footed horror show on Furlong as he cleared down the left flank — both were only booked. As per usual, not a single QPR player spoke to the referee about either decision. We’re so nice and accommodating it’s untrue.

On the ball the Bees were rather more attractive. Ingram saved from Watkins when he tried his luck from a narrow angle, then when Rangers were caught pisballing about in midfield again the former Exeter striker glided past two defenders and shot wide from the edge of the box. He looks some player. Then came the post strike and when Watkins surged through on goal again and was obviously upended by Ingram in the area, slightly slow off his line and paying a heavy price for it, the game looked well and truly up.

But this was to prove something of a turning point the other way. Ingram required lengthy treatment to a head knock after the incident which gave Watkins a long time to think about what he was going to do with the spot kick. Madley, again rather generously in my view, interpreted the new double jeopardy rules for this season to mean Ingram should only be booked meaning he had the chance to take his place back in goal and redeem himself. He did, saving low to his left, although in truth you’d probably have saved it yourself.

Just as well the spot kick was so completely lousy as Ingram obviously wasn’t fit to continue and sure enough was helped from the field in a very groggy state looking like he was about to throw up a couple of minutes later. One fat sex case made it his business to run all the way along the front of the main stand to try and attack the injured man on the way off and had to be held back by four stewards. Probably somebody’s father that. Fuck me.

Brentford: Bentley 7; Dalsgaard 6, Egan 7, Mepham 8, Barbet 6; Woods 8, Sawyers 7; Jozefzoon 7, Macleod 6 (Mokotjo 65, 6), Canos 7 (yennaris 81, -); Watkins 8 (Maupay 45, 7)

Subs not used: Bjelland, Mceachran, Clarke, Daniels

Goals: Canos 15 (assisted Barbet), Jozefzoon 69 (assisted Mokotjo)

Bookings: Woods 26 (foul), Watkins 33 (foul)

QPR: Ingram 7 (Smithies 45+5, 7); Kakay 7, Furlong 7, Baptiste 5, Bidwell 6 (Manning 74, 6); Scowen 5; Smyth 6 (Smith 72, 6), Wszolek 5, Luongo 6, Freeman 5; Sylla 6

Subs not used: Cousins, Perch, Eze, Osayi-Samuel

Goals: Sylla 45+2 (assisted Luongo)

Bookings: Ingram 42 (foul), Bidwell 50 (foul), Scowen 52 (foul)

Referee — Andy Madley (West Yorkshire) 6 Calm head and a lenient approach to a derby game when on a different day Watkins, Woods, Ingram and Scowen could all have seen more than yellow from a different referee. Not too bad overall, if a little generous in several situations, especially with Ingram for the penalty.

QPR 1 Bristol City 1, Saturday December 23, 2018, Championship

For Queens Park Rangers, a good point against an excellent team, but a sense of injustice that having survived a second half barrage from Bristol City they were robbed of two more late on by one of the worst refereeing decisions you’ll see this season. Manager Ian Holloway was still speaking with match official Andy Madley an hour after the full time whistle.

It felt like a matter of time, especially once Freeman had been removed which ended what little possession QPR were managing to hold onto by that stage completely. A shame really that the goal, when it did arrive, came in the manner it did — a perplexing decision from referee Andy Madley to award a penalty for Flint and Baker crashing into each other in the Rangers penalty area. It was the second of three occasions Madley had seemed to make his mind up what decision he was going to give underneath a set piece before the ball had even been delivered — moments earlier he’d penalised Matt Smith for a non-existent foul trying to attack a QPR free kick almost before the ball had been kicked. The penalty was hot nonsense, but duly converted down the middle by Reid.

Madley then committed that cardinal sin of refereeing, turning his back on the action. As he sprinted off back to halfway a melee developed in the back of the net caused by Flint, who’d earlier been booked for a foul on Baptiste, slamming into the back of Nedum Onuoha sending him sprawling across the floor and into the back of the net. I like Flint, he’s player I’ve been watching since I was writing Alfreton Town stuff for the prestigious Ripley and Heanor News, I wish we’d signed him when we had the chance from Swindon, he’s a great player — but this was daft, and a definite second yellow. Madley had a prolonged conversation with the linesman, to which he could presumably contribute fuck all having turned his back on it all, after which he decided to take no action against anybody and just kick off as if nothing had happened.

QPR: Smithies 9; Baptiste 7, Onuoha 6, Robinson 7; Wszolek 6, Bidwell 7; Scowen 6, Luongo 6, Freeman 8 (Hall 79, 5); Sylla 5 (Smith 68, 5), Samuel 6 (Washington 64, 5)

Subs not used: Cousins, Lumley, Wheeler, Oteh

Goals: Flint own goal 37 (assisted Freeman)

Yellow cards: Bidwell 80 (foul)

Bristol City: Fielding 6; Wright 6, Flint 8, Baker 7; Kelly 6 (Magnusson 64, 7), Leko 5 (Pack 63, 7); Bornwhill 7, Smith 7, Bryan 8; Taylor 6 (Woodrow 72, 6), Reid 7

Subs not used: Steele, Eliasson, Vyner, Andrews

Goals: Reid 82 (penalty, won Flint/Baker)

Yellow cards: Bryan 36 (foul), Leko 56 (foul), Flint 76 (foul)

Referee — Andy Madley (Yorkshire) 4 In a season of generally high-quality refereeing performances in QPR games, this was the worst performance by a country mile. The penalty was an absolute load of bollocks, and was the second of three occasions where he seemed to have made his mind up what decision he was going to give under a throw or corner before the thing had actually been taken — an earlier free kick awarded against Matt Smith at the other end was blown for so quickly I’m not sure that ball had even been delivered before it was awarded. Having conjured a spot kick from two Bristol City players running into each other, he then committed the cardinal refereeing sin of turning his back on the action after the ball had gone in — facing the other way down the pitch as Aden Flint, on a booking, smashed into the back of Nedum Onuoha sending him sprawling into net. An obvious second yellow card but after a prolonged conversation with the linesman, which Madley would have been able to contribute nothing to as he wasn’t even looking, no further action was taken. A good game with two teams flying at each other, sadly let down by incompetence from the referee.

QPR 0 Burton Albion 0, Saturday September 23, Championship

He missed with a header on 17 minutes from a Freeman cross so good it nearly resulted in an own goal anyway, and quite how referee Andy Madley didn’t rule Buxton’s blatant back pass to be exactly that when Bywater picked it up on 20 minutes I’ll never know, but QPR were in a mess. Players began rotating wildly through positions as early as the twenty fifth minute as instructions started flowing on from the touchline. Freeman’s volley over from Wszolek’s cross on the half hour was the only attempt on goal in the final 25 minutes of the half.

But the half quickly descended into frustration. Madley, having refereed brilliantly for 70 minutes, seemed to rather lose the plot late on, adding to the growing exasperation round Loftus Road. Though you couldn’t blame the referee for the three separate occasions QPR players hit the deck as if they’d been killed, necessitating a stoppage in play, only to then be fine to continue — twice without any attention from the physio at all. Ideal for Burton, who took their time walloping the ball all the way back to Smithies when play did restart, ideal for Nigel Clough as it killed what little momentum QPR had built up and ran the clock down, ball-acheingly annoying for those of a QPR persuasion — particularly the Pawel Wszolek one where the play was stopped with Freeman in space, with the ball at his feet, about to shoot, on the edge of the penalty area. It’s our time, our possession, our chance, get the fuck up man.

QPR: Smithies 6; Furlong 4 (Smith 45, 6), Baptiste 6, Robinson 6, Bidwell 5; Ngbakoto 4 (Osayi-Samuel 46, 7), Scowen 8, Freeman 7; Wszolek 5, Mackie 5 (Sylla 70, 6), Washington 4

Subs not used: Lynch, Manning, Caulker, Lumley

Burton: Bywater 7; Buxton 7, McFadzean 7, Turner 7; Brayford 6, Warnock 6; Murphy 6, Allen 6 (Akpan 75, 6), Scannell 7 (Dyer 58, 6); Akins 6, Sordell 6 (Varney 73, 6)

Subs not used: Flanagan, Ripley, Naylor, Mason

Referee — Andy Madley (Yorkshire) 7 I thought he was pretty good overall, exemplary for an hour and then lost it a little bit towards the end. Didn’t clamp down on the time wasting enough, and only added four minutes to the end of a half that felt like it should have had at least six. But he didn’t produce a yellow card, dealt with what few flashpoints there were calmly, and refereed well overall. You can’t blame the referee for stopping the play while QPR are attacking if it’s a QPR player rolling round on the floor as if he’s about to take his last breath.

QPR 1 Bristol City 0, Tuesday October 18, 2016, Championship

QPR: Smithies 7; Perch 6, Onouha 8, Caulker 7, Lynch 6 (Hamalainen 32, 6); Borysiuk 7, Luongo 8; Cousins 5 (Gladwin 53, 5), Chery 6, Washington 7; Sylla 7 (Polter 90, -)
Subs not used: Ingam, Wszolek, Henry, Shopido

Goals: Sylla 75 (assisted Luongo)

Bristol City: Fielding 7; Matthews 6, Flint 6, Magnusson 5, Bryan 6; Brownhill 6 (Wilbraham 58, 6) O’Neil 6, O’Dowda 6 (Pack 58, 6) Reid 6 (Freeman 81, 6) Tomlin 7, Abraham 5.

Subs not used: Smith, O’Donnell, Moore, Paterson

Bookings: Tomlin 60 (Diving)

Referee — Andy Madley 8 Testament to his refereeing that the first thing I noted was his booking of Tomlin for diving in the 60th minute (Correct). Missed what I thought was an obvious yellow for Magnusson’s blatant shove on Chery late on, but otherwise an excellent and calm performance.

QPR 0 Preston 2, Saturday August 20, 2016, Championship

It wasn’t until Conor Washington replaced Henry on the hour and added some much needed support for Polter in attack that QPR even threatened to splutter into life a bit. Even then chances were few and far between. Washington, looking livelier than he has before since arriving from Peterborough in January, forced two quickfire handball penalty appeals which were both rightly waved away by referee Andy Madley. The official may have been more inclined to point to the spot when Polter hit the deck later on — that did look a spot kick to me and is perhaps the first instance of referees noticing that QPR, and Polter in particular, seem to win a lot of penalties at the moment and thinking themselves out of awarding another. Polter hooked another volley straight at Anders Lindegaard in the North End goal, and Washington was unfortunate not to make a better connection after controlling another high punt into the area well with his right foot then attempting to shuffle it past the onrushing Lindegaard in one fluid movement.

A yellow card for Perch in first half stoppage time was deserved, but Beckford being allowed to harangue the referee about the incident without being booked despite the new directive this season only served to increase frustration.

QPR: Smithies 4; Perch 5, Onuoha 5, Caulker 4, Bidwell 5; Henry 4 (Washington 54, 6), Luongo 5; Ngabokto 5 (El Khayati 64, 6), Chery 5, Cousins 5; Polter 5

Subs not used: Ingram, Shodipo, Kakay, Paul, Grego-Cox

Bookings: Perch 45+1 (foul)

Preston: Lindegaard 6; Humphrey 7 (Huntington 87, -), Clarke 7, Wright 8, Cunningham 6; Welsh 6, Gallagher 7 (Browne 74, 6); Johnson 8; Robinson 7, Beckford 6 (Hugill 73, 6)

Subs not used: Makienok, Doyle, Pringle, Maxwell

Goals: Beckford 21 (assisted Gallagher, mistake Smithies), Onuoha own goal (assisted Beckford, mistake Onuoha/Henry)

Bookings: Welsh 58 (foul), Browne 85 (foul)

Referee — Andy Madley (West Yorkshire) 6 Not bad overall, although I felt Polter could have had a penalty and one can only assume that Beckford being allowed to charge towards him screaming in his face after James Perch’s foul at the end of the first half without retribution means we’ve already dropped the brave new attempt to curb dissent.

QPR 2 Charlton 1, Saturday April 9, 2016, Championship

They led at half time thanks to a goal that rather summed the first 45 minutes up. Matt Phillips cut infield and decided to cross with his left foot, Junior Hoilett ran across from the opposite side in an apparently offside position, and the ball bounced limply past Pope and into the net. The celebrations, such as they were, stunted by the nature of the goal, the quality of the game, and referee Andy Madley’s prolonged interest in disallowing it. Almost apologetically, the ball was eventually returned to the centre spot and QPR held the half time advantage.

Grant Hall was obviously pulled down at an early QPR corner — bit of a clue when you can see the lad’s nipples from the fourth row of F Block — but Madley showed no interest in awarding a penalty and Charlton swept to the other end and struck the face of the bar after Harriott skinned Robinson and curled one round Smithies searching for the far top corner. Then Vetokele seemed to have a chance to go clean through on goal himself but decided to sort of casually jog after the ball rather than spring into the space ahead and Hall was able to swoop in and clear the danger.

QPR: Smithies 7; Perch 6 (Kpekawa 61, 5), Hall 5, Onuoha 5, Robinson 6; Luongo 6, Henry 6; Phillips 5 (Gladwin 71, 7), Chery 6, Hoilett 6 (El Khayati 85, -); Polter 5

Subs not used: Washington, Ingram, Faurlin, Petrasso

Goals: Phillips 45+1 (unassisted), El Khayati 90+4 (unassisted)
Bookings: Kpekawa 66 (foul), Onuoha 86 (foul), Gladwin 90+1 (foul)

Charlton: Pope 6; Fanni 5, Solly 6, Fox 6 (Lennon 83, -), Teixeira 6; Lookman 6 (Jackson 89, -), Cousins 7, Diarra 6, Harriott 7; Sanogo 4 (Makienok 31, 5), Vetokele 4

Subs not used: Henderson, Ba, Bergditch, Motta

Goals: Cousins 62 (unassisted)

Referee — Andy Madley (West Yorkshire) 7 Not too bad, bookings all correct, nothing overly officious or massively incorrect. Must say, this trend for referees to stand and stare unmoved at players basically having their shirts lifted clean off their backs at corners and not award penalties is starting to grate somewhat.

Reading 0 QPR 1, Thursday December 3, 2015, Championship

For all the improvements in the defence, Reading crafted two gilt-edged chances that should really have been scored. After eight minutes Paul Konchesky pulled back Garath McCleary — should have been booked but was let off by referee Andy Madley — allowing Oliver Norwood to deliver a fantastic free kick which Michael Hector, up from the back, headed wide when unmarked at the back post and favourite to score. In the second half Hector climbed over slack marking at the back post to meet a corner from Norwood but directed his header over the bar when it seemed easier to hit the net.

Rather than see Norwood’s set piece as a warning, QPR contrived to concede two more free kicks in exactly the same position in the following ten minutes — Fer and then, in amateur fashion, Konchesky giving the Reading man a chance to wrap his boot round a couple more dead balls.

There was also a bizarre moment in the second half when a foul by Faurlin set Reading’s top scorer Nick Blackman up for a free kick from the thick end of 30 yards. He met it sweetly, beating the wall easily, but with the ball flying right down the middle of the goal, directly above Robert Green who had a completely clear view of it, it seemed rather odd for the goalkeeper to stand perfectly still and let it cannon back into play off the face of the crossbar. Green didn’t even lift an arm to it. It was like he didn’t even know it had happened. Perhaps we should start using a ball with a bell in it. Or maybe he thought Blackman’s vision was based on movement, like a t-rex.

This was a dog of a game overall. Poor, even by Championship standards. Refereed pedantically.

Reading: Al Habsi 3; Gunter 6, Hector 5, Ferdinand 6, Taylor 5; McCleary 6, Fernandez 5 (Robson Kanu 73, 5), Williams 6, Norwood 7; Blackman 6 (John 80, -), Vydra 5 (Sa 80, -)

Subs not used: Bond, Obita, Hurtado, Cooper

Booked: Norwood 67 (foul)

QPR: Green 5; Perch 5, Onuoha 7, Hall 6, Konchesky 5; Phillips 5, Fer 5, Sandro 7, Faurlin 7, Petrasso 6 (Austin 63, 6), Hoilett 6 (Chery 76, 6)

Subs not used: Henry, Angella, Smithies, Angella, Tozser

Goals: Onuoha 89 (assisted Faurlin)

Booked: Fer 28 (foul), Hall 40 (deliberate handball)

Referee — Andy Madley (West Yorkshire) 5 Lots of whistle, lots of inconsistency, lots of pedantry — including a bizarre incident with a Norwood free kick where he insisted the ball be placed on just the right blade of grass and not rolled away from a weird snow-ball of foam he’d built behind it. Twice in the first half QPR players appeared to have been fouled, only for a free kick to be awarded the other way seconds later for similar offences. He suited a dreadful game well really, a suffocating, ball-acheing presence at times.

QPR 0 Brighton 0, Wednesday September 18, 2013, Championship

Phillips fired over from range, Austin planted a firm header from a Barton corner smack on target only for visiting goalkeeper Thomasz Kuszczak to fling himself to his left and palm the ball aside with two hands. Three minutes before half time the former Burnley man hesitated over a free ball in the area believing himself to be offside, but referee Andy Madley — who on this evidence has an unhealthy love of farce and uncertainty — had ruled that the ball was played to him by a Brighton player and had Austin scored the goal would have counted.

With Keith Andrews the wind-up merchant in chief, Joey Barton a time bomb with a dodgy clock attached, and referee Andy Madley often showing the inexperience that comes with only being on the league list for two years the game became a frustrating watch in the first half, and almost American Football-like in the second when it was often reduced to a stoppage every minute and a designated kicker situation.

For several heart stopping minutes Barton sought out the referee for a further exchange of views at every stoppage of the game and QPR dispatched a member of staff to the dressing room to start running the taps. It took a fellow Scouser, Clint Hill, to forcibly wrestle Barton away into a quiet part of the penalty area while awaiting a Brighton throw for a “calm down, calm down” session lacking only fuzzy wigs and novelty moustaches to save the day. In the second half Madley pulled Barton up and halted a counter attack with an accusation that he’d handled the ball while controlling it — in actual fact it had come off the top of his shoulder. The volcanic temper grumbled and bubbled but failed to erupt.

QPR: R Green 6; D Simpson 6, R Dunne 7, N Onuoha 7 (B Assou-Ekotto, 23, 6), C Hill 7; K Henry 7 (J Jenas, 74, 4), J Barton 7; S Wright-Phillips 6, M Phillips 7 (A Traore, 80, -), G O'Neil 7; C Austin 5

Subs not used: A Faurlin, B Murphy, T Carroll, T Hitchcock

Bookings: Barton 34 (repetitive fouling)

Brighton: T Kuszczak 7, G Greer 6, M Upson 6, I Calderon 7, S Ward 6 (Bruno 80, -); A Crofts 6, K Andrews 6; J Caskey 6 (R Ince 85, -), D Lopez 6 (W Buckley 67, 6), C Conway 6; A Barnes 6

Subs not used: P Brezovan, A El-Abd, K Lua Lua, S March

Bookings: Calderon 71 (foul), Bruno 89 (foul)

Referee — Andy Madley (West Yorkshire) 5 A curate’s egg of a refereeing performance this one. Given the fouls he let go without a card — Andrews particularly fortunate — it was difficult not to conclude that a first half booking for Barton for two seemingly fair tackles was done more because of who he was rather than what had gone on. Went through long periods whistling for everything, then short bursts where several fouls were allowed to go. This created odd situations where the players seemed to think a free-for-all had been declared only to then find it was whistle and card time again. Odd.

Stats

Fairly low numbers this year from 32 appointments — 89 yellows (2.78) and just two reds so far, the second going Tyrone Mings way at Rotherham v Villa during the week. Biggest haul in a single game is seven which he managed at Ipswich 1-1 Derby. Swansea have lost their two appointments with him so far this season, 1-0 at Villa and 2-1 at Derby.

He refereed the last game of the season at Deepdale in 2017/18, where Burton were relegated after a 2-1 defeat despite Preston being down to ten men from the fiftieth minute after Billy Bodin was sent off. That one of two red cards Madley showed all season along with 137 yellows (2.9) in 47 games. The previous he finished up with 146 yellows and eight reds — including two sendings off in his final four appointments — in 43 appearances. The seven yellows and one red in Norwich’s 1-3 home reverse against Fulham in April topped the charts.

Madley also started 2015/16 in prolific form, rapidly racking up 28 yellows and three reds in his first eight appointments. That included eight yellows at Brentford v Reading and seven at Brighton v Blackburn which would be his biggest hauls of the season. After that he calmed down considerably, in fact he made it through the next 32 fixtures and the first three of this season without showing a red card again.

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