Well he did our 5-1 mauling at Blackburn this season but last season - believe it or not - he did our 1-0 win at Preston!
Premier League ref Darren England up on Saturday at Reading. Not done many City games. Notably a 3-0 win at Huddersfield a few years back.
Ref for tomorrow night is Lee Swabey. I can't see we have had the pleasure of his company before. Looks a bit of a journeyman ref who has never refed a Championship match in his 8 year EFL career. He has been in charge for 8 Pompey league games in that time. They won them all. Not a good omen. Also fine 3 Pompey cup games in various competitions. Lost 2 of the 3. Will give him the benefit of the doubt until we see how he performs. I see one of my ex-Christmas card friends, Kevin Friend, has retired. Cheerio!!! Pity Stroud and Hooper didn't go as well. Hooper did a prem game at the weekend. WTF!!!
Well he wasn’t was he? Denied a blatant pen and then down to 10 men. Plus has anyone ever seen a ref with a hair band before
Mr. Madley' history with us going back 8 seasons to 14/15. 11 games, 6 wins, 5 defeats. Best win 4 - 2 v Birmingham in 19/20. Biggest defeat 1 - 3 v Liverpool in last season's Cup. A 0 - 2 v Wendies, first home game 20/21 wasn't a good result. Going to be a draw then. I can't recall any good or bad about him. Anyone else enlighten us?
He sent off rather harshly a Sunderland player in our 4-0 drubbing of them in Warnock’s promotion team. He gave us a mystery penalty in our 4-2 win v Bham and sent off both Danny Ward & Harley Dean. He failed to both send off Liverpool’s keeper last season and award a penalty for a foul on Harris.