Langford in charge of Forest visit - referee Thursday, 10th Apr 2014 23:24 by Clive Whittingham For the second time this season, West Midlands official Oliver Langford is in charge of QPR as they host Nottingham Forest on Saturday. Referee >>> Oliver Langford (West Midlands), second QPR appointment of the season following earlier 2-1 defeat at Doncaster. Assistants >>> Paul Harris (Kent) and Gavin Muge (Bedfordshire) Fourth Official >>> Iain Williamson (Berkshire) HistoryDoncaster Rovers 2 QPR 1, Saturday November 30, 2013, Championship Doncaster grew in belief that there was more than a point here for them. A counter attack with Robinson at its heart drew a yellow card from Dunne for a shirt pull in back play and then the Irish centre half had to flick a header behind as Rovers players queued up to convert the cross. Federicho ‘Smokey’ Macheda shot into the side netting with a now silent away following fearing that one of Rangers’ worst loanees in recent memory might come back to haunt them, and Khumalo came up for a corner but headed over. Doncaster: Turnbull 5; Quinn 5, Khumalo 6, McCullogh 6, Stevens 6; Coppinger 6, Furman 6, Wellens 7, Duffy 7; Robinson 6, Macheda 7 Subs not used: Paynter, Cotterill, Maxted, Wakefield, Woods, De Val, Paterson Goals: Robinson 48 (unassisted), Quinn 89 (assisted Duffy) Bookings: Wellens 51 (foul) Turnbull 90 + 4 (time wasting) QPR: Green 6; Simpson 6, Dunne 6, Hill 6, Assou-Ekotto 5; Barton 6, O’Neil 5 (Johnson 63, 6); Phillips 5, Jenas 4, Kranjcar 4 (Hoilett 77, 6); Austin 6 Subs not used: Traore, Carroll, Onyewu, Henry, Murphy Goals: Austin 43 Bookings: Dunne 81 (foul), Jenas 90 + 3 (foul) Referee — Oliver Langford (West Midlands) 7 Not much to referee, with QPR not really in the mood to be competitive, but allowed a poor game to flow as best he could. Should have got to drips with Turnbull’s time wasting a lot sooner — a card in the fourth minute of injury time isn’t much of a deterrent really — but as QPR did nothing when the ball was in play it’s difficult to get too upset about that. http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/13772/rochdale-pros 0 Rochdale 2, Tuesday August 23, 2011, League Cup A Taarabt through ball on the hour might have been the moment of magic the game begged for, but it rolled just out of Andrade’s reach and through to Lucas. A little controversy may have livened things up too but when Grimes ran onto a long, high through ball that Shittu had misjudged and then tried to whip it back over the head of the big Nigerian his penalty appeals for a perceived handball were rightly ignored by referee Oliver Langford. Whether my Langford actually knew what handball was however was open to debate as a moment later when Stephen Darby miscontrolled the ball and decided to bring it down with his hand instead in plain sight of the match official who ignored it and played on. QPR: Murphy 5, Orr 5 (Harriman 31, 6), Perone 6, Shittu 5, Connolly 6, Ephraim 5, Rowlands 5 (Derry 72, 5), Andrade 6, Taarabt 4, Cook 4 (Hewitt 73, 5), Bothroyd 4 Subs Not Used: Cerny, Buzsaky, Gibbons, German Rochdale: Lucas 7, Darby 7, Holness 7, Balkestein 8, Widdowson 7, Tutte 7, Kennedy 7, Jones 7, Adams 8, Grimes 8 (Thompson 83, -), Akpa Akpro 7 Subs Not Used: Edwards, Twaddle, Marshall, Gray Booked: Widdowson (foul) Goals: Akpa Akpro 5 (assisted Adams), Jones 81 (assisted Adams) Referee: Oliver Langford (W Midlands) 6 No key decisions wrong but failed to play obvious advantages on numerous occasions and missed the most obvious handball I’ve ever seen in my life from Darby in the second half. QPR 1 Peterborough 1, Saturday September 12, 2009, Championship Before half time Whelpdale had a half hearted penalty appeal waved away, Zakuani was rightly carded for a clumsy foul on Simpson and Ephraim burst into the penalty area but dragged a low shot across the face of goal and wide of the far post. Cerny comfortably tipped a Morgan free kick over the bar but when the same player headed wide from a corner he was a mile away from it and was then grateful to see Rowe’s low shot deflected wide of the target later in the half. Certainly it was Peterborough rather than Rangers who came home with a wet sail. Connolly and Borrowdale were both booked for fouls on Frecklington and Batt respectively as frustration grew around Loftus Road. QPR: Cerny 5, Leigertwood 6, Connolly 6, Stewart 6, Borrowdale 5, Routledge 6, Watson 6, Faurlin 6 (Rowlands 58, 5), Ephraim 5 (Buzsaky 69, 6),Simpson 6, Taarabt 6 (Vine 58, 4) Subs Not Used: Heaton, Ramage, Mahon, Pellicori. Booked: Connolly (foul), Borrowdale (foul) Goals: Routledge 34 (assisted Simpson) Peterborough: Lewis 6, Martin 6, Morgan 6, Zakuani 6, Williams 7,Whelpdale 6 (Batt 70, 6), Frecklington 7, Diagouraga 6, Boyd 7 (Rowe 65, 6),McLean 8, Mackail-Smith 6 Subs Not Used Booked: Zakuani (foul), Batt (foul) Goals: Mclean 16 (assisted Williams) Referee: Oliver Langford (W Midlands) 8 Very little to referee in his first ever Championship match but he seemed calm, in control and willing to give the game every chance to flow. Very few complaints about his performance at all. StatsSo far this season Langford has averaged just over 2 yellow cards a game with 66 bookings in 32 appointments. He’s sent four players off this season, but two of those came in the same Watford v Middlesbrough match and one of them was our very own resident African mentalist Samba Diakite so that can almost be struck from the record. His biggest haul from a single game is seven yellows in Rotherham’s 1-0 win at Brentford in October. Last season he showed a very low 60 yellows and four reds in 37 games — I can’t ever recall writing up a referee with an average as low as 1.67 yellows a match over a full season. He kept his cards in his pocket altogether on 11 occasions and showed just a single yellow card in five other games. His last Doncaster appointment was a 2-1 away win at Shrewsbury in League One last season where he showed no yellows, but did send off the home side’s David McAllister deep into the second half. The last time Rovers were in the Championship (2011/12) he refereed their 3-0 defeat at Derby and 0-0 draw at home to Cardiff. Other ListingsFA Cup >>> Well, Andre Marriner’s nadir at Chelsea v Arsenal hasn’t done his immediate career prospects any harm — he has Hull v Sheffield United in the FA Cup semi-final this weekend. League Two >>> Trevor Kettle has Mansfield v Rochdale, sympathies to both. 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