Madley in the middle for Sunderland visit - referee
Thursday, 28th Aug 2014 22:17 by Clive Whittingham

Another of the Premier League’s newer referees, Robert Madley, is the man in the middle for QPR’s second home game of the season against Sunderland.

Referee >>> Robert Madley (West Yorkshire) fifth season on the Football League list — brother Andrew is also a referee in the Championship.

Assistants >>> Steve Child (Kent) and Matthew Wilkes (West Midlands) — Child also ran the line for Madley in his last QPR appointment at Brighton last season.

Fourth Official >>> Anthony Taylor (Cheshire), refereed QPR’s 4-0 defeat at Spurs last week.

History

Brighton 2 QPR 0, Tuesday March 11, 2014, Championship

Brighton threatened only very occasionally. A wayward shot from 20 yards out from man Utd loanee Jesse Lingard failed to trouble Green, then when the impressive Will Buckley cut in well from the right and drew a foul from Clint Hill referee Robert Madley played a good advantage that allowed Leonardo Ulloa to advance into the danger area but with the goal at his mercy and Keith Andrews an Lingard waiting for a tap in to his left he lashed the ball into the side netting. A real waste.

Brighton: Kuszczak 8; Bruno 7, Upson 7, Dunk 6, Ward 6; Andrews 7, Ince 7, Forster-Caskey 5 (Lua Lua 75, 6), Buckley 7 (Stephens 90, -); Ulloa 6, Lingard 5

Subs not used: RodrÃguez SÃ¡nchez, CalderÃ³n, Ankergren, March, LÃ³pez

Goals: Ulloa 77 (assisted Bruno), Ward 86 (assisted Lua Lua)

Bookings: Lingard 79 (foul)

QPR: Green 6; Onuoha 6, Hill 6, Dunne 6, Assou-Ekotto 5 (Maiga 79, 5); Barton 6, Jenas 7; Traore 7, Morrison 7, Hoilett 5; Keane 5

Subs not used; Hughes, Kranjcar, Benayoun, Murphy, O’Neil, Henry

Referee — Robert Madley (West Yorkshire) 9 No real controversial incidents in the game but I certainly can’t recall him getting very much wrong at all. Sensible refereeing, plenty of advantage, just the one card.

Stats

Madley has started his season with two Championship appointments that have produced one yellow card and one red. The sending off came at Brentford’s 1-1 draw with Birmingham when he upset both sets of supporters and players with an eccentric display.

Last season he was far more card happy than we experienced in that game at Brighton in general. He sent off ten players and booked 90 in 26 games. That included five red cards in his final nine fixtures and three separate hauls of six yellows and a red in a single game. His biggest haul in a single match was eight yellows in Swansea’s 3-3 draw with Stoke, where he also awarded the visitors a nonsense last minute penalty.
He’ll perhaps always be remembered for his Premier League debut at Southampton v West Brom last season where he sent off three players — Gaston Ramirez and Daniel Fox from the hosts, and Mar Antoine Fortune from the visitors — in 12 second half minutes. All the cards were fully justified though and he’s been placed in charge of five top flight games since.

Those cards at St Mary’s went towards last season’s total of eight reds and 105 yellows in 38 games — 2.76 bookings a game on average.