Haines in charge of Wednesday visit - referee Monday, 19th Oct 2015 21:15 by Clive Whittingham Andy Haines makes the long journey down from Tyne and Wear this Tuesday night to take charge of QPR v Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship. Referee Andy Haines (Tyne and Wear) Assistants Matthew Buonassisi (Northants) and Ian Fissenden (Kent) Fourth Official Brendan Malone (Wiltshire) PreviouslyBurnley 2 QPR 0, Saturday October 26, 2013, ChampionshipDanny Ings scored twice to take his tally for the season to 13 already. The first was an emphatic finish past Robert Green having burst through a Danny Simpson challenge into the penalty box at the end of an incisive move with more cut and thrust in ten seconds than QPR could muster all afternoon. That came immediately after Green had appeared fortunate to be let off by replacement match referee Andy Haines for collecting a back pass from Benoit Assou-Ekotto in his gloves, and as a direct result of possession concession in midfield by Karl Henry, and there was more defensive confusion two minutes from time when another swift attack from the home team culminated in Joey Barton felling Ings in the box allowing the former Bournemouth man a chance to whack home a second, killer goal from the penalty spot. In the stands the home crowd — of remarkable size given Burnley’s small population and remote location — were in boisterous mood. Referee Haines dismissed a bumble bee mascot from the touchline early on — never a good sign that a referee cannot tell the difference between a footballer and a man in an eight-foot tall bee costume — and later Joey Barton was struck on the head by a bottle of Coke thrown from the side stand as Burnley fans wasted the remaining seconds of the game by holding onto the ball. Chants of “we are top of the league” were sung with late-April gusto a week from the end of October and a large inflatable penis was tossed back and forth for shits and giggles. In the end it was a frustrating day, not helped greatly by referee Haines — in for the poorly Simon Hooper — who went on a card spree in the first half that eventually declared at six in a game of perhaps two serious fouls. Richard Dunne can have few complaints about his yellow for a tackle on David Jones so late I’m not sure it’s actually arrived now and Jones himself was long overdue his booking when it finally arrived but Burnley’s Keith Treacy and his opposite number Junior Hoilett can count themselves unlucky. Not, though, as unlucky as Joey Barton who was booked very early on for nothing more than Burnley had been let off with to that point — the suggestion that his reputation precedes him with referees at this level is a hard one to shake at the moment. Burnley: Heaton 6; Trippier 7, Mee 6, Duff 6, Shackell 6; Treacy 6 (Stock 90, -), Marney 6 (Edgar 83, -), Jones 7, Kightly 6; Ings 8, Vokes 7 Subs not used: Lafferty, Stanislas, Cisak, Long, Noble Goals: Ings 65 (assisted), 88 (penalty, won Ings) Bookings: Jones 35 (repetitive fouling), Treacy 42 (foul) QPR: Green 5; Simpson 6, Dunne 6, Hill 7, Assou-Ekotto 5; Henry 5 (Jenas 68, 5), Barton 6, O’Neil 6 (Chevanton 73, 5), Kranjcar 6 (Phillips 73, 5), Hoilett 5; Austin 5 Subs not used: Traore, Onyewu, Murphy, Faurlin Bookings: Barton 25 (foul), Hoilett 36 (foul), Dunne 38 (foul), Simpson 76 (foul) Referee — Andy Haines (Tyne and Wear) 6 A late replacement for Simon Hooper, and rather too quick with the cards for my liking. I felt he booked Joey Barton too early and for much less than he’d let others away with, and as a result then embarked on a quick-fire round of yellow cards aimed at appeasing both sets of fans and players in an evening up exercise. That said, the big decision of the game (the penalty) was correct and there were no major foul ups. Huddersfield 1 QPR 1, Saturday 10 August, 2013, Championship The visitors lived up to their southern-softie, big-time-Charlie billing in some ways. With Ale Faurlin injured they selected Esteban Granero in the centre of midfield alongside Karl Henry — the former looked like he’s rather be anywhere else, the latter got progressively worse the harder he tried. When Granero was slow to react and lazy with a tackle on the half hour Paterson had a clear sight of goal but having rode a rash tackle from Hill he dragged a shot in inch wide of the post. The Spaniard later became embroiled in a prolonged debate with referee Andy Haines about the air pressure in the ball during which another opponent was allowed to run in behind him. When it happened again he cynically yanked back Adam Hammill leaving Haines no choice but to book him. When Hill lost the ball in his own half he redeemed himself with a shuddering slide tackle and more often than not Huddersfield attacks ended at the feet, or on the head, of his centre back partner Onuoha who could have played here in his club suit. Danny Simpson was less comfortable at right back but almost struck his second goal in as many games with an immaculate first touch setting him up for a 25 yarder that that bounced wide of the post via a deflection with Smithies beaten. The referee awarded a goal kick. Respite came for a 20 minute period in the second half where literally nothing happened. Honestly, it was like an episode of Lorraine on ITV. When referee Haines decided he was going to hold the game up every time QPR had a corner — which was reasonably often — to run across and check that Joey Barton had placed the ball correctly within the quadrant I could feel my brain shutting down its systems one by one and start to pulp itself — a permanent vegetative state infinitely preferable to watching any more of this turgid nothingness. Huddersfield: Smithies 8, Clarke 6, Lynch 6, Gerrard 6, Norwood 6, Carroll 6 (Hunt 63, 6), Hammill 5 (Ward 72, 6), Gobern 6 (Scannell 82, -), Clayton 7, Vaughan 7, Paterson 6 Subs not used: Bennett, Wallace, Crooks Stead Goals: Vaughan 35 (assisted Norwood) Bookings: Lynch 73 (foul) QPR: Green 6, Simpson 6, Hill 6, Onuoha 7, Suk-Young 6, Barton 7, Granero 5 (Wright-Phillips 70, 6), Henry 5 (Jenas 84, -), Hoilett 7, Johnson 6, Austin 7 Subs not used: Murphy, Dunne, Ehmer, O’Neil, Zamora Goals: Hoilett 38 (assisted Suk-Young) Bookings: Granero 15 (foul) Referee — Andy Haines 7 I do hope we’re not going to have this pedantic nonsense over the corners in every match this season. First and foremost I wish Barton would just place the bloody ball in the quadrant and be done with it — on the new pitches at this time of the year there’s nothing to be gained by moving it slightly outside anyway and it’s purely done to antagonise people. But that said is it really necessary for the referee to run all the way out of the box and check every time? During once farce in the second half he made Barton re-spot the ball and then watched as he put it back in exactly the same place. What difference half an inch anyway? Just get on with the bloody game. Fairly decent apart from that, no major calls wrong. Preston 1 QPR 1, Saturday February 19, 2011, Championship To be blunt, I don’t think Hulse has anything at all to contribute to QPR. He is lazy, he refuses to even attempt a header, does not link up play and gives away needless free kicks. He was on the pitch for about 10 minutes yesterday, yet a quick look on the official website and he conceded more fouls than anyone else on the pitch — three in total. All of which came from him needlessly pushing players in the back instead of fairly challenging for the ball. Preston: I Turner, B Jones, S St. Ledger, L Cort, D Gray, B Nicholson, I Ashbee, K Treacy, A Barton (P Parry, 75), E Johnson (P Hayes, 55), N Ellington (J Proctor, 82) Goals: Nicholson 64 Bookings: Ashbee, Treacy, Gray QPR: P Kenny, C Hill, B Orr, M Connolly, K Gorkss, W Routledge (A Buzsaky, 86), S Derry, A Taarabt, A Faurlin, I Miller (P Vaagen Moen, 61), H Helguson (R Hulse, 74) Subs not used: F Hall, P Chimbonda, D Shittu, R Cerny Goals: Helguson 37 Bookings: Routledge, Derry, Gorkss
Preston 2 QPR 2, Saturday March 27, 2010, Championship Rangers were forced onto the back foot almost straight from the kick off when Kaspars Gorkss was harshly penalised for a foul on Neil Mellor by referee Andy Haines and Ross Wallace’s delivery went all the way across the face of Ikeme’s goal and behind without receiving a touch. A minute later Rangers failed to cope with a basic, long, straight free kick into the penalty area which Parkin won comfortably in the air and nodded down to Ross Wallace whose shot was blocked away for a corner. When not taking the free kicks himself Wallace made a point of standing a good five or six yards offside behind the QPR defence so it was frustrating on this occasion that having become active when receiving the ball from Parkin the flag was not raised — although the way the modern offside rule is structured he was technically ok to play on, however ridiculous that may seem to everybody in the ground apart from the officials. It was Preston’s turn to feel aggrieved with the referee on the quarter hour though when Matt Hill gave the ball away with a poor pass, then rashly hacked down Billy Jones in an attempt to rectify the situation and escaped without a booking. With that offence still fresh in the mind Hill was yellow carded for a more meagre trip on Richard Chaplow ten minutes later with Haines keen to stress that the accumulation of fouls had brought the sanction, rather than that one particular innocuous incident. Preston didn’t have to wait long for another opportunity as Haines continued to blunder his way through the game, this time penalising Damion Stewart for the cleanest defensive header you could ever wish to see. I have to say despite the outrage at the decision I couldn’t help but laugh at Stewart’s foot stamping, arm swinging, two year old in the super market tantrum in front of the referee — a six foot three, 16 stone Jamaican man behaving like that is quite a sight — and in the end it worked out in our favour as Wallace drilled his free kick into the wall and Rangers then stormed away down the left flank and a better first touch from Antonio German on the edge of the area would have had him racing clean through on goal after more quality approach play and a fine pass from Adel Taarabt. German, and his manager, both immediately put their hands on their heads knowing what an excellent opportunity that had been to take the lead. It was hugely frustrating therefore to see the R’s fall behind eight minutes before the break. A fine challenge by Kaspars Gorkss in the area toed the ball away from Mellor and out for a corner which Ross Wallace came across to take. The Scottish midfielder then plonked the ball down by the corner flag and absolutely leathered it straight at Hogan Ephraim, who had chased back to try and prevent the set piece and was now dealing with his socks a yard away from where the corner was to be taken. Wallace went absolutely mental, demanding Ephraim be booked and then sticking his forehead in Ephraim’s face like some wild stag. It was the most amazing piece of behaviour I’ve seen for some time on a football field and reminded me of that bloody Dario Gradi Crewe team that got players booked as a matter of routine by immediately slamming free kicks against any opponent who happened to be passing within the ten yard radius at the time of the award. Ephraim seemed to find the whole thing very amusing but Rangers may well have switched off as the referee calmed things down by the touchline because when Wallace did eventually get round to taking a proper corner his mishit, low effort was allowed to fly right to the centre of the goal past the statuesque defenders and Billy Jones, up from the back for Preston, had time for two touches before he slammed the ball into the roof of the net with his third. As soft a goal as you’re ever likely to see conceded. Sadly the dregs of society to the left of the away end were able to leap around like caged zoo animals ten minutes after the break as Preston doubled their advantage. Again it came against the run of play, Taarabt had had a shot saved by Lonergan just before it, and again it came from Stewart and Gorkss’ total failure to deal with the physical threat posed by the Preston forwards. A routine ball into the area from the left caused all manner of problems with Gorkss never once the right side of his man, in the end the Latvian wrestled Parkin to the ground for, whatever Neil Warnock says, a clear and obvious spot kick. As Rangers have found out before Preston are just about the worst side you can give a penalty away to as the division’s most reliable spot kick taker Callum Davidson rarely gives goalkeepers a sniff of a chance. You’ll never see a better finish from 12 yards than his one on Saturday — it went like an exocet missile into the top corner before Ikeme even realised it had been taken. Superb. With Rangers throwing every man possible forward gaps at the other end were inevitable. Mellor volleyed a half chance over the bar in Preston’s next attack, then missed a glorious chance to seal the victory when the Rangers defence melted away in front of him, although Gorkss had good cause to seek explanation from the referee as Parkin blatantly barged him over off the ball to prevent him getting to Mellor, but Ikeme produced a superb save one on one to deny the former Liverpool man. That miss proved crucial as Rangers stormed to the other end and equalised. Preston: Lonergan 8, Jones 7, St. Ledger 6, Ward 5, Davidson 5, Wallace 6, James 7, Chaplow 6, Carter 6 (Sedgwick 59, 7), Mellor 6, Parkin 7 (Brown 71, 6) Subs Not Used: Henderson, Hart, Mawene, Chilvers, Barton Booked: Carter (foul), Chaplow (kicking ball away), St. Ledger (foul), Mellor (foul) Goals: Jones 37 (assisted Wallace), Davidson 56 (penalty) QPR: Ikeme 8, Ramage 7, Stewart 5, Gorkss 5, Hill 5, Faurlin 6, Leigertwood 7, Priskin 6, Ephraim 7, Taarabt 9 (Buzsaky 90), German 6 (Vine 46, 7) Subs Not Used: Cerny, Cook, Balanta, Tosic, Oastler Booked: Hill (repetitive fouling), Taarabt (kicking ball away) Goals: Ramage 57 (assisted Taarabt), Priskin 66 (assisted Taarabt) Referee: A Haines (Tyne and Wear) 6 A bit card happy, it was never a six card match, and had a crazy ten minutes in the first half where several dodgy free kicks were awarded on the back of failing to spot an obvious Preston corner from Wallace’s free kick. Got the penalty decision right though I think.
StatsA heft 28 yellows and two reds already for Haines this season, in just seven matches refereed so far. This will be only his second Championship game of the season, with the other six spaced out between League One and League Two. Last season he was far less card-happy — booking 75 and sending off just three in 28 appointments. He showed two yellows to Bolton players as Wednesday drew there 0-0 at the start of the campaign, his last appointment with the Owls. Other ListingsChampionship >>> Stuart Attwell has Forest v Burnley, can only be a matter of time before we’re cursed with him again. League One >>> Darren Deadman has Colchester v Port Vale, the poor loves. Tweet @loftforwords Pictures — Action Images Photo: Action Images Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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