Same old refs

So tomorrow we have Neil Swabrick for the 4th time this season. On a thread about Marriner notching up his 4th game a while back i showed how many times we have been given each referee this season. There are 18 referees on the PL Elite list.

Law of averages (and fairness) would suggest you should get 1 home game and 1 away game with any referee plus 2 other games. (This might change slightly depending on referees stated allegiances although i don't think that is an issue in our case, most refs are northern)

Here is how we fare:

Refereed us 4 times
Kevin Friend
Andre Marriner
Michael Oliver
Neil Swarbrick*

Refereed us 3 times
Mike Dean
Jonathan Moss

Refereed us 2 times
Stuart Attwell
Robert Madley
Anthony Taylor

Refereed us 1 time
Martin Atkinson
Chris Kavanagh
Lee Mason
Craig Pawson

Not refereed us this season
Roger East
Mike Jones
Lee Probert
Graham Scott
Paul Tierney

*Swarbrick includes this weekend.

Whether they are any good or not is an ongoing question however surely it is not right that we constantly get the same ones over and over again.

70% of out games have been officiated by just 33% of the referees available.