Ref Assessor - Cardiff City (A)

Select Group official Chris Foy is back officiating the Clarets for our trip to top of the league Cardiff, less than two months since he took charge of our trip to Stoke City.

His performance at Stoke was congratulated by most Clarets fans. In a game that could have boiled over he did well to remain in control and not to over-react as some referees would. He produced just the three cautions, Griffin for the home side and Elliott and Harley for the away side.

Foy did not officiate in a Burnley game last season but was twice officiating the Clarets in the 2004/05 season. One of those matches was the Carling Cup shock against Premiership Aston Villa. On that occasion he had a very good game allowing the game to flow freely. The only caution was for Tony Grant in a good natured match which also saw Robbie Blake fail to convert from the penalty spot.

The other game he officiated the Clarets in that season was in our goalless draw away at Rotherham. It was a match that was lacking in any real quality although this was a match in which Foy had little to get involved with. He only produced the one yellow card, cautioning Michael Duff.

He took charge of our Carling Cup exit at the hands of Wolves in the 2003/04 season, cautioning Graham Branch and Joey Gudjonson. Foy was also at Turf Moor for an interesting start to the season. It was a match in which he produced four yellow cards and two red cards in a match that also saw five goals. Crystal Palace were the side who picked up the two red cards with Wayne Routledge sent-off after 10 minutes and then in the second half Shaun Derry picked up the second red card of the game.

Despite being down to nine men it was still enough for Palace to win 3-2. Palace had been 1-0 up due to a penalty by Dougie Freedman but then went 2-1 down. They then came back to 2-2 with ten men, and then took the lead and held out with Freedman grabbing a hat-trick.

Foy is not usually a referee who goes mad with the cards and last season he produced 103 yellow cards from 43 games, he also produced 10 red cards. This season he has refereed fourteen matches, 7 of which have been in the Premiership. He has produced 36 yellow cards and has shown just the one red card to Paul Heckingbottom of Barnsley.

He will be assisted by Mr. Adam Watts and Mr. Andy Williams. The 4th official will be Mr. Andrew Sainsbury.