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Ever wondered about the match officials? Pride of Nottingham introduces this new feature 'The Match Officials', it's your chance to learn a little more about the people in charge on match days. It's aimed towards providing an insight into the games they've officiated, so that we can go into games knowing more about each one.

Well here we are, meet the match officials for our home game against Coventry City on the 08/02/2014. The referee is Carl Berry, with his assistances Joe Hull and Darren Strain. The fourth official is Robert Atkin.

Match Officials;

Referee; Carl Berry has taken control of six league games and one JPT cup tie. Within these 7 games, Carl's managed to avoid sending off a single player but has yellow carded 26 players in 6 of them. The only game in this current season which he's avoided using a card was on Saturday 30th November which saw Shrewsbury Town win away from home 3-1 against Stevenage FC.

Interesting Fact – Carl Berry sent off MK Dons manager Karl Robinson back in January 2012, Karl Robinson was so outraged after the game that he approached the match officials and was reported to say β€œI want a fair game, I want the right outcome. β€œPeople say that some go for you and some go against you but we’ve had no decisions that have won us a game this season.”.

You can follow Carl on Twitter - https://twitter.com/carljberry

Assistant Referees; Joe Hull's been fairly active playing mix roles so far this season. He's been an assistant within the Championship on numerous occasions, having been the 1st assistant 5 times, the 2nd official 4 times and fourth official once.

Darren Strain has spent the majority of this season assisting within League One. He's mainly been the 2nd official 6 times, whilst being the 1st official twice and the fourth official twice.

Interesting Fact – Joe Hull was the 1st Assistant in our earlier encounter this season against Coventry City, the well known game which saw Danny Haynes red carded.

The Fourth Official; Robert Atkin has mainly featured as a 1st assistant, which has seen him do so 4 times within this current season. He's been a second official once and has featured as the fourth official three times.

Interesting Fact – Out of the 8 games Robert Atkin as been a official 4 have resulted in draws, 2 home teams have one whilst 2 away have also won. Whilst our facts above only feature the league, Robert Atkin was the referee in a local game between Ilkeston FC and Grantham Town – His ability was questions by both managers in their post match comments.

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Edited by notts-joe

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you know i hope carl berry has a good game, those who see his account might be tempted to let him know how they feel. i dont think its wise for him to mention hes the same person!

interesting read, thanks joe.

upthepies

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Thanks for providing the information on the match officials Joe, I can now claim to know all this when they come up! Great job here!


Son of Berti

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This is a really good addition to the site .... I only wish that we had the twitter account details for the ref who did such an appalling job when we were home to Bristol City and the foul on Gary Liddle went unpunished!!!

I like this new feature it's interesting to read about the officials. It's also interesting to read that the ref has given an average of more than 4 yellow cards a game. I'm not sure he ought to let his twitter account known though, can you imagine the abuse if he has a bad game.

GrannyPie

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I like this new feature.Well done.


4everapie

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Didn't have a good 1st half, not protecting Grealish after some rash tackles on him, and a bad challenge on Freeman going unpunished.

He seemed an okay ref, as Cobby said to me if you don't notice the ref he's pretty good.

I thought some decisions was very fair, although I agree he missed some with Grealish but that's football. We won't get all decisions, it's just good to see him awarding us a deserved pen!

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