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Red Card Trigger Happy Referee To Officiate Saturdays Game

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This Saturday the Saddlers travel to Spotland to take on Rochdale hoping to continue our fine start to the season.

The match officials have been announced and red card happy Graham Salisbury is named as the referee.

Match officials are as follows

REFEREE – GRAHAM SALISBURY

LINESPEOPLE – BARRY CROPP AND HELEN BYRNE

FOURTH OFFICIAL – ANTHONY MOORE

Graham Salisbury has officiated four games this season and has already brandished one red card and two penalties GULP.

Last season Salisbury officiated thirty seven games and dished out one hundred and forty six yellow cards and thirteen reds.

Salisbury has officiated ten Walsall games in his career – with the Saddlers winning five, drawing two and losing three.

In those ten games he has only dismissed one player – Exeter’s Archibald Henville in 2010.

He officiated two Walsall games last season, our 1-1 home draw with Shrewsbury where he awarded Shrewsbury a penalty – and our 2-1 home defeat to Rotherham.

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