Championship

Birmingham City

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This season's numbers

Birmingham City and each referee

League games since 2021-22, referees with 3 or more. Records like these are mostly chance: across five seasons, a club's record with a referee in one half of their games tells you nothing about the other half. Which refs are card-happy?

RefereePW-D-LPts/g Cards/gRef's usualFouls net/g
G Ward 14 4-2-8 1.00 1.7 1.9 +2.1
D Webb 12 1-2-9 0.42 1.5 1.6 +0.7
J Busby 11 6-1-4 1.73 1.6 1.8 +2.8
M Donohue 10 1-7-2 1.00 2.4 2.1 +2.5
A Davies 9 1-3-5 0.67 0.8 1.7 −0.2
J Linington 9 4-1-4 1.44 2.7 2.0 +5.2
K Stroud 9 1-2-6 0.56 3.0 2.4 +2.6
S Martin 8 4-2-2 1.75 2.5 2.0 +4.4
D Whitestone 7 2-1-4 1.00 1.4 1.6 +1.6
T Kirk 7 3-1-3 1.43 2.4 2.1 +2.4
B Toner 6 5-1-0 2.67 2.3 2.1 +3.8
D Bond 6 1-2-3 0.83 2.0 2.0 +1.2
J Smith 6 3-1-2 1.67 2.3 2.0 +2.0
L Doughty 6 2-3-1 1.50 2.8 2.2 −1.2
O Langford 6 4-1-1 2.17 1.8 1.8 +1.8
T Robinson 6 4-1-1 2.17 2.5 2.2 +4.8
A Herczeg 5 2-2-1 1.60 1.8 1.8 +1.8
S Allison 5 2-0-3 1.20 2.2 1.9 +2.8
A Backhouse 4 3-1-0 2.50 2.5 2.0 −1.3
G Scott 4 0-4-0 1.00 2.5 1.8 +1.0
J Bell 4 1-1-2 1.00 2.3 1.9 −1.0
J Simpson 4 1-2-1 1.25 1.0 2.0 +0.8
L Smith 4 2-1-1 1.75 2.5 1.9 +4.3
M Salisbury 4 0-1-3 0.25 0.8 1.9 −1.3
T Bramall 4 2-1-1 1.75 2.3 1.9 +4.8
A Kitchen 3 1-2-0 1.67 2.0 1.5 −1.0
A Woolmer 3 0-2-1 0.67 2.0 1.7 +4.0
F Hallam 3 3-0-0 3.00 1.3 1.8 +0.3
G Eltringham 3 1-1-1 1.33 0.7 2.0 +4.0
R Jones 3 3-0-0 3.00 1.7 2.0 +0.7
R Welch 3 1-0-2 1.00 2.7 1.9 +3.0
S Hooper 3 1-0-2 1.00 2.3 2.0 +6.0
W Finnie 3 0-3-0 1.00 0.7 1.6 −2.7

Manager changes

Points per game in the 10 league games before and after. If kept: what clubs on the same run of form averaged when they kept their manager. Does sacking the manager work?