Championship

Preston North End

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Preston North End 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
J Busby 16 7-5-4 1.63 2.0 1.8 +1.4
J Smith 16 6-3-7 1.31 2.1 2.0 +0.2
S Martin 14 2-3-9 0.64 2.0 2.0 +2.1
D Webb 13 5-6-2 1.62 2.1 1.6 +1.3
M Donohue 13 4-5-4 1.31 3.0 2.1 +1.1
G Ward 11 5-2-4 1.55 2.7 1.9 +2.5
O Langford 11 2-3-6 0.82 1.8 1.8 +1.6
J Simpson 8 2-2-4 1.00 1.4 2.0 +1.3
R Madley 8 0-3-5 0.38 2.9 2.0 +2.1
T Bramall 8 3-3-2 1.50 2.0 1.9 +4.1
A Kitchen 7 2-1-4 1.00 2.0 1.5 +0.4
D Whitestone 7 6-1-0 2.71 2.7 1.6 +3.9
J Linington 7 4-2-1 2.00 2.6 2.0 +0.7
L Smith 7 2-3-2 1.29 1.9 1.9 0.0
G Eltringham 6 1-2-3 0.83 2.3 2.0 −2.8
K Stroud 6 2-1-3 1.17 3.0 2.4 +5.3
T Robinson 6 2-2-2 1.33 2.5 2.2 +4.0
A Woolmer 5 2-2-1 1.60 1.8 1.7 +2.0
F Hallam 5 2-1-2 1.40 2.8 1.8 0.0
A Davies 4 1-3-0 1.50 2.0 1.7 +3.3
B Toner 4 0-2-2 0.50 2.5 2.1 −2.3
D Bond 4 1-1-2 1.00 2.3 2.0 +1.3
S Allison 4 0-2-2 0.50 2.8 1.9 +0.8
T Harrington 4 3-0-1 2.25 1.5 1.8 −0.8
A Backhouse 3 2-0-1 2.00 3.0 2.0 +3.7
J Bell 3 0-2-1 0.67 2.0 1.9 +2.7
L Doughty 3 1-0-2 1.00 2.3 2.2 −4.0
T Kirk 3 0-3-0 1.00 1.3 2.1 +2.0

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?