[Football- England 'Championship'] 20.11/ 20:45 Coventry-Birmingham
Putting it simply, today's matchup is a Midlands derby and is being controlled by a card happy referee, Oliver Langford.
Langford is the referee for today's match and no referee has shown more yellow cards than him in the Championship this season.
He's produced a total of 38 yellows and one red in seven league games at an average of 5.4 yellow cards per game, while he also gives on average, 25 fouls per game, which offers plenty of carding opportunity.
To add more ammunition to the pick, his only red card produced this season was to Birmingham's Adam Clayton so he's got history with Birmingham and I'm sure the Birmingham players along with the referee will have some negative emotions from that previous sending off.
It's also to be noted that both sides rank highly for tackles per game at 15.5 and 15 respectively, while Birmingham rank fourth for fouls at 14.3 per game.
These stats lead me to believe that there should be fouls in this match.
In his last six Championship matches, Langford’s produced a minimum of five cards.
Given Langford’s "rule with cards" style and the emotionally charged derby battle, I have no doubts that Langford will produce a card or two in the match. I simply hope that in this case he follows the trend of his last six championship matches and produces at least four cards for us to get our win.
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[Football- England 'Championship'] 20.11/ 20:45 Coventry-Birmingham
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