Mason again for the Lancs Derby

Last Season saw Preston win the game 3-2 and saw Burnley reduced to 9 men following the sending off of Chris McCann and Johannes Gudjonsson.

He has referred 5 matches this season and has booked 16 players and with one sent off. The two Championship matches he has refereed - Palace v Swansea and Charlton v Reading has seen 7 bookings and the red card of Sonko for Reading. His last match was on Wednesday which saw QPR beat Aston Villa at Villa Park in the Carling Cup.

His assistants are A. Butler and M.McDonough with the fourth official being T.Kettle.