TREVOR KETTLE will be in charge when Town tackle Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park on Sunday (2.00).
It will be the experienced Rutland referee’s fourth League I game this season and 12th in all, the most recent being Saturday’s Championship clash between Sheffield United and Cardiff, which the Welsh side won 4-3.
Kettle, who works as an air traffic controller, has issued 34 yellow cards this time around but no reds, and last refereed Town at Walsall last season, when Lee Clark’s team won 3-2.
This is his eighth season on the League list.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has accepted a charge of improper conduct following his comments on the fitness of referee Alan Wiley.
Ferguson, who criticised Wiley following United’s 2-2 draw with Sunderland at Old Trafford on October 3, has requested a personal hearing. The date for that has yet to be decided.
The United boss, 67, has faced calls for him to be given a lengthy touchline ban by the referees’ union Prospect as a consequence of the comments.
Ferguson said: “He was not fit enough for a game of that standard. The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. He was not fit. It is an indictment of our game.”
