D'Urso The Ref For City V Barnsley

Last updated : 22 February 2012 By Covsupport News Service

The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship game against Barnsley on Saturday ia Andy D'Urso from Essex.

Andy, whose hobbies include gardening and travel,  has been on the National list since 1994. He has also spent four years on the FIFA list.

This season, he has had 29 (nine of which have been Championship games) matches and shown 81 yellows and four red.

His last City match was the 2-1 home defeat to Nottingham Forest on February 1st 2011.

Other City matches that Mr D'Urso has been in charge of are the 2-0 win over Portsmouth in August 2010., the 1-0 home defeat by Derby County last season, the 4-1 defeat at Charlton Athletic on May 4th 2008, the 2-0 defeat at Norwich in November 2007, the 1-1 at Norwich in Feb 2007, the 1-0 home defeat to Birmingham City in October 2006, the 2-0 defeat at Palace in Nov 2005, the 2-0 home win against Forest in April 2005, the 2-0 defeat at Rotherham in December 2003, the 1-0 home win against Sheffield United in March 2002, the 2-1 win at Manchester City in August 2000, the 5-0 defeat at West Ham in April 2000, the 2-0 defeat at Liverpool in December 1999 and the 3-2 defeat at Tottenham in September 1999.

His assistants are Derek Eaton from Glucestershire and Chris O'Donnell from Bedfordshire The Fourth Official is Michael Blackledge from Cambridgeshire.