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Sunderland host West Bromwich Albion on Saturday and the referee that has been assigned the game is Stuart Attwell.
Match Day referee Attwell has officiated six games in 2016/17 with a return of 20 yellow cards and two red cards.
This season his highest card count was seven yellows and two reds in the Oxford v Swindon Town game.
He took in 44 matches in 2015-16 and in those games, across all competitions and football divisions, he handed out a total of 118 yellow cards and four red cards.
He was most card happy in the match between Plymouth and Crawley on October 3 with a total of six yellows being shown.
The last time that Attwell took charge of a Sunderland game was February 2nd when he officiated the Black Cats home game against Manchester City. Sunderland lost the game 0-1 and there were five bookings.
Assisting Atwell on Saturday will be S Burt and D Bryan, Fourth official will be Martin Atkinson.
