Referee: Michael Salisbury
Assistant Referees: Richard West and Sam Lewis
Fourth Official: Robert Jones
Like The Bees, Michael Salisbury was celebrating promotion in the summer as one of four officials added to the Select Group 1 of top flight referees for the 2021/22 campaign. That promotion came just a year after he was added to the Select Group 2 of Sky Bet Championship officials.
Michael was influenced to take up the whistle by his father, Graham, who ended his own 21-year career as an EFL referee at the end of last season.
After progressing through his local leagues in Preston, Salisbury's first taste of the professional game came in 2010 as an Assistant Referee in the Football League. Five years later he was added to the National League referees list, a year before progressing to the EFL list.
Since then, Michael has officiated in eight different countries and visited Wembley Stadium six times, refereeing the Sky Bet League Two Play-Off Final in June 2020 which saw Charlie Goode and Northampton Town run out 4-0 winners against Exeter City.
Salisbury's only two Brentford appointments so far have both ended in Sky Bet Championship wins for Thomas Frank's side. They came courtesy of last November's 3-0 success at Luton Town and April's 1-0 home win over Rotherham United.
So far this campaign there have been 15 yellow cards and three reds handed out in Salisbury's five matches.
Stoke City 21/22
150 fouls - 11th in Sky Bet Championship
25 yellow cards - 14th in Sky Bet Championship
1 red card - 3rd most in Sky Bet Championship
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