There's probably something about referees and buses in there but, in all
honesty, they're nothing like each other.
Just to re-cap, up until last week's defeat at Fulham, he had refereed
just one other Everton match in the last three seasons and that was last
term's 0-1 defeat at home to
So we have a reverse clean sweep when Mr Atkinson is the man in the
middle.
The good news though is that Villa's record isn't much better.
Up until he refereed their 1-1 draw with Tottenham last month , the only
match he had taken charge of since 2004/05 was last season's 0-5 webbing
at Arsenal.
The other good news is that at least it isn't Graham Poll!
"Hi I'm MArtin Atkinson...you may remember me from such games as Portsmouth at home and Fulham away..."