{"id":956930,"date":"2026-05-13T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:32:23","slug":"who-are-the-referee-and-var-for-brighton-at-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956930\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the referee and VAR for Brighton at Leeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  And he might hope for a similar trouble-free afternoon to that he supervised when the teams met at the Amex.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Oliver will take charge of events at Elland Road as Leeds look to celebrate safety in style while the Seagulls chase their European ambitions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He had the whistle when Albion won the home fixture 3-0 and blew for just 17 fouls while showing a single yellow card, to Ethan Ampadu.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Oliver tends to be a man for the big occasion and his recent appointments have included Everton v Manchester City, Chelsea v Manchester United, Manchester City v Liverpool in the FA Cup and Real Madrid v Bayern Munich in the Champions League.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His 42 games so far across all competitions and both club and international football have brought 153 yellow cards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There have also been three reds, of which one was in a World Cup qualifier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The most high-profile of his dismissals was the straight red shown to Spurs skipper Cristian Romero at Manchester United.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Albion last saw Oliver when they lost 2-1 at Fulham and he also reffed their 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An experienced officiating team also includes Stuart Attwell as video assistant in Stockley Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The full officiating team for Leeds v Albion is as follows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Referee: Michael Oliver.\u00a0Assistants: Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring.\u00a0Fourth official: Sam Allison.\u00a0VAR: Stuart Attwell.\u00a0Assistant VAR: Constantine Hatzidakis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And he might hope for a similar trouble-free afternoon to that he supervised when the teams met at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-956930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}