Bates In Charge of Blues v Leicester

Birmingham City take on Leicester City on Saturday and the man who will be in charge of things is Anthony Bates from Staffordshire.

The last time Bates was in charge of a Blues game was early last season when Birmingham beat Coventry 1-0 at St Andrews, David Bell of Coventry was the only player who was shown a card which was yellow.

So far this season Bates has been in charge of seven games and has issued 20 yellow cards, on the brighter side he has not show a red card.

Assistants on Saturday will be Anthony Tankard and David Benton

Fourth Official will be Tim Robinson.