His assistants are A Rodda and P J Grove with A Watts the 4th official.
Steve Tanner from Somerset was in charge of City's 2 - 1 home win over Leeds last August, his only other previous City game was a 1 - 1 draw with Crewe the previous season.
He's fairly new to this level of refereeing with the 2004 / 2005 season being his first in the league structure.
So far this season in 4 matches he's dished out 8 yellow cards and 4 red.