Referee Robert Johnston

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Robert Johnston

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	-	Robert Johnston (Bonnyrigg)	10.02.1996 Kilmarnock [h] L0-1 (SFL Premier Division - game 26)	0		-	-	0	0	L0-5
	-	Robert Johnston (Bonnyrigg)	12.10.1996 East Fife [h] W6-0 (SFL First Division - game 9)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Robert Johnston (Bonnyrigg)	02.01.1999 Cowdenbeath [h] W5-2 (Scottish Cup 2nd Round)	0	0	0		0	0	W2-0
	-	Robert Johnston (Bonnyrigg)	13.03.1999 Clyde [h] L0-1 (SFL Second Division - game 29)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
	-	Robert Johnston	10.11.2001 Falkirk [h] W5-1 (SFL First Division - game 14)							L12-13
	-	Robert Johnston	24.11.2001 Airdrieonians [a] L0-1 (SFL First Division - game 16)	0	0			0	0	D3-3
	-	Robert Johnston	26.01.2002 Dundee [h] D1-1 (Scottish Cup 4th Round)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
	-	Robert Johnston	24.03.2002 Rangers [n] L0-3 (Scottish Cup Semi Final)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
	-	Robert Johnston	04.12.2002 Dundee [a] L1-4 (Scottish Premier League - game 18)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
	-	Robert Johnston	26.04.2003 Motherwell [h] W3-0 (Scottish Premier League - game 34)	0	0			0	0	W3-1
	-	Robert Johnston	07.12.2003 Motherwell [h] W1-0 (Scottish Premier League - game 15)	0	0			0	0	D1-1
	-	Robert Johnston	05.05.2004 Hibernian [a] W2-1 (Scottish Premier League - game 36)	0	0	0		0	0	W2-0
12	0	← Totals →	12	1	2	19	20	1	1	L29-33

Robert Johnston's Summary
Average crime count per game	5.17 pts
The crime count % balance	47-53 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.583 (W6 D1 L5)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 07-Nov-2025

Thistle's Historical Summary
Average crime count per game ᵃ	1.454 pts
Average crime count per game ᵇ	4.626 pts
The crime count % balance	48-52 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.412 (W2749 D1434 L2674)
ᵃ from 1886-87 to 1996-97 (see crime count notes)
ᵇ from 1997-98 to date (see crime count notes)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 15-Nov-2025

	Crime Count notes
	5 pts are allocated for a penalty, in favour of whichever team is awarded the kick. Our data is comprehensive from 1891-92 (the season of introduction) to date.
	1 pt is allocated for any given player's first yellow card, the point being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is booked and vice-versa. Second yellows are always ignored as superfluous. We introduce the yellow card count from season 1997-98 onwards as our records are comprehensive and meaningful from that season onwards. Official cautions began in the 1940s and we continue to (casually) build such data with a view to, perhaps, setting an earlier date for our yellow card analysis. Incidentally, the actual yellow card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.
	4 pts are allocated for sending offs, the points being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is sent-off and vice-versa. Our crime count database is 'open for business' from 1886-87 onwards as this was the first season that the English FA decreed that the referee had the power to send a player off, although the first known in a Scottish game wasn't until a season later and the first known in a Thistle game wasn't until 1891. Our data is comprehensive from then to the present day. As per the yellow, the actual red card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.