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Referee Peter Bankes will take charge of the Tyne-Wear derby.<\/p>\nThe team of officials has now been revealed for Sunday’s clash at the Stadium of Light<\/p>\n
17:19, 08 Dec 2025Updated 17:29, 08 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Referee Peter Bankes will take charge of the Tyne-Wear derby.<\/p>\n
Newcastle United and Sunderland<\/a> have learned who the team of officials will be on Sunday at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n The man in the middle will be referee Peter Bankes of Lancashire with the 43-year-old assisted by Eddie Smart and Blake Antrobus as linesmen. Simon Hooper is the fourth official on Wearside this weekend.<\/p>\n And it will be Stuart Attwell, fresh from two penalty awards at St James’ Park against Burnley on Saturday in the 2-1 win, who will be in action in the VAR box.<\/p>\n Assistant VAR will be Alex Chilowicz, with a day of drama likely to be in store for the Magpies and Black Cats.<\/p>\n Bankes has been in charge of two Newcastle games this season, having officiated the home wins against Nottingham Forest and Fulham. He awarded Eddie Howe’s side a penalty against Forest, which Nick Woltemade guided home.<\/p>\n But Bankes was booed off at St James’ Park when failing to clamp down on fouls on Woltemade in the 2-1<\/a> win over Fulham this season. Woltemade’s shirt was pulled continuously without punishment earlier this season.<\/p>\n He got a slight taste of a northern clash when he refereed the 0-0 draw with Leeds at Elland Road earlier in the season, booking Nick Pope in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n Bankes has only sent off a Newcastle player once in his career when dismissing Valentino Lazaro back in the 2019\/20 season in a 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n Lazaro was sent for an early bath when pulling back Wilfried Zaha in a clear and obvious professional foul at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n Here at ChronicleLive, we are dedicated to bringing you the best Newcastle United<\/a> coverage and analysis.<\/p>\n Make sure you don’t miss out on the latest NUFC news by joining our free WhatsApp group. You can get all the breaking news and best analysis sent straight to your phone by clicking here<\/a> to subscribe.<\/p>\n You can also subscribe to our free newsletter service. Click here<\/a> to be sent all the day’s biggest stories.<\/p>\n And, finally, if you would rather listen to our expert analysis then make sure to check out our Everything is Black and White podcast. Our shows are available on all podcast platforms, including Spotify<\/a> and Apple Podcasts<\/a>, and you can also watch along on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team of officials has now been revealed for Sunday’s clash at the Stadium of Light 17:19, 08…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2806,101,2904,122424,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-305612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-newcastle-united-fc","tag-sports","tag-sunderland-afc","tag-tyne-wear-derby","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}