Mick
Life President
Southend have a tremendous home record against Walsall in the League, having lost only 3 times in 37 matches (25 wins and 9 draws).
The man in charge on Saturday is Andy Davies from Hampshire, who has just started his fourth season as a Football League referee. He is a former professional with Portsmouth, Gillingham and Yeovil, who had to stop playing through injury at the age of 28 so turned to refereeing in 2003.
He refereed Southend twice during his first season with no complaints about either of them - perhaps not surprising as we won them both.
Firstly, he oversaw our early steps towards our first Wembley visit against Wimbledon. A 2-1 win with cautions for Straker and Spicer (and one of theirs). The other match was the impressive 4-1 win at Torquay, with two cautions apiece (ours were Barker and Phillips) and a red card for them.
His third Southend match was our 2-0 home win against Northampton 2013/14, White was cautioned and they had a yellow and a red.
His other Southend match was last year's home 1-1 draw with Oxford when two crucial decisions both went against us. We also picked up 4 yellows (White, Atkinson, Leonard and Thompson) to their two.
His card-count is above average with 296 yellows and 17 reds from his 83 match career to date. He has just had one cardless match. He got plenty of Championship appointments last season.
Assisting will be a Rob MacKay from Bedford and Adrian Sannerude from Lowestoft who will be picking up 4th Official Nicholas Cooper from Ipswich on his way down the A12.
The man in charge on Saturday is Andy Davies from Hampshire, who has just started his fourth season as a Football League referee. He is a former professional with Portsmouth, Gillingham and Yeovil, who had to stop playing through injury at the age of 28 so turned to refereeing in 2003.
He refereed Southend twice during his first season with no complaints about either of them - perhaps not surprising as we won them both.
Firstly, he oversaw our early steps towards our first Wembley visit against Wimbledon. A 2-1 win with cautions for Straker and Spicer (and one of theirs). The other match was the impressive 4-1 win at Torquay, with two cautions apiece (ours were Barker and Phillips) and a red card for them.
His third Southend match was our 2-0 home win against Northampton 2013/14, White was cautioned and they had a yellow and a red.
His other Southend match was last year's home 1-1 draw with Oxford when two crucial decisions both went against us. We also picked up 4 yellows (White, Atkinson, Leonard and Thompson) to their two.
His card-count is above average with 296 yellows and 17 reds from his 83 match career to date. He has just had one cardless match. He got plenty of Championship appointments last season.
Assisting will be a Rob MacKay from Bedford and Adrian Sannerude from Lowestoft who will be picking up 4th Official Nicholas Cooper from Ipswich on his way down the A12.