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Tomorrow's referee is the usually very decent Dean Whitestone from Northampton, in his eighth season as a Football League referee. He is a referee we have seen a lot of at Roots Hall but not much away from home.
His last Southend match was actually an away match back in January, first league match in our winless run, when we drew 1-1 at Dagenham. A yellow for Prosser and three of theirs. Having started our winless League run perhaps he could do the decent thing and end it too.
His most recent appearance at Roots Hall was the match last season where the fans helped clear snow from the pitch and were rewarded with an abject 3-1 home defeat against Wimbledon. He did fine though with, once again, a yellow for Prosser and three of theirs.
Before that it was an excellent performance in the home Cup game against Brentford. Just the one yellow for Woodyard.
Previously, his last Southend match was the game at Shrewsbury the season before last, a match which for me, more than any other, cost us promotion. A match that was there for the taking after an early home dismissal. He also cautioned Timlin and Dickinson and their keeper in a strong refereeing performance.
He has refereed ten games at Roots Hall. He was here twice three seasons ago for the league win against Torquay and the Cup replay with Macclesfield (just 2 and 3 cautions respectively). The season before that saw two visits also. Firstly, the Friday night 0-0 draw with Millwall, when he did pretty well in the face of some uncompromising football from the visitors; he cautioned 5 of theirs and a couple of ours. He also did the home 1-1 draw with Wycombe, cautioning 3 of theirs and one of ours.
Prior to that, his most recent visits were five seasons ago for the opening game win over Peterborough (when three visitors were cautioned) and later that season against Tranmere when we won 2-1 (again three visitors were cautioned). Before that was the 1-0 defeat against Carlisle the previous season in which his performance was probably better than the 8 cautions might imply. His other visit was in 2006/7 when he officiated in the Leicester home draw in which he sent off Richie Foran. Previously to that, in the same season, he was in charge of the away draw at Coventry which I believe he refereed reasonably well.
He is an up and coming referee who had a spell in the "talent group" and gets plenty of Championship appointments. His card count is decidedly the right side of average with 74 yellows and 4 reds from 28 games.
Assisting are Carl Fitch, a school teacher from Ipswich, and Dean Treleaven from Portsmouth. The 4th Official needs no introduction, he is Darren Deadman from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. He is a civil servant, specifically a public transport officer for Peterborough City Council. It is to be hoped Whitestone lasts the full 90 minutes.
His last Southend match was actually an away match back in January, first league match in our winless run, when we drew 1-1 at Dagenham. A yellow for Prosser and three of theirs. Having started our winless League run perhaps he could do the decent thing and end it too.
His most recent appearance at Roots Hall was the match last season where the fans helped clear snow from the pitch and were rewarded with an abject 3-1 home defeat against Wimbledon. He did fine though with, once again, a yellow for Prosser and three of theirs.
Before that it was an excellent performance in the home Cup game against Brentford. Just the one yellow for Woodyard.
Previously, his last Southend match was the game at Shrewsbury the season before last, a match which for me, more than any other, cost us promotion. A match that was there for the taking after an early home dismissal. He also cautioned Timlin and Dickinson and their keeper in a strong refereeing performance.
He has refereed ten games at Roots Hall. He was here twice three seasons ago for the league win against Torquay and the Cup replay with Macclesfield (just 2 and 3 cautions respectively). The season before that saw two visits also. Firstly, the Friday night 0-0 draw with Millwall, when he did pretty well in the face of some uncompromising football from the visitors; he cautioned 5 of theirs and a couple of ours. He also did the home 1-1 draw with Wycombe, cautioning 3 of theirs and one of ours.
Prior to that, his most recent visits were five seasons ago for the opening game win over Peterborough (when three visitors were cautioned) and later that season against Tranmere when we won 2-1 (again three visitors were cautioned). Before that was the 1-0 defeat against Carlisle the previous season in which his performance was probably better than the 8 cautions might imply. His other visit was in 2006/7 when he officiated in the Leicester home draw in which he sent off Richie Foran. Previously to that, in the same season, he was in charge of the away draw at Coventry which I believe he refereed reasonably well.
He is an up and coming referee who had a spell in the "talent group" and gets plenty of Championship appointments. His card count is decidedly the right side of average with 74 yellows and 4 reds from 28 games.
Assisting are Carl Fitch, a school teacher from Ipswich, and Dean Treleaven from Portsmouth. The 4th Official needs no introduction, he is Darren Deadman from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. He is a civil servant, specifically a public transport officer for Peterborough City Council. It is to be hoped Whitestone lasts the full 90 minutes.
