Mick
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Since the 4-4 draw seventeen years ago (a match in which goals were so easy to come by, Dublin got 2 ), York's visits to Roots Hall have barely troubled the scorers. Seven games have produced just 6 goals: three 0-0s , three 1-0s and the comparative goal glut of our 2-1 win in the cut price match last season.
That match was rather poorly refereed by Darren Sheldrake.
Co-incidentally, Saturday's game sees the return of that very same Darren Sheldrake.
He is from Kingston in Surrey and is in his sixth year as a Football League referee.
That York match last year was an opportunity for him to atone for a woeful and inconsistent display earlier that season away at Wycombe when he cautioned Prosser and White and 3 home players in a match we could, and should, have won.
However that opportunity was spurned and his reputation sank even lower with a poor performance including a dismissal for Hurst and a caution for Kiernan along with a red and a couple of yellows for them.
His refereeing career has progressed quickly making the National List just 12 years after taking up the whistle at the age of 14. His progress has been steady without any suggestion of any great potential and he has been given a surprising number of Championship matches over the last couple of seasons, although none since September.
He has refereed Southend eight times before. Firstly the dull 0-0 at home to Exeter five seasons back (just the one caution for Scannell).
Then he refereed the home match against Lincoln which we won 1-0 the following season (cautions for Mohsni and Timlin and a couple of theirs). Then, in 2011/12, he was a late replacement for the JPT home defeat by Swindon when he cautioned Gilbert and 3 of theirs. Just before the Swindon match he did the East Thurrock/Macclesfield FA Cup tie when a bad error probably cost the non-league side the tie.
The fourth match was the season before last's very disappointing home defeat thanks to a very early and a very late goal from Aldershot. He cautioned just two of theirs. Then came the match which was probably his and our easiest of the lot - the Boxing day win at Dagenham with a solitary caution for one of theirs. Then our impressive 2-1 win at Port Vale when he cautioned 4 of theirs and Lund for us and finally that Wycombe match followed by the York one.
Not a referee I've got a lot of time for. He can be inconsistent and prone to over-reaction and also, at times, a bit quick with his cards, although his 18 matches thus far this season have produced only a slightly above average 59 yellows but a very high 8 reds (oh dear).
He last refereed York earlier this season for their win at Stevenage with a home player sent off.
Assistants are Chris O'Donnell from Leighton Buzzard and Lee Venamore from Maidstone and the Fourth Official is Dave Bushell from London.
That match was rather poorly refereed by Darren Sheldrake.
Co-incidentally, Saturday's game sees the return of that very same Darren Sheldrake.
He is from Kingston in Surrey and is in his sixth year as a Football League referee.
That York match last year was an opportunity for him to atone for a woeful and inconsistent display earlier that season away at Wycombe when he cautioned Prosser and White and 3 home players in a match we could, and should, have won.
However that opportunity was spurned and his reputation sank even lower with a poor performance including a dismissal for Hurst and a caution for Kiernan along with a red and a couple of yellows for them.
His refereeing career has progressed quickly making the National List just 12 years after taking up the whistle at the age of 14. His progress has been steady without any suggestion of any great potential and he has been given a surprising number of Championship matches over the last couple of seasons, although none since September.
He has refereed Southend eight times before. Firstly the dull 0-0 at home to Exeter five seasons back (just the one caution for Scannell).
Then he refereed the home match against Lincoln which we won 1-0 the following season (cautions for Mohsni and Timlin and a couple of theirs). Then, in 2011/12, he was a late replacement for the JPT home defeat by Swindon when he cautioned Gilbert and 3 of theirs. Just before the Swindon match he did the East Thurrock/Macclesfield FA Cup tie when a bad error probably cost the non-league side the tie.
The fourth match was the season before last's very disappointing home defeat thanks to a very early and a very late goal from Aldershot. He cautioned just two of theirs. Then came the match which was probably his and our easiest of the lot - the Boxing day win at Dagenham with a solitary caution for one of theirs. Then our impressive 2-1 win at Port Vale when he cautioned 4 of theirs and Lund for us and finally that Wycombe match followed by the York one.
Not a referee I've got a lot of time for. He can be inconsistent and prone to over-reaction and also, at times, a bit quick with his cards, although his 18 matches thus far this season have produced only a slightly above average 59 yellows but a very high 8 reds (oh dear).
He last refereed York earlier this season for their win at Stevenage with a home player sent off.
Assistants are Chris O'Donnell from Leighton Buzzard and Lee Venamore from Maidstone and the Fourth Official is Dave Bushell from London.
