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Mick

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Only one win each in matches between us and Fleetwood, the other 6 games being drawn.

The referee will be Carl Boyeson from Hull, an experienced official in his 16th season who will be officiating his 12th Southend match. A central heating technician in his late forties, he is one of the most experienced referees on the Football League List.

So far in his matches we have won 3, lost 5 and drawn the other 3.

His last Southend match was a little under a year ago for the 0-0 draw at Walsall. Three yellows apiece, ours going to Timlin, Ferdinand and Cox.

The one before that was 2014/15 at Shrewsbury. A 1-1 draw with Tyrone Barnett and Jack Payne getting a goal apiece. Again, the yellow cards were even, this time a 1-1 draw with Coker getting ours.

Before that was a poor performance, not by him especially, but by us. It was the 2-1 defeat at Northampton in 2013/14 with yellows for Timlin and Phillips and one of theirs. Prior to that, his last two Southend matches both finished up 3-0. More recently the 3-0 victory in 2009/10 against a woeful Walsall side. No complaints with an early dismissal and two yellows, all to the visitors. Before that was the 3-0 defeat in the early kick-off match at Leicester in 2008/9 (the match in which Liam Feeney, now on loan at Cardiff, played all 10 minutes of his Southend career), where he didn't caution anyone and previously a late 4-3 defeat at Hartlepool the previous season (two yellows each - Hunt and Macca). Earlier matches included another win over Walsall, another defeat at Leicester (caution for Barrett), a rare home match in 2005/6 when we lost to Port Vale (again a draw on cautions 1-1 Mark Bentley and Billy Paynter) but nothing especially noteworthy other than a good win at Rochdale in 2002/3 with three cautions each - Jones, J. Smith and Beard for us.
I've always thought him to be a decent, steady journeyman of a referee, but he was never likely to be selected for the full-time Select Group 2. Was one of the .. er bulkier referees when he started out. Not so now and clearly coping with the rigours of the fitness tests.

Last season's card count was unusually high - an above-average 139 yellows and 10 reds from 36 games. This followed twelve seasons of well below average card showing.

This season his 7 matches have seen an average 21 yellows and a high 4 reds.

Assistants are Alf Greenwood from York and Paul Newhouse from Peterlee in Durham. Kevin Mulraine from Carlisle will be the Fourth Official.
 
I notice the club have just produced a "ref watch"...never be as good as our Micks's, though !
 
I notice the club have just produced a "ref watch"...never be as good as our Mick's, though !

Judge for yourself:
"Last season Boyeson brandished 139 yellow cards and 10 red cards.

Saturday will be Boyeson’s tenth Southend game that he will officiate. His last Southend game came when Blues visited Walsall on 26th November last season which saw him brandish six yellow cards in the game with three cards going to Blues players, they were Anton Ferdinand, Michael Timlin and Simon Cox.

He started his refereeing career in the English Football Division 3 back in 2002. His first game came on 17th August 2002 when Bury won 3-2 against Swansea in a league game. Since then he has gone on to referee in League One with his most recent game coming on 16th September when Wigan beat Bristol Rovers 3-0.

Throughout his career he has shown 1,374 yellow cards and 100 red cards during his 15-year refereeing career
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Since then he has gone on to referee in League One ? They seem to have glossed over his 80+ games in the Championship.
 
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