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Ref Watch Behind Closed Doors Refwatch ... Salford (A)

Mick

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The man in charge tomorrow will be Carl Boyeson from Hull, an experienced official in his 19th season who will be officiating his 15th Southend match. A central heating technician, aged about 50ish, he is one of the longest serving referees on the Football League List.

So far in his matches we have won 4, lost 7 and drawn the other 3.

His most recent Southend match was at Peterborough towards the premature end of last season. The promise of a goalless first half soon disappeared and we went down 4-0 picking up 5 yellows in the process (Elvis, Mantom, McLaughlin, Milligan and Demetriou) to their one.

Before that he hadn’t done a Southend match for over two years, the previous being our 1-0 defeat at Portsmouth in 2017/18. They got the only goal, we got the only yellow card – John White.

The next most recent went rather well. It was the visit to Fleetwood a couple of months earlier. He sent off a home player after about half an hour and we had a comfortable 4-2 away win. The only other card of the match was a yellow for them.

Before that his last Southend match was the 0-0 draw at Walsall in 2016/17. Three yellows apiece, ours going to Timlin, Ferdinand and Cox.

The one before that was 2014/15 at Shrewsbury. It was 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 at Blackpool, played all 10 minutes of his Southend career), where he didn't caution anyone and previously a late 4-3 defeat at Hartlepool the season before (two yellows each - Hunt and Macca). Earlier matches included another win over Walsall, another defeat at Leicester (caution for Barrett), a rare home defeat 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.

This season his 6 matches have seen 21 yellows and no reds.

Assisting will be ex-Aston Villa ball-girl and one time mascot at the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final between Lazio and Mallorca, Lisa Rashid from Birmingham. The other Assistant is Conor Brown, a passionate supporter of Rochdale AFC and employed by Manchester FA as the Referee Duty of Care and Appointments Officer. These two ran the lines together at Burton last season when we picked up an unlikely point.

Fourth Official is Gary Hilton from Upholland near Wigan.
 
When Boyeson started his League career, Salford City were playing the likes of Abbey Hey, Squires Gate, Alsager Town and Ramsbotton United ..... oh yes, and Fleetwood Town.
 
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