Mick
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Matches against Bury of late have been nothing if not close.
The last 5 have been draws and the 5 before that were either draws or 1-0s.
Tomorrow's referee is a bald man from the armed forces, which will not please everybody! However he's one of the better ones of that ilk.
Man in charge will be 42year old, Darren Drysdale from Lincolnshire. A sergeant in the RAF, on the human resources side, he began refereeing in 1988, officiating in the Northern Alliance and Northern Premier League, became an assistant referee for the Football League in 1996, and in1997 progressed to being a Conference North referee. In 1998 he was appointed as an assistant referee for the Premier League, and two years later was given the honour of being an assistant referee to Graham Poll in the 2000 FA Cup Final, he also became a FIFA assistant referee in the same year. In 2002, he became a UEFA assistant referee, one of only three from the UK at the time. He was appointed to the Football League List of referees in 2004.
He attracted some media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five-match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford. He was dropped from the list a couple of years later and is now in his second spell as a League referee. Apparently he used to drive a top of the range Bentley with personalised number plates.
We have seen little of him over his 10 years; just six matches.
The most recent match was last season's Friday night 3-0 victory over Mansfield which turned into a bit of a cardfest with a red for Clifford and two reds and three yellows for them. A difficult match to referee and he did what he had to do reasonably well.
Prior to that it was the unforgettable Cup replay at Brentford, when he (and Smith) did rather well. One caution for Prosser. He rushed to congratulate Smith at the final whistle.
Before that it was the 3-2 away win the season before last at Bristol Rovers when any criticism would have centred on a slightly soft penalty. He sent off one of theirs and booked Tomlin and Phillips. Before that he brought the curtain down on the season before with the home play-off match against Crewe which, of course, we drew 2-2. Four cautions - one for us (Grant) and 3 for them including a controversial one for simulation.
Previously, it was a 3-2 home defeat by Coventry in 2006/7 (2 yellows apiece) and the 2-1 win at Port Vale the following season when Macca got the winner (we shaded the yellows 3-2).
Card count is bang on average this season with 2 reds and 29 yellows from 10 games (Mind you, I said the same last year before the Mansfield game). His last three matches have all been Championship appointments.
Assistants are Elliott Kaye from Hainault and Graham Kane (no relation to the hat-trick scoring goalkeeper) from Ditchling, just north of Brighton. Regular visitor Nigel Lugg from Chipstead stands by as Fourth Official.
The last 5 have been draws and the 5 before that were either draws or 1-0s.
Tomorrow's referee is a bald man from the armed forces, which will not please everybody! However he's one of the better ones of that ilk.
Man in charge will be 42year old, Darren Drysdale from Lincolnshire. A sergeant in the RAF, on the human resources side, he began refereeing in 1988, officiating in the Northern Alliance and Northern Premier League, became an assistant referee for the Football League in 1996, and in1997 progressed to being a Conference North referee. In 1998 he was appointed as an assistant referee for the Premier League, and two years later was given the honour of being an assistant referee to Graham Poll in the 2000 FA Cup Final, he also became a FIFA assistant referee in the same year. In 2002, he became a UEFA assistant referee, one of only three from the UK at the time. He was appointed to the Football League List of referees in 2004.
He attracted some media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five-match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford. He was dropped from the list a couple of years later and is now in his second spell as a League referee. Apparently he used to drive a top of the range Bentley with personalised number plates.
We have seen little of him over his 10 years; just six matches.
The most recent match was last season's Friday night 3-0 victory over Mansfield which turned into a bit of a cardfest with a red for Clifford and two reds and three yellows for them. A difficult match to referee and he did what he had to do reasonably well.
Prior to that it was the unforgettable Cup replay at Brentford, when he (and Smith) did rather well. One caution for Prosser. He rushed to congratulate Smith at the final whistle.
Before that it was the 3-2 away win the season before last at Bristol Rovers when any criticism would have centred on a slightly soft penalty. He sent off one of theirs and booked Tomlin and Phillips. Before that he brought the curtain down on the season before with the home play-off match against Crewe which, of course, we drew 2-2. Four cautions - one for us (Grant) and 3 for them including a controversial one for simulation.
Previously, it was a 3-2 home defeat by Coventry in 2006/7 (2 yellows apiece) and the 2-1 win at Port Vale the following season when Macca got the winner (we shaded the yellows 3-2).
Card count is bang on average this season with 2 reds and 29 yellows from 10 games (Mind you, I said the same last year before the Mansfield game). His last three matches have all been Championship appointments.
Assistants are Elliott Kaye from Hainault and Graham Kane (no relation to the hat-trick scoring goalkeeper) from Ditchling, just north of Brighton. Regular visitor Nigel Lugg from Chipstead stands by as Fourth Official.