Mick
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A mere 1,245 days and 193 refwatches ago, we won a home League match on a Tuesday evening! Even that was courtesy of a late winner after Mohsni had earlier been sent off.
On the face of it, we will never get a better chance to end that record than against a Cheltenham team in free-fall who have won just one of their last 15 League matches. (Mind you we probably said the same about Hartlepool, Dagenham, Aldershot (twice) and Wimbledon (twice) during that run!).
Anyway, the man in charge is fourth year referee Carl Berry from Cheam in Surrey who is the UK and Ireland Distribution Manager for a major provider of network security appliances.
He has refereed Southend five times before - firstly, 2011/12’s opener and customary win against Hereford at home. He did okay as far as I can recall with Hereford just shading the yellow cards 3-2.
The second was the 1-0 defeat at Bristol Rovers the same season when a somewhat "soft" late Harrold penalty clinched the points. We had a good shout for a penalty ourselves which was marginally outside the box. One yellow apiece with Prosser getting ours.
Thirdly was a far from convincing performance in the home win against Rochdale in 2012/13 and later in the same season as a late replacement at Barnet which saw a 2-0 defeat both with goals and cards. Prosser again and Hurst.
Finally, he made the long trek up to Tranmere for our 2-1 win back in last November. Yellows for Bolger, Timlin and Corr and a couple of theirs.
His card count is well above average with 74 yellows and 5 reds (all for double yellows) from 20 matches.
Assisting will be Neil Davies from London and Wade Norcott from Harlow Ryan T Atkin, also from London acting as 4th Official.
On the face of it, we will never get a better chance to end that record than against a Cheltenham team in free-fall who have won just one of their last 15 League matches. (Mind you we probably said the same about Hartlepool, Dagenham, Aldershot (twice) and Wimbledon (twice) during that run!).
Anyway, the man in charge is fourth year referee Carl Berry from Cheam in Surrey who is the UK and Ireland Distribution Manager for a major provider of network security appliances.
He has refereed Southend five times before - firstly, 2011/12’s opener and customary win against Hereford at home. He did okay as far as I can recall with Hereford just shading the yellow cards 3-2.
The second was the 1-0 defeat at Bristol Rovers the same season when a somewhat "soft" late Harrold penalty clinched the points. We had a good shout for a penalty ourselves which was marginally outside the box. One yellow apiece with Prosser getting ours.
Thirdly was a far from convincing performance in the home win against Rochdale in 2012/13 and later in the same season as a late replacement at Barnet which saw a 2-0 defeat both with goals and cards. Prosser again and Hurst.
Finally, he made the long trek up to Tranmere for our 2-1 win back in last November. Yellows for Bolger, Timlin and Corr and a couple of theirs.
His card count is well above average with 74 yellows and 5 reds (all for double yellows) from 20 matches.
Assisting will be Neil Davies from London and Wade Norcott from Harlow Ryan T Atkin, also from London acting as 4th Official.
