Mick
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Monday night's match has been entrusted to experienced official, Nigel Miller from not very nearby Durham.
This is his seventh season as a League referee and this will be his sixth Southend match and his fifth Southend away game. We haven't actually won any of his away matches although we nearly did at Luton, also on TV, when Eastwood hit the post near the end in 2006/7. He also did the Southampton away end of season hammering that year when he booked Macca (don't they all). These away games were sandwiched between two League defeats at Donny (2003/4 and 2007/8).
The home game he did, we actually won against Oldham in 2005/6.
These 5 matches only accrued 4 yellow cards between them; expect that to be passed on Monday night if recent derby matches are a pointer. His yellow card count is lower than average but his red card count is higher.
In his mid to late forties, he looks older! He is another of the hairless referees sometimes with a moustache which makes him look a little like a military man.
Attracted some fairly serious criticism on a number of occasions but he has been okay whenever I've seen him.
Assistants are Adrian Sannerude driving down the A12 from Lowestoft and Michael George (I think I've got that in the right order) from North Walsham in Norfolk. As it's on TV, you get a proper referee as 4th official; in this case, co-incidentally, Pat Miller, a regular referee of Southend games.
This is his seventh season as a League referee and this will be his sixth Southend match and his fifth Southend away game. We haven't actually won any of his away matches although we nearly did at Luton, also on TV, when Eastwood hit the post near the end in 2006/7. He also did the Southampton away end of season hammering that year when he booked Macca (don't they all). These away games were sandwiched between two League defeats at Donny (2003/4 and 2007/8).
The home game he did, we actually won against Oldham in 2005/6.
These 5 matches only accrued 4 yellow cards between them; expect that to be passed on Monday night if recent derby matches are a pointer. His yellow card count is lower than average but his red card count is higher.
In his mid to late forties, he looks older! He is another of the hairless referees sometimes with a moustache which makes him look a little like a military man.
Attracted some fairly serious criticism on a number of occasions but he has been okay whenever I've seen him.
Assistants are Adrian Sannerude driving down the A12 from Lowestoft and Michael George (I think I've got that in the right order) from North Walsham in Norfolk. As it's on TV, you get a proper referee as 4th official; in this case, co-incidentally, Pat Miller, a regular referee of Southend games.
