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We hold a narrow lead over Coventry for all time League wins (17-16) but haven't beaten them at Roots Hall since 1961 when goals from Peter Corthine and Jim Fryatt gave us a 2-0 victory.
Man in charge tomorrow will be sixth year referee Brendan Malone from Salisbury refereeing his ninth Southend match.
His most recent match was last year's home 0-0 draw with Cambridge. One yellow apiece - Timlin for us. Before that, also last season, the 2-0 defeat at Plymouth when he upset Phil Brown in a match which produced 6 yellows for the home team and a yellow and red for Bolger and a yellow for Thompson who replaced Bolger at the back after his very early dismissal.
Before that it was the 2-2 home draw with Barnet in 2012/3. Yellow for Timlin and 4 of theirs.
A year before it was our inevitable win at Hereford. Prior to that it was 2011/12's home match against an inept Port Vale side when a 3-0 victory gave us our first home League win for a couple of months. They had one sent off and a couple of yellows with just Benyon cautioned for us.
He was in charge of the "dead" match, our fourth game against Macclesfield in 2010/11. Previously he was a late replacement for the Gillingham home game also that season (2-2, 5 yellows, 4 theirs, 1 ours) and, more memorably, before that he refereed the abandoned match at Cheltenham and the rather more successful re-arranged fixture. He cautioned Barry Corr for time wasting right at the end.
He has shown just 42 yellows from 19 games (well below average) and 3 reds. This includes a few Championship matches. Last week he did Col U's late, late defeat by Sheff Utd.
The Assistants are Andrew Laver from Portsmouth and Chris Pollard from Stowmarket, whose father was linesman at the 1999 League Cup Final at Wembley. Fourth Official is decent non-league referee Alan Young from Ely who works as Referee Development Manager for the Cambridgeshire FA.
Man in charge tomorrow will be sixth year referee Brendan Malone from Salisbury refereeing his ninth Southend match.
His most recent match was last year's home 0-0 draw with Cambridge. One yellow apiece - Timlin for us. Before that, also last season, the 2-0 defeat at Plymouth when he upset Phil Brown in a match which produced 6 yellows for the home team and a yellow and red for Bolger and a yellow for Thompson who replaced Bolger at the back after his very early dismissal.
Before that it was the 2-2 home draw with Barnet in 2012/3. Yellow for Timlin and 4 of theirs.
A year before it was our inevitable win at Hereford. Prior to that it was 2011/12's home match against an inept Port Vale side when a 3-0 victory gave us our first home League win for a couple of months. They had one sent off and a couple of yellows with just Benyon cautioned for us.
He was in charge of the "dead" match, our fourth game against Macclesfield in 2010/11. Previously he was a late replacement for the Gillingham home game also that season (2-2, 5 yellows, 4 theirs, 1 ours) and, more memorably, before that he refereed the abandoned match at Cheltenham and the rather more successful re-arranged fixture. He cautioned Barry Corr for time wasting right at the end.
He has shown just 42 yellows from 19 games (well below average) and 3 reds. This includes a few Championship matches. Last week he did Col U's late, late defeat by Sheff Utd.
The Assistants are Andrew Laver from Portsmouth and Chris Pollard from Stowmarket, whose father was linesman at the 1999 League Cup Final at Wembley. Fourth Official is decent non-league referee Alan Young from Ely who works as Referee Development Manager for the Cambridgeshire FA.
