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The referee for tonight's match is Oliver Langford from Darlaston, near Walsall in the West Midlands.
In his fifth season as a Football League referee, he has only refereed Southend four times before. First was the dreadful match (until the last minute anyway) at Leyton Orient in 2008/9. He didn't excel, but did better than the players. The second was the low key paint thing at Milton Keynes the following season. In both of those games he seemed to find it easier to caution away players than home ones.
His third Southend match was the 1-4 home defeat by Swindon last season when he cautioned Timlin, Kalala and, for them, Macca.
His fourth was earlier this season and somewhat controversial. In the 2-0 defeat at Oxford he only showed two soft yellow cards. Unfortunately they were both for Timlin.
His yellow card count must be one of the lowest in the League with just 31 yellows from 18 matches, which have also seen 3 red cards.
Assistants are Craig Hicks from Sutton who works for Surrey FA and Mark Mellor from Hemel Hempstead with Paul Kelly from Gillingham as 4th Official.
In his fifth season as a Football League referee, he has only refereed Southend four times before. First was the dreadful match (until the last minute anyway) at Leyton Orient in 2008/9. He didn't excel, but did better than the players. The second was the low key paint thing at Milton Keynes the following season. In both of those games he seemed to find it easier to caution away players than home ones.
His third Southend match was the 1-4 home defeat by Swindon last season when he cautioned Timlin, Kalala and, for them, Macca.
His fourth was earlier this season and somewhat controversial. In the 2-0 defeat at Oxford he only showed two soft yellow cards. Unfortunately they were both for Timlin.
His yellow card count must be one of the lowest in the League with just 31 yellows from 18 matches, which have also seen 3 red cards.
Assistants are Craig Hicks from Sutton who works for Surrey FA and Mark Mellor from Hemel Hempstead with Paul Kelly from Gillingham as 4th Official.