Mick
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Head to head League matches with Fleetwood have gone measure for measure with 2 wins each and 6 draws (although we have a lead of 2 on goal difference). Both clubs' away records have been better than their home ones in these clashes.
Saturday's man in charge will be a familiar figure. It's Charles Breakspear from Walton-on-Thames, a shaven headed clone whose game rarely rises above adequate. Will we get a tragedy or perhaps a comedy. A comedy of errors perhaps? Anyway here is the history:
He has refereed ten Southend matches previously and in the first two he sent off an opposing player. Sadly we only got a defeat and a draw (and subsequent penalty shoot-out defeat) to show for our numerical advantage. The last eight we did somewhat better picking up three wins and a three draws and a good number of bookings !
He is in his sixth season as a League referee and, for me, he is another one who falls into the "lucky to still be there" category. He has had a high card count throughout his League career and this season he was an early leader in the red card stakes with 5 from his first 5 games - but his last 5 games haven't produced a single red.
Those previous matches were, firstly, our 3-1 home defeat to Morecambe in 2013/14. Their sub got a red just 7 minutes after coming on and there was a yellow apiece (Timlin for us) and in 2014/15 he presided over the JPT match at Wimbledon where unusually all four cards (3 yellows and a red) went to the home team.
His next Southend match was his unconvincing performance in 2014/15's 0-0 home draw with Burton - a yellow for Prosser and three of theirs. This match came at the beginning of that dire run of 6 hours football without a goal from either team at Roots Hall.
This was followed by 2015/16 home match against Barnsley which we won 2-1. We also won the bookings 4-2 (Bentley, White, Wordsworth and Piggott) and he gave them a penalty.
Then comes his appearance, as a late and wholly inadequate replacement, at home to Crewe in the same season. This match we drew 1-1 and we smashed them on bookings 5-1 (Coker, Bolger, Wordsworth, Barnett and Worrall). He gave us not one but two penalties. Barnett missed his but Jack Payne put his away for a stoppage time equalizer.
A more recent Southend match was the comfortable 3-0 win at MK Dons early last season when his performance did not attract any adverse criticism (other than his again rather haphazard measuring of defensive wall distances!). A caution for Coker and three of theirs.
Next were the two attempts to get the Bolton match played. His performance in the eventual game was unimpressive with Ranger and a couple of theirs cautioned.
Then last season's 3-3 draw at Gillingham, plenty of goals but even more cards with our 4 going to Demetriou, Hendrie, Timlin and Robinson. They only managed 3.
Then last December he refereed our 2-0 win over Oldham to his usual unsatisfactory standard. Demetriou, McLaughlin and one of theirs picked up yellows.
Finally, the match at home to Walsall last March when the efforts to clear the pitch of snow were rewarded with an abject performance from the team and a 3-0 defeat, all goals to Oztumer. This was not a hard game to referee and his performance was probably the best I've seen from him - damned with faint praise maybe. A card apiece; ours to Yearwood.
This season his 10 matches have produced an uncharacteristically low 27 yellow cards and a characteristically high 5 reds.
Hope, rather than expect, that his performance is as we would like it and all ends well.
Assisting are Richard Kendall from Luton and Michael Webb from Woking. Fourth Official will be Marc Wilson from Cambridge who was running the line in that Walsall match.
Saturday's man in charge will be a familiar figure. It's Charles Breakspear from Walton-on-Thames, a shaven headed clone whose game rarely rises above adequate. Will we get a tragedy or perhaps a comedy. A comedy of errors perhaps? Anyway here is the history:
He has refereed ten Southend matches previously and in the first two he sent off an opposing player. Sadly we only got a defeat and a draw (and subsequent penalty shoot-out defeat) to show for our numerical advantage. The last eight we did somewhat better picking up three wins and a three draws and a good number of bookings !
He is in his sixth season as a League referee and, for me, he is another one who falls into the "lucky to still be there" category. He has had a high card count throughout his League career and this season he was an early leader in the red card stakes with 5 from his first 5 games - but his last 5 games haven't produced a single red.
Those previous matches were, firstly, our 3-1 home defeat to Morecambe in 2013/14. Their sub got a red just 7 minutes after coming on and there was a yellow apiece (Timlin for us) and in 2014/15 he presided over the JPT match at Wimbledon where unusually all four cards (3 yellows and a red) went to the home team.
His next Southend match was his unconvincing performance in 2014/15's 0-0 home draw with Burton - a yellow for Prosser and three of theirs. This match came at the beginning of that dire run of 6 hours football without a goal from either team at Roots Hall.
This was followed by 2015/16 home match against Barnsley which we won 2-1. We also won the bookings 4-2 (Bentley, White, Wordsworth and Piggott) and he gave them a penalty.
Then comes his appearance, as a late and wholly inadequate replacement, at home to Crewe in the same season. This match we drew 1-1 and we smashed them on bookings 5-1 (Coker, Bolger, Wordsworth, Barnett and Worrall). He gave us not one but two penalties. Barnett missed his but Jack Payne put his away for a stoppage time equalizer.
A more recent Southend match was the comfortable 3-0 win at MK Dons early last season when his performance did not attract any adverse criticism (other than his again rather haphazard measuring of defensive wall distances!). A caution for Coker and three of theirs.
Next were the two attempts to get the Bolton match played. His performance in the eventual game was unimpressive with Ranger and a couple of theirs cautioned.
Then last season's 3-3 draw at Gillingham, plenty of goals but even more cards with our 4 going to Demetriou, Hendrie, Timlin and Robinson. They only managed 3.
Then last December he refereed our 2-0 win over Oldham to his usual unsatisfactory standard. Demetriou, McLaughlin and one of theirs picked up yellows.
Finally, the match at home to Walsall last March when the efforts to clear the pitch of snow were rewarded with an abject performance from the team and a 3-0 defeat, all goals to Oztumer. This was not a hard game to referee and his performance was probably the best I've seen from him - damned with faint praise maybe. A card apiece; ours to Yearwood.
This season his 10 matches have produced an uncharacteristically low 27 yellow cards and a characteristically high 5 reds.
Hope, rather than expect, that his performance is as we would like it and all ends well.
Assisting are Richard Kendall from Luton and Michael Webb from Woking. Fourth Official will be Marc Wilson from Cambridge who was running the line in that Walsall match.
