Mick
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The man in charge of Saturday's rather daunting looking match is Eddie Ilderton from Tyne and Wear. He is in his 7th season as a League referee but really it's his 6th as he missed all of last season through injury. He has completed 20 games so far this season, so I'd guess he was fully fit now. In his mid to late thirties, he works in the building industry.
Surprisingly he has not refereed a Southend match for over 5 years when co-incidentally he officiated in our 1-0 defeat at Huddersfield in 2003/4. Unsurprisingly he cautioned Drewe.
His only other Southend match was the year before when we lost 2-0 away at York. (Good heavens, was it only 7 years ago we were playing and losing to teams like York?).
He gets a good number of Championship games and has a reputation of being one of the better Football League referees. His 20 games this season have produced an average-ish 59 yellow cards and 4 reds (3 of which were home players, 2 of which were in his last match at Blackpool).
Assisting will be Chris Akers from Armthorpe, near Doncaster and Rob Atkin from Scunthorpe. Danny Markham, also from Tyne and Wear will be on numbers board duty.
Surprisingly he has not refereed a Southend match for over 5 years when co-incidentally he officiated in our 1-0 defeat at Huddersfield in 2003/4. Unsurprisingly he cautioned Drewe.
His only other Southend match was the year before when we lost 2-0 away at York. (Good heavens, was it only 7 years ago we were playing and losing to teams like York?).
He gets a good number of Championship games and has a reputation of being one of the better Football League referees. His 20 games this season have produced an average-ish 59 yellow cards and 4 reds (3 of which were home players, 2 of which were in his last match at Blackpool).
Assisting will be Chris Akers from Armthorpe, near Doncaster and Rob Atkin from Scunthorpe. Danny Markham, also from Tyne and Wear will be on numbers board duty.
