Mick
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Man in charge at Roots Hall on Saturday is Iain Williamson from Berkshire who is in his 11th season as a League referee. Played non-league for Walton & Hersham until injury forced him into refereeing.
We have seen quite a lot of him, this being his fifteenth Southend match in charge. Twelve of the previous fourteen have been home games, the odd ones out being the dreadful performance at Burton 2010/11 (ours not his - although he wasn't great cautioning 4 of ours and 1 of theirs) and our early season defeat at QPR some while ago.
His last visit as referee was our 1,500th match at Roots Hall, a comfortable Cup win over Stockport in 2012/13. Yellow for Prosser and 3 of theirs. That was his second visit of that season having presided over our comeback against Exeter with two scoring substitutes (Eastwood and Corr) giving us a victory right at the death. Just the one caution for one of theirs.
Before that the most recent home match was deep into 2011/12 against Rotherham when we lost 2-0. Both bookings were theirs.
Other home games include a Drewe dismissal against Oxford, the Freddy Eastwood frivolous appeal match against Southampton in the League Cup, the 1-0 home defeat against Derby and slightly more recently the Cup replay against Telford. His fourteen matches have produced just 26 goals and a multitude of bookings and needless interruptions although happily with all hope of promotion gone he has been far less fussy and unpredictable for a few seasons now
However, for us his most memorable appearance at Roots Hall was when, as 4th official, he held up the numbers board at our historic victory over Manchester United.
He repeated the same trick more recently as 4th Official for our Wembley-clinching semi-final against Orient
For the second match running at Roots Hall we have a referee who started the season late through injury and he has shown a decidedly average 48 yellows and one red from 16 matches. He is a referee I would always much rather see on home games than away ones.
The two assistants will be brummie Nick Hobbis and Wayne Porter from Bourne in Lincs. Ashvin Degnarain returns to the area for the second week running to do the 4th Official stuff. Last Saturday he refereed at Concord.
We have seen quite a lot of him, this being his fifteenth Southend match in charge. Twelve of the previous fourteen have been home games, the odd ones out being the dreadful performance at Burton 2010/11 (ours not his - although he wasn't great cautioning 4 of ours and 1 of theirs) and our early season defeat at QPR some while ago.
His last visit as referee was our 1,500th match at Roots Hall, a comfortable Cup win over Stockport in 2012/13. Yellow for Prosser and 3 of theirs. That was his second visit of that season having presided over our comeback against Exeter with two scoring substitutes (Eastwood and Corr) giving us a victory right at the death. Just the one caution for one of theirs.
Before that the most recent home match was deep into 2011/12 against Rotherham when we lost 2-0. Both bookings were theirs.
Other home games include a Drewe dismissal against Oxford, the Freddy Eastwood frivolous appeal match against Southampton in the League Cup, the 1-0 home defeat against Derby and slightly more recently the Cup replay against Telford. His fourteen matches have produced just 26 goals and a multitude of bookings and needless interruptions although happily with all hope of promotion gone he has been far less fussy and unpredictable for a few seasons now
However, for us his most memorable appearance at Roots Hall was when, as 4th official, he held up the numbers board at our historic victory over Manchester United.
He repeated the same trick more recently as 4th Official for our Wembley-clinching semi-final against Orient
For the second match running at Roots Hall we have a referee who started the season late through injury and he has shown a decidedly average 48 yellows and one red from 16 matches. He is a referee I would always much rather see on home games than away ones.
The two assistants will be brummie Nick Hobbis and Wayne Porter from Bourne in Lincs. Ashvin Degnarain returns to the area for the second week running to do the 4th Official stuff. Last Saturday he refereed at Concord.
