Mick
Life President
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2003
- Messages
- 10,679
For our visit to Portsmouth where we have only ever won once (last year!), the man in charge tomorrow is Lee Collins from Surrey. He was fast tracked through the system and rose to the level of League referee remarkably quickly, this being his fourth season.
He started his career off with 6 red cards in his first 11 matches, then calmed down a lot.
He has now settled at an average card rate and his last Southend match was Wimbledon at home this season - one of many disappointing home matches - when we lost 1-0. Four yellows: Bolger for us and three for them.
Before that it was the 0-0 home draw with Bury last March when he sent off Barry Corr and cautioned Egan and Leonard (and two of theirs).
Previously it was our wretched performance at Newport last season where he was comfortably more competent than the players. Atkinson's yellow was the only card of the match.
His previous home match was the League Cup defeat by Yeovil. A yellow for Prosser and four of theirs.
And before that, he killed the game for Dagenham with a unjustifiable red card after 8 minutes (which was subsequently rescinded). A further yellow for Phillips and a comfortable 3-1 win thanks to two goals from Britt.
He has refereed Southend on two other previous occasions. More recently, Oxford away at the end of the 2011/12 season (one caution for us, two for them) and before that at, co-incidentally, Dagenham in the 3-2 League win when he cautioned Mohsni and again two of theirs. He didn't attract much comment, adverse or otherwise.
His 17 matches this season have seen 57 yellows and 2 reds with 10 of the yellows coming in one match - his last visit to Fratton Park !!
All four of the team hail from Surrey. Assistants will be Nigel Lugg from Chipstead and Dan Robathan from Dorking. Charles Breakspear, a fully fledged but unconvincing League referee, is 4th Official. He is from Walton-on-Thames and recently refereed the home match against Burton.
He started his career off with 6 red cards in his first 11 matches, then calmed down a lot.
He has now settled at an average card rate and his last Southend match was Wimbledon at home this season - one of many disappointing home matches - when we lost 1-0. Four yellows: Bolger for us and three for them.
Before that it was the 0-0 home draw with Bury last March when he sent off Barry Corr and cautioned Egan and Leonard (and two of theirs).
Previously it was our wretched performance at Newport last season where he was comfortably more competent than the players. Atkinson's yellow was the only card of the match.
His previous home match was the League Cup defeat by Yeovil. A yellow for Prosser and four of theirs.
And before that, he killed the game for Dagenham with a unjustifiable red card after 8 minutes (which was subsequently rescinded). A further yellow for Phillips and a comfortable 3-1 win thanks to two goals from Britt.
He has refereed Southend on two other previous occasions. More recently, Oxford away at the end of the 2011/12 season (one caution for us, two for them) and before that at, co-incidentally, Dagenham in the 3-2 League win when he cautioned Mohsni and again two of theirs. He didn't attract much comment, adverse or otherwise.
His 17 matches this season have seen 57 yellows and 2 reds with 10 of the yellows coming in one match - his last visit to Fratton Park !!
All four of the team hail from Surrey. Assistants will be Nigel Lugg from Chipstead and Dan Robathan from Dorking. Charles Breakspear, a fully fledged but unconvincing League referee, is 4th Official. He is from Walton-on-Thames and recently refereed the home match against Burton.
