Mick
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Tomorrow's referee will be Craig Pawson from Sheffield in his fifth season as a League referee. As part of the Development Group of young officials who they hope have a decent future in the game, he has had a load of Championship matches over the last couple of seasons and recently had a trial Premiership match at Swansea, which seemed to go well.
This will be his fifth Southend match, the most recent being the 2-1 defeat at Stockport a couple of years ago (cautions for Hall and Asante). Before that it was the 2-1 home win over Bristol Rovers in 2009/10 when he shared half a dozen yellows equally.
Previously he has refereed Southend twice before in away games, both in 2008/9. Firstly in the 2-2 draw at Tranmere when he sent off Laurent and one of theirs and cautioned 5 too.
The other match he officiated was the "dead" game at the end of that season at Oldham, which I understand was a slightly messy performance with at least one strange caution.
He had an excellent season for his last year in the Conference and was rewarded with the 2007/8 Conference play-off final at Wembley in front of 40,000 plus fans.
His card count is comfortably the right side of average with 81 yellows and 3 reds from 30 games. I would expect a decent performance from this referee.
Assisting will be Tony Peart from Northallerton (North Yorks) and Bob Roberts from Leyland, Lancashire with Ryan Johnson from nearby Manchester as 4th Official.
This will be his fifth Southend match, the most recent being the 2-1 defeat at Stockport a couple of years ago (cautions for Hall and Asante). Before that it was the 2-1 home win over Bristol Rovers in 2009/10 when he shared half a dozen yellows equally.
Previously he has refereed Southend twice before in away games, both in 2008/9. Firstly in the 2-2 draw at Tranmere when he sent off Laurent and one of theirs and cautioned 5 too.
The other match he officiated was the "dead" game at the end of that season at Oldham, which I understand was a slightly messy performance with at least one strange caution.
He had an excellent season for his last year in the Conference and was rewarded with the 2007/8 Conference play-off final at Wembley in front of 40,000 plus fans.
His card count is comfortably the right side of average with 81 yellows and 3 reds from 30 games. I would expect a decent performance from this referee.
Assisting will be Tony Peart from Northallerton (North Yorks) and Bob Roberts from Leyland, Lancashire with Ryan Johnson from nearby Manchester as 4th Official.