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Mick

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Man in charge tomorrow is Darren England from Broomhill near Wombwell (birthplace of Ernie Shepherd) near Barnsley. This is his second year as a League referee.

Aged in his very early thirties, he is the National Project Coordinator for the Football League Trust (FLT) on the government funded National Citizen Service and since attaining his degree in Sport and Recreational Development he has been lucky enough to have worked in sport throughout his working life. Other employers include Barnsley FC in their Community Trust.

He has given up an extremely successful Assistant Referee career to concentrate on being the man in the middle possibly influenced by the changes bringing full-time referees to the Football League (predominantly Championship) as well as the Premiership. He signed off from lining with the 2014/15 Cup Final followed by the Norway v Sweden international. He also refereed the Conference Play-off match between Bristol Rovers and Forest Green that same season.

He refereed the Southend away match at Wigan last season which I didn't see but I suspect it wasn't his fault we were outclassed. That game saw yellows for Worrall and Deegan.

His matches this season have been high on reds but low on yellows - 9 matches, 19 yellows, 4 reds.

He has also refereed Rochdale just once before against Port Vale last season, a 2-1 home win with a visitor dismissed.

Assisting will be Darren Strain from Runcorn, who performed the same role in the same match last season and Paul Thopmson from Chesterfield.

Fourth Official duties will be performed by Tom Nield formerly from Cromer but more recently from the West Riding of Yorkshire.
 
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