Mick
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Tomorrow's referee is Graham Horwood from Luton, in his 5th year as a League referee and refereeing his 5th Southend home game.
These five years are either side of a two year gap when he was demoted for performance reasons. As a result his last couple of visits to the Hall have been as an assistant referee.
His previous four visits to Roots Hall as a referee weren't too bad. The most recent was the final home game of 2008/9 against Cheltenham. The other three were Hereford in the same season and Rochdale in the cup and Bournemouth in the League the year before that. So we have a 100% home record with this official. The only match of these with a significant number of cards was the Rochdale Cup game where they had 4 yellows to our 1. Le Fondre scored for them; Bailey and Harrold for us.
Since then he refereed the 1-0 defeat at Aldershot 2010/11 when we shaded the yellows 3-2.
Above average cards (45 yellows and one red from a dozen games) and he has a reputation of being a somewhat fussy referee but as I've said before, he can't be that fussy if he lives in Luton. The first player he sent off as a League referee was a Rochdale player; no prizes for guessing it was Perkins.
Assisting will be Ryan Atkin and Ian Crouch both from London while Carl Fitch, a school teacher from Ipswich makes his umpteenth trip down the A12 to be 4th official.
These five years are either side of a two year gap when he was demoted for performance reasons. As a result his last couple of visits to the Hall have been as an assistant referee.
His previous four visits to Roots Hall as a referee weren't too bad. The most recent was the final home game of 2008/9 against Cheltenham. The other three were Hereford in the same season and Rochdale in the cup and Bournemouth in the League the year before that. So we have a 100% home record with this official. The only match of these with a significant number of cards was the Rochdale Cup game where they had 4 yellows to our 1. Le Fondre scored for them; Bailey and Harrold for us.
Since then he refereed the 1-0 defeat at Aldershot 2010/11 when we shaded the yellows 3-2.
Above average cards (45 yellows and one red from a dozen games) and he has a reputation of being a somewhat fussy referee but as I've said before, he can't be that fussy if he lives in Luton. The first player he sent off as a League referee was a Rochdale player; no prizes for guessing it was Perkins.
Assisting will be Ryan Atkin and Ian Crouch both from London while Carl Fitch, a school teacher from Ipswich makes his umpteenth trip down the A12 to be 4th official.