Mick
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Saturday's referee is Dean Whitestone from Northampton, in his sixth season as a Football League referee. He is a referee we have seen a lot of at Roots Hall but rarely away from home.
He has refereed eight games at Roots Hall. He was here twice last season for the league win against Torquay and the Cup replay with Macclesfield (just 2 and 3 cautions respectively). The season before that saw two visits also. Firstly, the Friday night 0-0 draw with Millwall, when he did pretty well in the face of some uncompromising football from the visitors; he cautioned 5 of theirs and a couple of ours. He also did the home 1-1 draw with Wycombe, cautioning 3 of theirs and one of ours.
Prior to that, his most recent visits were three seasons ago for the opening game win over Peterborough (when three visitors were cautioned) and later that season against Tranmere when we won 2-1 (again three visitors were cautioned). Before that was the 1-0 defeat against Carlisle four seasons ago in which his performance was probably better than the 8 cautions might imply. His other visit was in the previous season when he officiated in the Leicester home draw in which he sent off Richie Foran. Previously to these, he was in charge of the away draw at Coventry which I believe he refereed reasonably well.
He is an up and coming referee who had a spell in the the "talent group" and gets plenty of Championship appointments. His card count is decidedly average with 67 yellows and 3 reds from 22 games.
Assistants are Daniel Meeson from Staffordshire and Tony Horton from Wolverhampton with highly rated League referee Andy Madley from West Yorkshire as 4th Official.
Mr Whitestone will be assessed by one of the worst officials to grace the game, Trevor Parkes from West Midlands.
He has refereed eight games at Roots Hall. He was here twice last season for the league win against Torquay and the Cup replay with Macclesfield (just 2 and 3 cautions respectively). The season before that saw two visits also. Firstly, the Friday night 0-0 draw with Millwall, when he did pretty well in the face of some uncompromising football from the visitors; he cautioned 5 of theirs and a couple of ours. He also did the home 1-1 draw with Wycombe, cautioning 3 of theirs and one of ours.
Prior to that, his most recent visits were three seasons ago for the opening game win over Peterborough (when three visitors were cautioned) and later that season against Tranmere when we won 2-1 (again three visitors were cautioned). Before that was the 1-0 defeat against Carlisle four seasons ago in which his performance was probably better than the 8 cautions might imply. His other visit was in the previous season when he officiated in the Leicester home draw in which he sent off Richie Foran. Previously to these, he was in charge of the away draw at Coventry which I believe he refereed reasonably well.
He is an up and coming referee who had a spell in the the "talent group" and gets plenty of Championship appointments. His card count is decidedly average with 67 yellows and 3 reds from 22 games.
Assistants are Daniel Meeson from Staffordshire and Tony Horton from Wolverhampton with highly rated League referee Andy Madley from West Yorkshire as 4th Official.
Mr Whitestone will be assessed by one of the worst officials to grace the game, Trevor Parkes from West Midlands.
