Mick
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Tranmere have definitely had the better of the matches between the two clubs that have taken place on a fairly regular basis since the abolition of Div 3 North and South. We haven't had a 0-0 with them at Roots Hall for 20 years though.
Saturday's referee is Graham Horwood from Luton, in his 6th year as a League referee and refereeing his 9th Southend game. It will be his third Southend match of the season and it's fair to say the other two did not go well for us!
His six years of League service are either side of a two year gap when he was demoted for performance reasons.
His visit to Roots Hall earlier this season was to preside over the start and end of our Cup run. That Chester match saw a hefty number of yellows, 4 a piece. Ours went to Binnom-Williams, Sokolik, White and Timlin.
Shortly after that he was in charge of our match at Wycombe, where we were very much second best. The sending off of Binnom-Williams was probably correct. Yellows went to O'Toole and Deegan and a couple of theirs.
His only other Southend match since his re-instatement was the pre-Christmas, Friday night game last year against Rochdale which finished 1-1. It was 1-1 on yellow cards too - Leonard got ours and ex-blue Lund, theirs. He did okay.
During his period of de-selection he appeared in Southend matches on a couple of occasions as an Assistant. Before that, 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 very decent 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 one. Le Fondre scored for them; Bailey and Harrold for us.
Since those he refereed the 1-0 defeat at Aldershot 2010/11 when we shaded the yellows 3-2.
Average cards (76 yellows and 4 reds from 24 games) but he hasn't had a Championship match since September and the vast majority of his last dozen matches have been League Two. Based on his appointments I would imagine he's going to be somewhat nervous when the referees' retained list comes out at the end of the season!
Assisting will be two Kentish men, Ian Cooper from Rochester and Ian Fissenden from Gravesend with Geoff Russell from Rushden doing the 4th official stuff.
Saturday's referee is Graham Horwood from Luton, in his 6th year as a League referee and refereeing his 9th Southend game. It will be his third Southend match of the season and it's fair to say the other two did not go well for us!
His six years of League service are either side of a two year gap when he was demoted for performance reasons.
His visit to Roots Hall earlier this season was to preside over the start and end of our Cup run. That Chester match saw a hefty number of yellows, 4 a piece. Ours went to Binnom-Williams, Sokolik, White and Timlin.
Shortly after that he was in charge of our match at Wycombe, where we were very much second best. The sending off of Binnom-Williams was probably correct. Yellows went to O'Toole and Deegan and a couple of theirs.
His only other Southend match since his re-instatement was the pre-Christmas, Friday night game last year against Rochdale which finished 1-1. It was 1-1 on yellow cards too - Leonard got ours and ex-blue Lund, theirs. He did okay.
During his period of de-selection he appeared in Southend matches on a couple of occasions as an Assistant. Before that, 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 very decent 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 one. Le Fondre scored for them; Bailey and Harrold for us.
Since those he refereed the 1-0 defeat at Aldershot 2010/11 when we shaded the yellows 3-2.
Average cards (76 yellows and 4 reds from 24 games) but he hasn't had a Championship match since September and the vast majority of his last dozen matches have been League Two. Based on his appointments I would imagine he's going to be somewhat nervous when the referees' retained list comes out at the end of the season!
Assisting will be two Kentish men, Ian Cooper from Rochester and Ian Fissenden from Gravesend with Geoff Russell from Rushden doing the 4th official stuff.
