Mick
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Our last three home League matches against AFC Wimbledon have all been defeats, whereas our last three away League games have all been wins (by the comfortable aggregate of 9-1). The referee in charge of the most recent of those wins returns on Tuesday.
Tomorrow's referee is Graham Scott from Abingdon in Oxfordshire. He is in his 7th season as a Football League referee and this will be his 9th Southend match. (It would be his tenth, but the 'second' didn't happen due to the appropriately Antarctic weather at the time.)
The first match was the home JPT defeat by Orient in 2008/9. He then did an away match at Gillingham - the Easter defeat in 2009/10 and then, more recently, the 2011/12 home game against Morecambe (a red card for Jevons and 2 yellows for them). Next he oversaw our abject performance in the home debacle against Bradford City. Then we had our first win with him when we, and he, breezed through the 3-0 home win over Barnet in the same season. That was the match of course when Mohsni scored a hat-trick in about 20 minutes !!
A later Southend match was Mohsni's comeback game - the 2-1 home defeat to Northampton which went less well for Mohsni who was red-carded and three of theirs (including Gutteridge) saw yellow.
Then, Boxing Day last season at Wimbledon when a Woodrow goal gave us a 1-0 win with 2 yellows and a red for them and cautions for Atkinson, Straker and Eastwood.
Finally, a decent performance in this season's home 2-0 win over Portsmouth with yellows for Deegan and Payne and 4 of theirs.
Certainly when I've seen him he has, on occasions, seemed a little over eager to reach for his cards, but his decisions are more right than wrong. He is an official I would generally prefer to see doing our home matches. He is quite highly rated and gets loads of Championship appointments and would appear a good possibility to join the largely discredited group of Premiership referees. He will have done his chances no harm at all on Saturday when he replaced the injured Phil Dowd at half time at the Hawthorns and gave a competent display for the second half.
His card count is only slightly above average with 107 yellows and 3 reds from a high 33 matches.
Assisting Mr Scott will be Paul Kelly from Gillingham and normally good official Alan Young from Cambridge who upset Chelmsford in a big way at the weekend. Nigel Lugg from Chipstead is Fourth Official.
Tomorrow's referee is Graham Scott from Abingdon in Oxfordshire. He is in his 7th season as a Football League referee and this will be his 9th Southend match. (It would be his tenth, but the 'second' didn't happen due to the appropriately Antarctic weather at the time.)
The first match was the home JPT defeat by Orient in 2008/9. He then did an away match at Gillingham - the Easter defeat in 2009/10 and then, more recently, the 2011/12 home game against Morecambe (a red card for Jevons and 2 yellows for them). Next he oversaw our abject performance in the home debacle against Bradford City. Then we had our first win with him when we, and he, breezed through the 3-0 home win over Barnet in the same season. That was the match of course when Mohsni scored a hat-trick in about 20 minutes !!
A later Southend match was Mohsni's comeback game - the 2-1 home defeat to Northampton which went less well for Mohsni who was red-carded and three of theirs (including Gutteridge) saw yellow.
Then, Boxing Day last season at Wimbledon when a Woodrow goal gave us a 1-0 win with 2 yellows and a red for them and cautions for Atkinson, Straker and Eastwood.
Finally, a decent performance in this season's home 2-0 win over Portsmouth with yellows for Deegan and Payne and 4 of theirs.
Certainly when I've seen him he has, on occasions, seemed a little over eager to reach for his cards, but his decisions are more right than wrong. He is an official I would generally prefer to see doing our home matches. He is quite highly rated and gets loads of Championship appointments and would appear a good possibility to join the largely discredited group of Premiership referees. He will have done his chances no harm at all on Saturday when he replaced the injured Phil Dowd at half time at the Hawthorns and gave a competent display for the second half.
His card count is only slightly above average with 107 yellows and 3 reds from a high 33 matches.
Assisting Mr Scott will be Paul Kelly from Gillingham and normally good official Alan Young from Cambridge who upset Chelmsford in a big way at the weekend. Nigel Lugg from Chipstead is Fourth Official.