Mick
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Obviously not optimistic about tonight's game happening but the referee is due to be Dean Whitestone from Northampton, in his seventh season as a Football League referee. He is a referee we have seen a lot of at Roots Hall but not much away from home.
His most recent appearance at Roots Hall was an excellent performance in the Cup game against Brentford. Just the one yellow for Woodyard.
Before that, his last Southend match was the game at Shrewsbury last season, a match which for me, more than any other, cost us promotion. A match that was there for the taking after an early home dismissal. He also cautioned Timlin and Dickinson and their keeper in a strong refereeing performance.
He has refereed nine games at Roots Hall. He was here twice the season before last for the league win against Torquay and the Cup replay (a proper "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 (I hear tickets are still available!), 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 four 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 five 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 97 yellows and 3 reds from 31 games. Upset Ian Holloway on Saturday, but then Palace are not used to not having everything given their way at home.
Assistants are Darren Blunden from Dartford (who was also on the line for that Brentford match) and Dave Bushell from London with Lee Venamore from Maidstone as 4th Official.
His most recent appearance at Roots Hall was an excellent performance in the Cup game against Brentford. Just the one yellow for Woodyard.
Before that, his last Southend match was the game at Shrewsbury last season, a match which for me, more than any other, cost us promotion. A match that was there for the taking after an early home dismissal. He also cautioned Timlin and Dickinson and their keeper in a strong refereeing performance.
He has refereed nine games at Roots Hall. He was here twice the season before last for the league win against Torquay and the Cup replay (a proper "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 (I hear tickets are still available!), 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 four 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 five 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 97 yellows and 3 reds from 31 games. Upset Ian Holloway on Saturday, but then Palace are not used to not having everything given their way at home.
Assistants are Darren Blunden from Dartford (who was also on the line for that Brentford match) and Dave Bushell from London with Lee Venamore from Maidstone as 4th Official.
