Mick
Life President
Our first ever game against Blackpool was a 1-0 win 95 years ago. Our most recent game against Blackpool was a 1-0 win, back in November this season. In between times honours are very much even.
We have an experienced referee for tomorrow's visit to Blackpool. In charge is Mark Haywood from Wakefield, West Yorkshire (not to be confused with the other League referee Mark Heywood from Northwich). This is his tenth season as a League referee and we have seen very little of him in that time.
In fact he has refereed us just five times before.
The most recent was this year's 2-0 away win at Millwall when he gave a very decent performance (yes, we might have had a penalty) booking Timlin and Deegan.
Before that was the end of season home match the season before last when we were jostling for play off positions with Burton. He was no better than average in a cardless match we shaded 1-0 thanks to a Corr goal.
Then the Shrimps v Shrimpers disgraceful performance (on many levels) in 2011/12 season (just one yellow apiece, Barker for us) when Mohsni left it early.
Prior to that when Mohsni left it late with two goals in the 88th and 90th minutes at Crewe (1-3) also in 2011/12 when he showed an uncharacteristically high 6 yellows (4 to us Clohessey, Ferdinanf, Kalala and Dickinson) and finally in the 2-1 defeat at Northampton 2010/11 with the game's only yellow card going to Mohsni.
He rose through the ranks quite quickly and his card count has always been very comfortably the right side of average and he is getting plenty of Championship matches. This season, his 29 matches have produced 73 yellows and 6 reds. Viewed as a "safe pair of hands" although has attracted a bit of criticism of late for one or two odd decisions.
Assistants are Mark Russell making a long journey from Portishead near Bristol and Joe Simpson, JD Sports Football Marketing Co-Ordinator from Manchester. The 4th official is scouser Robert Jones.
We have an experienced referee for tomorrow's visit to Blackpool. In charge is Mark Haywood from Wakefield, West Yorkshire (not to be confused with the other League referee Mark Heywood from Northwich). This is his tenth season as a League referee and we have seen very little of him in that time.
In fact he has refereed us just five times before.
The most recent was this year's 2-0 away win at Millwall when he gave a very decent performance (yes, we might have had a penalty) booking Timlin and Deegan.
Before that was the end of season home match the season before last when we were jostling for play off positions with Burton. He was no better than average in a cardless match we shaded 1-0 thanks to a Corr goal.
Then the Shrimps v Shrimpers disgraceful performance (on many levels) in 2011/12 season (just one yellow apiece, Barker for us) when Mohsni left it early.
Prior to that when Mohsni left it late with two goals in the 88th and 90th minutes at Crewe (1-3) also in 2011/12 when he showed an uncharacteristically high 6 yellows (4 to us Clohessey, Ferdinanf, Kalala and Dickinson) and finally in the 2-1 defeat at Northampton 2010/11 with the game's only yellow card going to Mohsni.
He rose through the ranks quite quickly and his card count has always been very comfortably the right side of average and he is getting plenty of Championship matches. This season, his 29 matches have produced 73 yellows and 6 reds. Viewed as a "safe pair of hands" although has attracted a bit of criticism of late for one or two odd decisions.
Assistants are Mark Russell making a long journey from Portishead near Bristol and Joe Simpson, JD Sports Football Marketing Co-Ordinator from Manchester. The 4th official is scouser Robert Jones.
