Mick
Life President
The referee for tomorrow's Checkatrade match will be John Busby, from South Oxfordshire, refereeing his third Southend match in this, his second season as a League referee.
He has been fast-tracked through the system (not always a good sign) spending just one season at Conference level before being promoted at the beginning of last season.
His first previous Southend match went well with early goals from Ranger and Leonard giving us a 2-0 victory at Coventry back in March this year. The only card was a yellow shown to one of theirs.
His second Southend match, earlier this season, also had only one card - this time a red for McGlashan at Wigan in our 3-0 defeat.
So far this season he has refereed 22 matches producing a below average 57 yellow cards and 3 red cards. He has yet to have a cardless Football League match.
He visited Roots Hall last season as Fourth Official in the Scunthorpe match and was an Assistant Referee the year before, again at home to Scunthorpe.
His assistants will be will be Tranmere Rovers supporter and ex-semipro player for Newtown (in the Welsh League), Anthony Da Costa, now from Cambridge and Christopher Ward from Blyth in Nottinghamshire. Fourth Official will be a very good non-league referee, Alan Young from Ely who works as Referee Development Manager for the Cambridgeshire FA.
He has been fast-tracked through the system (not always a good sign) spending just one season at Conference level before being promoted at the beginning of last season.
His first previous Southend match went well with early goals from Ranger and Leonard giving us a 2-0 victory at Coventry back in March this year. The only card was a yellow shown to one of theirs.
His second Southend match, earlier this season, also had only one card - this time a red for McGlashan at Wigan in our 3-0 defeat.
So far this season he has refereed 22 matches producing a below average 57 yellow cards and 3 red cards. He has yet to have a cardless Football League match.
He visited Roots Hall last season as Fourth Official in the Scunthorpe match and was an Assistant Referee the year before, again at home to Scunthorpe.
His assistants will be will be Tranmere Rovers supporter and ex-semipro player for Newtown (in the Welsh League), Anthony Da Costa, now from Cambridge and Christopher Ward from Blyth in Nottinghamshire. Fourth Official will be a very good non-league referee, Alan Young from Ely who works as Referee Development Manager for the Cambridgeshire FA.
