Mick
Life President
We have played Boston six times before, all in the League, and things couldn’t be much more evenly balanced. We’ve won three, they’ve won three. We’ve scored 8 goals, they’ve scored 8 goals. We’ve had one red card, they’ve had one red card. Our red card went to Darryl Flahavan and resulted in a successful 45 minutes in goal from Tes the Cat. Kevin Maher played in all six games.
Man in charge tomorrow is Alan Dale from Ipswich, now in his eighth season as a National League referee.
In his early thirties, he previously worked for Suffolk FA for six years, initially as Referee Development Officer, before progressing to Senior Referee Development Officer and then Workforce Development Manager. He left at the end of March to join the England & Wales Cricket Board as Regional Officiating Development Officer and was appointed to the Suffolk FA Board as a Non-Executive Director. Prior to all that he worked for Suffolk County Council and before that Ipswich Town Community Trust in various sport related roles.
He took charge of 2021/22 home match against Wrexham and did rather well with just two yellows to them and co-incidentally was appointed to the same fixture the following season. Unfortunately, there was a late change and a somewhat poorer referee did that one.
He then took charge of our impressive 3-0 win at Barnet back in November 2022. Just the one yellow card to Miley in that one, so all good again. Next, he took charge of the Trophy match against York in the same season. Both yellow cards (and both goals) to them.
Finally, and quite recently, he was at Roots Hall back in March for the 4-2 win over Boreham Wood – a result that helped to send the visitors down ! Two of the three yellows shown went to us (Miley and Scott-Morriss) and another decent performance from him.
This is his first National League match of the season having been performing a couple of Fourth Official roles at Football League matches.
Assisting will be Ryan Whitaker from Bexleyheath, his first visit since the behind closed doors era, and, making his Southend debut, Dave Pilling from Reading, an NHS worker on the admin side. Ryan Head from just outside Norwich does the Fourth Official stuff.
Man in charge tomorrow is Alan Dale from Ipswich, now in his eighth season as a National League referee.
In his early thirties, he previously worked for Suffolk FA for six years, initially as Referee Development Officer, before progressing to Senior Referee Development Officer and then Workforce Development Manager. He left at the end of March to join the England & Wales Cricket Board as Regional Officiating Development Officer and was appointed to the Suffolk FA Board as a Non-Executive Director. Prior to all that he worked for Suffolk County Council and before that Ipswich Town Community Trust in various sport related roles.
He took charge of 2021/22 home match against Wrexham and did rather well with just two yellows to them and co-incidentally was appointed to the same fixture the following season. Unfortunately, there was a late change and a somewhat poorer referee did that one.
He then took charge of our impressive 3-0 win at Barnet back in November 2022. Just the one yellow card to Miley in that one, so all good again. Next, he took charge of the Trophy match against York in the same season. Both yellow cards (and both goals) to them.
Finally, and quite recently, he was at Roots Hall back in March for the 4-2 win over Boreham Wood – a result that helped to send the visitors down ! Two of the three yellows shown went to us (Miley and Scott-Morriss) and another decent performance from him.
This is his first National League match of the season having been performing a couple of Fourth Official roles at Football League matches.
Assisting will be Ryan Whitaker from Bexleyheath, his first visit since the behind closed doors era, and, making his Southend debut, Dave Pilling from Reading, an NHS worker on the admin side. Ryan Head from just outside Norwich does the Fourth Official stuff.
to prevent jumping or any movement really
