Mick
The Ref Aficionado.
Matches against Halifax commenced in 1958/59 with the abolition of Third Divisions North and South. Since then, we have met 53 times, all league matches, with us having won just over half of them, 27 games, with Halifax having won 13, the other 13 finishing level. I know it’s not the same corporate entity, like Brentwood, having been wound up and re-formed, but they’re called Halifax and play at the Shay so that’s good enough for me. The teams last met a couple of months ago with a 2-0 away win at the Shay with goals from Pepple and Crowther.
For the second attempt to play this match, the referee is Richard Eley from Derby, who last year received a mid-season promotion. His very first match was in front of a crowd of 11,881 at Oldham against Kidderminster when they had £1 admission fee to celebrate the safe return of their Chairman Frank Rothwell after becoming the oldest person to row the Atlantic, age 73, and all in aid of charity.
Another of his matches last season was our dire 0-0 home draw with Woking last March. We were slow, uninventive with a blunt forward line ….. sound familiar ?? Cautions for Kensdale and Crowther and their keeper. There was little, if any, criticism of him.
Prior to his promotion he was doing National League North/South matches and some PL2 development games and also a bit of Football League Fourth Official stuff. He actually got to referee the second half of the Stockport v Crewe game when the original referee got injured.
This season his 12 matches have produced 55 yellow cards, although he has neither a red card nor a nil-nil draw to his name as yet. A couple of weeks ago he was given his first full Football League match at Doncaster which appears to have gone okay.
When he is not refereeing he is a qualified evidence-based Nutrition Practitioner. He is also a fitness coach and certified personal trainer.
Assisting are Chris Myatt from Dartford, for the tenth time at Roots Hall, and Mark Chalkley from Downham Market with a Roots Hall debut, although he ran one of the lines at Braintree at the start of the year.
Fourth Official, for the eighth time at Roots Hall is Jack Willmore from Clacton-on-Sea, the most recent of those many appearances being Charlton in the Cup.
For the second attempt to play this match, the referee is Richard Eley from Derby, who last year received a mid-season promotion. His very first match was in front of a crowd of 11,881 at Oldham against Kidderminster when they had £1 admission fee to celebrate the safe return of their Chairman Frank Rothwell after becoming the oldest person to row the Atlantic, age 73, and all in aid of charity.
Another of his matches last season was our dire 0-0 home draw with Woking last March. We were slow, uninventive with a blunt forward line ….. sound familiar ?? Cautions for Kensdale and Crowther and their keeper. There was little, if any, criticism of him.
Prior to his promotion he was doing National League North/South matches and some PL2 development games and also a bit of Football League Fourth Official stuff. He actually got to referee the second half of the Stockport v Crewe game when the original referee got injured.
This season his 12 matches have produced 55 yellow cards, although he has neither a red card nor a nil-nil draw to his name as yet. A couple of weeks ago he was given his first full Football League match at Doncaster which appears to have gone okay.
When he is not refereeing he is a qualified evidence-based Nutrition Practitioner. He is also a fitness coach and certified personal trainer.
Assisting are Chris Myatt from Dartford, for the tenth time at Roots Hall, and Mark Chalkley from Downham Market with a Roots Hall debut, although he ran one of the lines at Braintree at the start of the year.
Fourth Official, for the eighth time at Roots Hall is Jack Willmore from Clacton-on-Sea, the most recent of those many appearances being Charlton in the Cup.
