Mick
Life President
We have played Maidenhead 6 times with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat and have actually won the last four in a row, scoring two goals each time. Those eight goals were from seven different scorers with the odd one out, unsurprisingly, being Gus Scott-Morriss with two.
Saturday’s referee is on the Elite Referee Development Pathway and is being fast-tracked at a rate of knots through the system. He is Ruebyn Ricardo from Leicester, who works for the Leicester and Rutland FA in their referee support team. Aged just 25, he was a mid-season promotion to National League North & South a couple of years back and shortly after that became a regular choice for National League games. Now he is mostly in charge of Football League matches.
He has refereed Southend thrice before. Firstly, at Woking for the season before last’s FA Cup exit. He did okay and considerably better than the referee who did the match between the same two teams at Roots Hall a week and a half earlier. A yellow card apiece, ours to Powell.
Later the same season he took charge of the home match against Gateshead. Another good performance from him with Sandat’s early goal clinching all the points. Yellow for Hobson and one yellow and a red for them.
His third match at Roots Hall was last season’s home match against Hartlepool. Less impressive this time, unfortunately. A 3-2 defeat with no cards when perhaps there should have been - to both teams.
This season he has taken charge of 9 matches, the most recent of which was Leyton Orient’s home defeat by Exeter 3 days ago. There have been 50 yellow cards and 2 reds in those matches – well above average. Only two of those games were in the National League.
Assistants will be Stephen Brown from Ashford, Kent and Adrian Tranter from Poole. The latter is, I believe, the oldest official at this level. Fourth Official will be Daniel Robinson from Birmingham.
Saturday’s referee is on the Elite Referee Development Pathway and is being fast-tracked at a rate of knots through the system. He is Ruebyn Ricardo from Leicester, who works for the Leicester and Rutland FA in their referee support team. Aged just 25, he was a mid-season promotion to National League North & South a couple of years back and shortly after that became a regular choice for National League games. Now he is mostly in charge of Football League matches.
He has refereed Southend thrice before. Firstly, at Woking for the season before last’s FA Cup exit. He did okay and considerably better than the referee who did the match between the same two teams at Roots Hall a week and a half earlier. A yellow card apiece, ours to Powell.
Later the same season he took charge of the home match against Gateshead. Another good performance from him with Sandat’s early goal clinching all the points. Yellow for Hobson and one yellow and a red for them.
His third match at Roots Hall was last season’s home match against Hartlepool. Less impressive this time, unfortunately. A 3-2 defeat with no cards when perhaps there should have been - to both teams.
This season he has taken charge of 9 matches, the most recent of which was Leyton Orient’s home defeat by Exeter 3 days ago. There have been 50 yellow cards and 2 reds in those matches – well above average. Only two of those games were in the National League.
Assistants will be Stephen Brown from Ashford, Kent and Adrian Tranter from Poole. The latter is, I believe, the oldest official at this level. Fourth Official will be Daniel Robinson from Birmingham.
