Richard Clark is the man in the middle for Dale’s FA Cup first round replay against Northampton on Tuesday.

The Northumberland official is in his third season on the league list and Dale will always provide him with good memories as his debut match at this level was our 1-1 draw at Chesterfield in August 2012.

We then saw him again later in the campaign when he refereed the exciting 2-2 home draw with promotion-bound Port Vale.

Our last meeting with Mr Clark was 11 months ago when he officiated at Dale’s 2-1 home loss to Fleetwood.

So far this season, Richard has refereed 10 matches, showing 35 yellow cards and three red.

His most recent fixture was Barnsley v Colchester on Friday night, while before that he was last in action on 25th October at Ipswich v Huddersfield in the Championship.

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