Hull referee Carl Boyeson will be the man in the middle for Dale’s trip to Burton on Saturday.

Having joined the league list in 2002, Saturday will be Carl’s 19th game involving Dale, with one of the most incident-packed coming at Notts County in January 2005.

The match finished 0-0 and was a fairly timid affair, but Mr Boyeson sent off Dale’s Gareth Griffiths and Ernie Cooksey as we finished the afternoon with only nine men.

Cooksey’s red card was later rescinded, meaning he was free to take part in the FA Cup tie at Charlton five days later.

It’s been just over a year since we saw Carl as he was the referee for last season’s first away fixture at Chesterfield.

That was another eventful afternoon, as Josh Lillis had to leave the field on a stretcher, Johny Diba took over and was lucky not to receive a red card and both teams scored penalties in The Spireites’ 2-1 win!

Back in our 2013/14 promotion season, Carl refereed two Dale games and proved a lucky charm as they produced six points.

Early in the campaign he was in charge of the 1-0 home defeat of bury and in late-March he was the man in the middle as we won 2-0 at Wycombe.

Carl’s full record at Dale matches is:

Aug 02 Southend (h), L 1-2

Jan 03 Lincoln (h), L 0-1

Jan 05 Notts Co (a), D 0-0

Apr 05 Leyton Orient (h), W 2-0

Aug 05 Bradford (h, CC), L 0-5

Apr 06 Barnet (h), D 1-1

Sep 06 Shrewsbury (h), D 1-1

Dec 06 Hartlepool U (a), L 0-1

Oct 07 Darlington (a), D 1-1

Feb 08 Bradford (a), W 2-1

Oct 08 Morecambe (a), D 1-1

Apr 10 Bournemouth (h), D 0-0

Jan 11 Tranmere (h), W 3-2

Feb 12 Bournemouth (h), W 1-0

Mar 13 Morecambe (a), L 0-3

Sep 13 bury (h), W 1-0

Mar 14 Wycombe (a), W 2-0

Aug 14 Chesterfield (a), L 1-2

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