Richard Clark is the man in the middle for Dale’s trip to Bradford City on Saturday.

The Northumberland official is in his fourth 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.

In 2013/14, Mr Clark officiated at Dale’s 2-1 home loss to Fleetwood, while last season he took charge of the FA Cup replay defeat of Northampton and the 2-1 midweek win at Notts County.

So far this term, Richard has refereed 18 matches, showing 51 yellow cards and three red, two of which were for Rotherham players in their 0-0 home draw with Birmingham last Saturday.

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