Hull referee Carl Boyeson will be the man in the middle for Dale’s Boxing Day fixture against Chesterfield.

This will be the second consecutive season in which he has refereed this particular fixture, while Carl was also in the middle for our 2-1 defeat at Chesterfield in August 2014.

Having joined the league list in 2002, Monday will be Boyeson’s 22nd game involving Dale, with the most incident-packed coming at Notts County in January 2005.

The match finished 0-0 and was a fairly timid affair, but Carl 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Cooksey’s red card was later rescinded, meaning he was free to take part in the FA Cup tie at Charlton five days later.

We last saw Mr Boyeson in August when he was at the Crown Oil Arena for Dale’s 1-0 loss to MK Dons.

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 of 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

Sep 15 Burton (a), L 0-1

Jan 16 Chesterfield (h), L 2-3

Aug 16 MK Dons (h), L 0-1

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