Cheshire official Mark Heywood will referee Tuesday’s game at Northampton, which might cause confusion among fans who like to keep track of this sort of thing.

That’s because Mark Heywood, with an ‘E’, shouldn’t be confused with West Yorkshire’s Mark Haywood, with an ‘A’, who refereed Dale’s home matches against Torquay and Mansfield this season.

We last saw Mr Heywood in November 2012 for the dreadful 1-0 home defeat by Morecambe in the FA Cup first round replay

His last league game involving Dale was at Spotland in October 2011 when Ashley Grimes scored twice in the 2-1 home win over Wycombe.

However, we have also seen Mark at pre-season friendlies against Radcliffe Borough and Manchester United in recent years.

So far this season Mr Heywood has refereed 17 games, showing 55 yellow cards and two red.

His most recent fixture was the 0-0 draw between Oxford and Portsmouth a fortnight ago.

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