One of our most frequent referees in recent years has been appointed to the Easter Monday home fixture against Port Vale.
Andy Haines is now in his eighth season as a Football League referee and on Monday will take charge at Spotland for the 20th time, a figure that is most likely a record for Dale’s home ground.
We haven’t seen him in league action since early last season when he refereed the exciting 2-2 draw with Chesterfield, but Andy has visited us in the meantime for the pre-season friendly against Wigan.
Remarkably, that Chesterfield game was the third time Mr Haines has refereed that particular fixture at Spotland, while in January 2008 he was in charge at Saltergate when David Perkins scored his fine hat-trick in Dale’s exciting 4-3 defeat of The Spireites.
With a link to Monday, the Tyne & Wear official was in the middle for our last home win over Port Vale in April 2009, while 12 months later he was the referee on the day Dale clinched promotion from League Two with a 1-0 victory over Northampton.
The full list of Mr Haines’ Dale matches is:
Sep 07 Macclesfield (h), D 1-1
Jan 08 Chesterfield (a), W 4-3
Apr 08 Bradford (h), W 2-1
Sep 08 Chesterfield (h), W 2-1
Apr 09 Port Vale (h), W 1-0
Jul 09 Everton (h, friendly), L 1-4
Aug 09 Cheltenham (h), L 0-1
Apr 10 Northampton (h), W 1-0
Jul 10 Bolton (h, friendly), D 1-1
Oct 10 Yeovil (h), L 0-1
Jan 11 Leyton Orient (h), D 1-1
Jul 11 Leeds (h, friendly), L 0-1
Aug 11 Huddersfield (h), D 2-2
Nov 11 Preston (h, JPT), D 1-1 (lost on pens)
Jul 12 Hull (h, friendly), L 0-1
Sep 12 Burton (h), L 0-1
Feb 13 Chesterfield (h), D 1-1
Jul 13 Blackburn (h, friendly), D 2-2
Aug 13 Chesterfield (h), D 2-2
Jul 2014 Wigan (h, friendly), W 2-1
So far this season Andy has refereed 24 games, showing 64 yellow cards and three red.
His most recent fixture was Hartlepool v Cambridge just over a week ago