The familiar figure of Andy Haines will referee Dale’s Boxing Day home clash against Fleetwood Town.

This is a change from the original appointment, who was first season referee, James Oldham from Derbyshire.

Mr Haines will be taking take charge of his 31st Dale match and the 29th at the Crown Oil Arena/Spotland, which we are confident is a record for the club by a considerable distance.

We last saw Andy in August when he refereed Dale’s 5-2 home win over Bolton in the Carabao Cup.

His most recent league fixture involving Dale was the 1-0 home defeat of Wycombe on Good Friday which set us on the way to clinching our League One survival later that weekend.

Haines’ most notable Dale game came on 17th April 2010 when we clinched promotion from League Two with a 1-0 victory over Northampton.

The full list of Andy’s Dale matches is:

Sep 07 Rochdale v Macclesfield D 1-1
Jan 08 Chesterfield v Rochdale W 4-3
Apr 08 Rochdale v Bradford W 2-1
Sep 08 Rochdale v Chesterfield W 2-1
Apr 09 Rochdale v Port Vale W 1-0
Jul 09 Rochdale v Everton (friendly) L 1-4
Aug 09 Rochdale v Cheltenham L 0-1
Apr 10 Rochdale v Northampton W 1-0
Jul 10 Rochdale v Bolton (friendly) D 1-1
Oct 10 Rochdale v Yeovil L 0-1
Jan 11 Rochdale v Leyton Orient D 1-1
Jul 11 Rochdale v Leeds (friendly) L 0-1
Aug 11 Rochdale v Huddersfield D 2-2
Nov 11 Rochdale v Preston (JPT) D 1-1 (lost on pens)
Jul 12 Rochdale v Hull (friendly) L 0-1
Sep 12 Rochdale v Burton L 0-1
Feb 13 Rochdale v Chesterfield D 1-1
Jul 13 Rochdale v Blackburn (friendly) D 2-2
Aug 13 Rochdale v Chesterfield D 2-2
Jul 14 Rochdale v Wigan (friendly) W 2-1
Apr 15 Rochdale v Port Vale W 1-0
Jul 15 Rochdale Blackburn (h, friendly), W 2-1
Aug 15 Rochdale v Peterborough W 2-0
Nov 16 Rochdale v Walsall W 4-0
Mar 17 Rochdale v Gillingham W 4-1
Aug 17 Shrewsbury v Rochdale L 2-3
Dec 17 Rochdale v Walsall D 1-1
Oct 18 Rochdale v Charlton W 1-0
Apr 19 Rochdale v Wycombe W 1-0
Aug 19 Rochdale v Bolton (CC) W 5-2

Before last Saturday, when Andy was appointed to Doncaster v Accrington, he had refereed 21 matches this season, in which he had shown 56 yellow cards and five

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