Refwatch Preview: Gillingham (h)
Mark Haywood will make the relatively short trip across the M62 from Wakefield to take charge of Dale’s home game against Gillingham on Saturday.
We last saw him in March for the heartbreaking 3-3 home draw with Walsall, while earlier last season he refereed the 3-1 home loss to Hartlepool.
Mark was also in charge of the magnificent 2-0 midweek win over Southampton in April 2011.
Saturday will be Mr Haywood’s 11th Dale game at league level, while he also refereed the Rose Bowl Challenge match against Oldham in July 2007.
His full list of Dale games is:
17/10/06 Wrexham (a, JPT) D 1-1 (won on pens)
9/4/07 Barnet (h) L 0-2
24/7/07 Oldham (h, Rose Bowl) W 2-1
14/8/07 Stoke (h, CC) D 2-2 (won on pens)
1/12/07 Wrexham (h) D 0-0
21/10/08 Chester (h) W 6-1
27/2/10 Macclesfield (a) W 1-0
10/12/10 Peterborough (a) L 1-2
12/4/11 Southampton (h) W 2-0
27/8/11 Hartlepool (h) L 1-3
31/3/12 Walsall (h) D 3-3
Mark has had a busy season and last Saturday he was seen live on Sky refereeing his 24th match of the campaign at Hull v Sheffield Wednesday.
Those games have yielded 58 yellow cards, but remarkably, as yet, no red!
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