Match Officials

James Oldham is the man in the middle for Yeovil’s FA Trophy quarter final tie up at Southport.

We actually saw him on New Years’ Day 2025, when we lost 2-1 away at Forest Green Rovers, if you recall, Kofi Shaw scored, gave a penalty away and got sent off.

This season, he’s been fairly busy, but mostly in the EFL – he’s officiated more games in League Two than any other division.

In total he’s taken charge of 21 games, across seven competitions giving out a total of 85 yellows, four reds and pointing to the spot on five occasions.

As far as I can tell, he’s taken charge of two Southport fixtures, but not for a while, most recently in January 2018 – a 1-0 loss to FC United of Manchester.

He will be assisted by Ollie Bickle and Niall Felton whilst Kavan Hurn is looking after the dugouts.

Southport FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
F.A. Challenge Trophy
Referee: Oldham, James
Assistant Referee: Bickle, Oliver
Assistant Referee: Felton, Niall
Fourth Official: Hurn, Kavan

Son of former Premier League referee Paul Durkin, James is the match official who will look after the Glovers’ game vs Sutton United this midweek.

We haven’t seen James for a little while actually, not since a 1-1 draw away at Aldershot in April 2023. Six Glovers got booked that day, including both Coopers.

In total, we’ve had him six times, just winning the one – a 2-1 win over Bromley in 2022.

As an additional quirk, back on 27th October, 2010, he took charge of this exact fixture. That game ended in a 2-1 win for Sutton; Joe Quigley scoring in between two Harry Beautyman efforts.

So far, this season, he’s taken charge of 25 games across six competitions, dishing out a clean 100 cards (4 per game on average for the maths wizzes) six reds and nine penalties have also been at the centre of his matches.

He has already seen a Sutton United game this season, a 4-2 defeat away at Wealdstone.

Adam Wilson and James Tewson will be on flagging duties with Jack Clench the fourth official.

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Sutton United FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Durkin, James
Assistant Referee: Wilson, Adam
Assistant Referee: Tewson, James
Fourth Official: Clench, Jack

Michael Barlow has the honour of making his way to Brunton Park this Saturday to take charge of the game between Yeovil Town and Carlisle United.

A referee we’ve only seen twice, both on both occasions things didn’t go particularly well for the Glovers.

He took charge of a 1-0 away defeat to Halifax in April 2022, and then, just shy of a year later he took charge of the 3-0 defeat to Wrexham which sealed Yeovil’s relegation out of the National League and into the NLS.

He’s only taken one Carlisle game in his career, a 2-1 defeat away at Southend back in November.

13 games in total for Mr Barlow this season, resulting in 45 yellows (3.46 per game) two reds – both in the EFL – and just one solitary penalty awarded!

He’ll be assisted by George Eaton and Mark Cunliffe with Andrew Daniels on fourth official duties.

Carlisle United (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Barlow, Michael
Assistant Referee: Eaton, George
Assistant Referee: Cunliffe, Mark
Fourth Official: Daniels, Andrew

Greg Rollason will take charge of Yeovil’s midweek clash with Aldershot this coming Tuesday.

We’ve seen Mr Rollason a few times in recent season’s, but not for a while.

Most recently, he took charge of the 3-2 home win over Ebbsfleet in the National League South, he booked Aaron Jarvis that night… which won’t be an issue this coming Tuesday.

He also over saw a 2-0 win over Torquay on New Years’ Day 2023.

In total, he’s refereed Yeovil five times, the Glovers winning three, drawing one and losing just once.

He’s taken charge of just eight games at National League level, this season – including a 4-1 win for Aldershot over Eastleigh – but has been used more regularly in the EFL Competitions.

In 18 games, he’s dished out 77 yellow cards (4.2 per game), just one red card and pointed to the spot seven times.

Samuel Fudge and Mark Senior will join him as assistants with David Middleton on fourth official duties.

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Aldershot Town (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Rollason, Greg
Assistant Referee: Fudge, Samuel
Assistant Referee: Senior, Mark
Fourth Official: Middleton, David

Lewis Sandoe has already refereed Yeovil Town vs Maidstone United once in his career, he’ll do it again on Saturday.

That match was back in August of 2023 and actually saw the Glovers draw 1-1 with their opponents, Rhys Murphy salvaging a point late on in the piece.

We have also already seen him this season, a 3-1 home defeat to York City, he gave Ollie Pearce the the chance to tap in another goal from 12 yards which he duly obliged.

James Plant and Aaron Jarvis both saw Yellow on the day.

Overall Mr Sandoe has taken charge of 11 games this season across the National League, the silly National League Cup rubbish, the Premier League U21 league and cups.

He’s given out 36 yellows, just one red (to Brighton U21s Noel Atom) and a couple of penalties have been awarded.

He’ll be assisted by Richard J. Morris and Dean Treleavan with Matt Eva on dugout duty.

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Maidstone United FC (First Team)
F.A. Challenge Trophy    
Referee: Sandoe, Lewis
Assistant Referee: Morris, Richard J.
Assistant Referee: Treleaven, Dean
Fourth Official: Eva, Matt

Yeovil Town make the short trip north to Hartlepool this weekend and the man in the middle will be Dean Watson, a referee we have seen before, but only in the north of the country.

He took charge of the 1-1 draw away at Chesterfield (yes, that’s the north!) during the relegation season from the National League, Ryan Law salvaging a point with a header on that day.

More recently, he was also at the Shay when Yeovil lost 1-0 to Halifax thanks to an early Angelo Capello goal, Alex Whittle and FC-D were both booked on that occasion.

On the whole, Mr Watson has been one of the more lenient officials, in eight games across the National League and Premier League reserve leagues and cups, he’s issued 29 yellow cards, with 16 of those coming in two feisty encounters. 

He’s yet to offer anyone a red card and has only pointed to the penalty spot, once. 

He will be assisted by Simon Robinson and Jack Neild with David Jones looking after the dug outs.  

Dom Bernard offers Mr Watson some tips on keeping his shorts up high.

Hartlepool United FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Watson, Dean
Assistant Referee: Robinson, Simon
Assistant Referee: Nield, Jack
Fourth Official: Jones, David

We weren’t entire sure this match would happen at one point this season, but the Glovers are off to Morecambe on Saturday and the man in charge is Mr Declan Brown.

We’ve only seen him once before, at Huish Park back in April of this year when he took charge of a 1-1 draw against Forest Green Rovers.

He booked just one Glover – Frankie Terry – but dished out a few more to the visitors.

He also got a rather scathing name check in the post match chat, Manager Mark Cooper said…

“But there is a cast iron penalty and red card in the second half where Ciaran McGuckin is about to tap the ball in and that is game over for me. I’m not blaming the referee, but they should not have a chance to get back at us in the last minute, it should have been game over. Between the four officials they have to see that, I think it was Ryan Inniss (the offender appears to be Tozer) who swipes McGuckin’s legs away when he is about to tap the ball in the goal. How four of them missed that I find incredible, but I do not want to take anything away from the players performance today.”

Inniss would go on to score an injury time equaliser to level the game at 1-1.

Brown has reffed six games in the National League this season with an average of three yellows per game, he took charge of Morecambe’s 2-0 home defeat to Woking in late August.

Brown will be assisted by Matthew Malton and Stephen Rushworth, Jacob Viera is in the dug outs. 

Morecambe FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Brown, Declan
Assistant Referee: Malton, Matthew
Assistant Referee: Rushworth, Stephen
Fourth Official: Viera, Jacob

A familiar face will take charge of the Glovers this weekend as we welcome Southend United to Huish Park.

Scott Jackson is predominantly an EFL official these days, taking charge of a dozen or so games above the National League level this campaign.

In 14 appearances this season, he’s dished out 48 yellows and two reds.

We’ve seen him a fair few times at Huish Park, in fact, this weekend’s game will take him to 10 Glovers games officiated in his career across league and National Cup – the joint most alongside Woking, Wealdstone and Maidenhead, but it’s actually slightly more than that, as he also took charge of the Somerset Men’s Premier Cup final win over Bath City a couple of years ago.

We last had Mr Jackson in charge back in the 2022/23 season, in a home 0-0 draw with Wealdstone, Owen Bevan was sent off on that day for a rather … robust… challenge, no real arguments from us.

However, roll back the calendar to Boxing Day of 2021, he took charge of a disastrous 3-0 defeat to Torquay United, he sent off Sonny Blu Lo-Everton and then, after the final whistle, also gave Grant Smith his marching orders, which would mean he would miss the New Years’ game against Torquay and, the FA Cup clash against Bournemouth – so basically, Jackson is at fault for the whole ‘Dillon Barnes thing’ (well, ok, not quite).

Beyond that, he was in charge when Rhys Murphy scored a hat-trick to put the claret and blue Seagull Botherers in their place earlier that season, and also when we won 3-1 in home ties against Barnet and Kings Lynn – overall, we have a rather good record in games that Mr Jackson has officiated. 

Mr Jackson will be assisted by Ryan Saward and Ivan Stankovic with Neil Pratt marshalling the dugouts. 

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Southend United FC (First Team)
National League – Premier   
Referee: Jackson, Scott
Assistant Referee: Saward, Ryan
Assistant Referee: Stankovic, Ivan
Fourth Official: Pratt, Neil

Yeovil Town head up the road to Scunthorpe this Saturday as will match official, Richard Aspinall.

If you’re thinking you’ve heard that name before, you’d be right. He refereed our recent match at Halifax Town.

On that day, he awarded the Glovers a penalty – cooly converted by Junior Morias, but it wasn’t enough as the hosts made a comeback in Richard Dryden’s first match in charge following the departure of Mark Cooper.

That was the first time Mr Aspinall had ever taken charge of a Yeovil fixture.

In total, he’s been man in the middle for four National League games, 17 yellow cards have been brandished, but no red ones.

Scunthorpe United FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Aspinall, Richard
Assistant Referee: Morris, Richard A.
Assistant Referee: Murray, William
Fourth Official: Burgess, Adam

William Davies is our referee this Saturday when Yeovil Town welcome Carlisle United to Huish Park.

Will refereed us twice last year, a 2-2 draw with Southend United and a 3-1 win over Maidenhead United.

Both games appear to have passed without so much as a grumble toward the officials, which is nice.

In fact, that 2-2 draw with the Shrimpers saw just one yellow card issued, although Mr Jarvis and Mr Bernard both had their names taken in that first fixture.

In fact, he’s one of the more lenient officials on the circuit, in 7 games this season across NL, EFL Trophy and Premier League 2, he’s just dipped into the pocket for the yellow 17 times, the red one came out for the first time this season on Tuesday, whatever Jack Fletcher did for Man Utd U21s in the seventh minute must have been worthy.

Ashley Allen and James Tewson have the flags in hand whilst Brandon Scaife is fourth official – he’ll be making sure suspended Mark Hughes doesn’t sneak into the dug out! 

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Carlisle United (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Davis, William
Assistant Referee: Allen, Ashley
Assistant Referee: Tewson, James
Fourth Official: Scaife, Brandon