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Dear Mr Russell, 

We are pleased to confirm your appointment for the Weekend of Saturday 7th December 2024, you will be officiating;

YEOVIL TOWN V W*YMOUTH IN THE FA TROPHY.

That was an exact(ish) email that dropped into the inbox of Mr Matthew Russell this past week, do you reckon he enjoyed reading it?

The next instalment of what has become a fairly well trodden recent rivalry will see our friends from the coast head to Huish Park, thankfully our official for the day, Mr Russell is a fairly experienced one.

So far this season, he’s been used in League Two, the EFL Trophy and the National League and on the whole, he’s been fairly lenient with his cards – 31 yellows and just two reds in 11 games.

He’s refereed the Glovers nine times, including twice in 1-1 home draws with Altrincham, a 5-0 FA Cup win over Yate Town and a 6-1 defeat to Torquay… although, we can’t really put that one on him.

He’s booked 19 Yeovil players, awarded us two penalties and was even kind enough to send off Alty’s James Jones a couple of years ago (below)

He’ll be assisted by Jack Clench, James Hooper whilst Carl Peters has the job of keeping tabs of Mark Cooper and whoever the other lot decide is in charge this week.

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Not many more away days this year for the Glovers’ faithful, it’s off to Woking on Saturday and joining us making the trip there will be our referee for the afternoon, Mr Aaron Farmer.

You’d think, with a name like Farmer, he’d have refereed a Somerset side more, but it is in fact his first ever time officiating the Glovers.

The Colchester-based whistler has taken charge of a number of Woking games, including a fairly routine 3-0 away win at Ebbslfeet.

He did book Dale Gorman in that game, but let’s face it, who hasn’t booked Dale Gorman at some point in there life? I’m sure I have at least once.

In total, he’s reffed the Cards four times, awarded them two penalties and booked 19 of their players (not all of them were Dale Gorman).

He even sent off Jermaine Anderson in a 3-2 win over Gateshead last season, two yellow cards in the 88th and 90+11th minute, some classic time wasting was simply not tolerated.

Mr Farmer will be assisted by Chris Myatt, Steve Finch and Andy Hickman is our fourth official.

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Yeovil Town host Barnet this coming Wednesday night (remember, Wednesday… not Tuesday!) and the referee for the clash is Mr Andrew Humphries.

He has already officiated one Barnet game this season, a 2-1 win over Forest Green Rovers, where he gave three yellows and one red – to Rovers’ Sean Long.

He’s been far more card happy for Premier League youngsters than National League games this season – one clash between Norwich and Man Utd U21s saw eight goals… and TEN yellow cards!

He’s never taken charge of a Yeovil Town game.

Mr Humphries will be assisted by Sean Rothwell, Jake Hillier and Lewis Sandoe

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Yeovil Town make the trip to North Yorkshire this Saturday for a clash with York City.

Oliver Mackey is the lucky duck who gets to officiate the game, he’s jumped between National League and EFL games this season, taking charge of four games at this level, putting a total of 20 names into his little notebook.

We have seen him before, he was the referee for Bath City against Yeovil in the National League South, where if you recall, he awarded the Glovers a (stone wall) free kick late on which Morgan Williams turned home for the winner. Great decision, ref.

He did book Jordan Young and Matt Worthington though. 

He’s also had the honour of refereeing one Jude Bellingham when the then Birmingham player was captain of England Under 16s in the 2018/19 season, in a 2-2 draw with Brazil Under 16s. 

Mr Mackey will be assisted by Richard Wigglesworth, Adam Burgess and Ben Tomlinson, the latter will be on fourth official duties.

 

 

 

 

 

YORK CITY (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Mackey, Oliver
Assistant Referee: Wigglesworth, Richard
Assistant Referee: Burgess, Adam
Fourth Official: Tomlinson, Benjamin

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It’s back to Huish Park this Saturday and Yeovil Town’s clash against Halifax will be referee’d by Mr Jason Richardson.

Mr Richardson has been in charge of just a couple of National League games so far this season including a feisty game between Eastleigh and Fylde.

Six goals, eight yellow cards, one red card and two penalties kicks.

As far as I can tell, he’s never taken charge of a Yeovil game before, but he has reffed one Halifax Town game, a snoozefest of a 0-0 draw against Dorking Wanderers in March 2023.

He’ll be assisted by Martin Bloor (who was assistant for the home game against Ebbsfleet) and Mark Senior (who was assistant for the Solihull home game) whilst Phillip Eddie (who was also holding a sub’s board for the Ebbsfleet game) is on fourth official duties.

 

 

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It’s been a while since the Glovers were back in action and finally, Yeovil can go back in search of three points this weekend.

But as ever, we need some officials and here’s who will be taking charge of the game against Southend.

Abigail Byrne will be tasked with keeping everything in order, she’s only refereed a handful of games at domestic level this season, including two in National League; dishing out six yellow cards a piece in two games at this level.

She’s done some EFL Trophy ties and some Under 21s games too.

But, most recently she’s been part of an English officiating team at the FIFA Under 17s Women’s World Cup in the Dominican Republic (I mean, there are worse places to referee a football match!) most recently acting as Fourth Official for the clash between Nigeria and the host nation on October 22nd.

She’s never taken charge of a Yeovil game, but did oversee a rather underwhelming 2-1 win for Southend over Maidenhead last season.

Arguably, her most high profile appointment came in 2013 when she was in charge of SoccerAid at a packed out Old Trafford where the Rest of the World beat England to win the trophy and raise a boat load of cash for UNICEF along the way.

If you can keep up with the pace of play with Usain Bolt in the team, I don’t think any of our lot will cause much hassle.

Abigail will be assisted by Laurentiu Hantea and Graham Swanton, with Tommy Breen in charge of the dugouts.

Abigail Byrne referees SoccerAid 2023

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… at least he can’t be as bad as the ref we had on Tuesday.

The Glovers are back at Huish Park for the visit of Maidenhead United this coming Saturday afternoon and we have Mr William Davies in charge.

Davies has never taken charge of a Yeovil game with most of his games taking place in the North and Midlands.

He’s officiated seven National League Premier games this season.

He’s dished out 24 yellows and zero red cards.

He was though in charge of a feisty clash between Everton U21s and their counterparts from Reading. The game was 3-0 to Everton with 72 minutes on the clock (including a goal from the penalty spot, below) but a Verrell George Hat Trick drew the game level, including a 90th minute incident which saw Toffee’s youngster Harrison Armstrong sent off.

Mr Davies will be assisted by Adam Ricketts and Sean Rothwell with Samuel Fudge making his THIRD Huish Park appearance of the season.

Referee Will Davies

 

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It’s one of football’s age old questions, can you do it on a cold, wet Tuesday night in Tamworth?

Let’s hope the Glovers can.

One man who definitely can is our match referee for the evening John Mulligan.

At time of writing, he’s taken charge of three National League games this season and dished out a whopping 19 yellow cards.

Mainly based in the north, Mr Mulligan has NEVER taken charge of either a Yeovil or a Tamworth game, which makes this preview quite tricky, but as this season represents his second at the level, we wont hold it against him.

Speaking of his promotion to this level, his boss at the Cumbrian FA said;

“We are so pleased for John, as he has gained a fully deserved FA promotion to Level 2a.

“Having missed out as part of the mid-season promotion, John worked even harder on his game over the past few months, which highlights his commitment to refereeing.

“John is one of our county Centre of Refereeing Excellence (CORE) group coaches and we often talk about resilience to younger referees and those wishing to progress from grassroots level. John is the perfect example of that attribute.

Mr Mulligan will be assisted by the tastiest sounding linesman on the circuit Matt Bacon with Ryan McIlravey also waving a flag about. Jake Allsopp is making the half time teas… and other important Fourth Official Business.

 

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Right, the FA Cup is done, time to concentrate on the league, right? Good.

Yeovil head to Wealdstone on Saturday and we’re going to need a referee.

Mr Sam Mulhall is our official for the game, he’s refereed Yeovil three times in his life… but it could have been four, more on that in a moment.

The last time we saw Mr Mulhall, was when we beat Gateshead 3-1 at Huish Park in November 2022, he only booked Matt Worthington on that occasion, all good.

He was though, also in charge for a 1-0 defeat to Southend a month or so prior to that, he sent of Gime Toure for *checks notes* an “off the ball incident”. 

Referee Sam Mulhall shows Gime Toure a red card

There was also a 0-0 against Wealdstone that same season, he sent off Lewis Kinsella after just nine minutes for kicking Malachi Linton and gave the Glovers a late penalty, Linton stepped up, but put the spot kick into a neighbouring borough of London. Eurgh.

Referee Sam Mulhall sends Lewis Kinsella off for a VERY early bath.

Now, onto that game he NEARLY refereed.

Mr Mulhall was subject of a ‘formal complaint’ by Yeovil Town after he made a decision to call off a home game against Altrincham in January 2023.

The Glovers had a ‘heater’ on one area of the penalty area in front of the Thatchers Stand and that was deemed troublesome enough for Mr Mulhall to send the Lancashire-based side back up north and looking forward to a midweek trip in Somerset.

Awkward. 

Mulhall will be assisted by Daniel Robinson, Andy Bennett and Daniel Baines is in the fourth official’s chair.

 

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It’s time to turn our attention to the FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round and the Glovers head to Chesham to play for a spot in the first round proper.

Our officials for the game have been confirmed and it’s Mr Scott Tallis who will take charge.

Mr Tallis has been mainly an EFL Referee for this current season, but is well versed in the National League set up… and refereeing Yeovil Town games.

He’s officiated the Glovers six times, and fairly oddly has awarded us four penalties in that time.

The last time we saw him was not a good experience though, it was the 2-1 defeat to Scunthorpe on the opening day of the 2022/23 season – Chris Hargreaves’ first competitive fixture in charge.

He was also in the middle for a sublime Joe Quigley hat trick against Solihull Moors and Quigley benefitted again when he scored from the spot after Luke Wilkinson had been booted into the air by an Aldershot defender early in the 2021-22 season.

Mr Tallis will be assisted by Grant Taylor, Niall Fenton and Ashley Clarke is on fourth official duties.

Mr Tallis decides that kicking Luke Wilkinson really hard, is a foul. Quite right too.