FAMILIAR FACE AT HIGHBURY
The Match Officials for Bristol Rovers match at Highbury against Fleetwood Town have been announced.
The referee for the fixture on the 14th of January 2017 is Darren England from Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
Fleetwood Town
versus
Bristol Rovers.
Sky Bet Division ONE.
Saturday 14th January.
The Match Referee is
DARREN ENGLAND.
Assistant Referees are
Danny Markham
and Paul Newhouse.
The Fourth Official is
Simon Mather.
Darren England has been the referee for a Fleetwood Town fixture 3 times in the past.
The last time he was in charge of a Cod Army match was in the 2-1 defeat against Bolton on August 20th 2016.
Darren England has been the referee for a BRFC match on 6 previous occasions.
The last time he took charge of a Pirates game was on March 28th 2016 in the 3-2 defeat at Boundary Park.
He has refereed 24 league and cup matches this season, booked 64 players and issued 5 red cards.
He has awarded a total of 10 penalties this season, 6 to the Home team and 4 to the away team.
Very surprisingly, two of those Home penalties were unsuccessful from the Blades Billy Sharp and Gary Roberts from Pompey.