Saturday's home match against Southend United will be controlled by Sussex-based referee Clive Penton. The match official actually made these news pages only last week after he took charge of the match between Bristol City and Swansea City, producing 10 yellow cards and one red card in a bad-tempered match.
Penton has taken charge in three Yeovil Town matches in the past. On the minus side, he was the man who sent off Jake Edwards at the Memorial Stadium in December 2003 as the Glovers won 1-0 against Bristol Rovers, despite the man disadvantage. The next day saw Sky Sports plead with the match referee to rescind the red card after video replays showed Rovers full-back Ijah Anderson stamping on the Yeovil striker, but Penton refused to budge.
A game involving Penton also grabbed the headlines last season. He was the match referee for the 3-2 win over Plymouth Argyle in the Carling Cup that saw Lee Johnson score the first of three goals in a bizarre fashion - knocking a 'backpass' into the Pilgrims net past a surprised Luke McCormick in the Argyle goal. In fairness there was little the match referee could have done within the laws of the game to legislate for that, even if it did provoke much debate.
To complete a trio of matches in which the Glovers have won, Penton also dealt with the 4-1 win over Wrexham in the FA Cup in November 2003. No-one notices the match referee when you thrash higher league opposition like that though!
Mr Penton is assisted by the familiar names of Keith Buller of Bridgwater and Andrew Turner of Devon. This will be Mr Buller's fifth visit of the season, with the most recent having come in the 2-0 win over Hartlepool United last month.
Meanwhile Mr Turner will be making his second visit of the season to Huish Park having acted as an assistant in the 2-1 win over Barnsley.
The fourth official will be Kevin Barnes of Wiltshire, who is making his second appearance of the season as fourth official following his role in the 2-1 win over Walsall last September.
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