First-year referee Jeremy Simpson is the man in the middle for Dale’s home game against Exeter City on Saturday.

The Carnforth-based PE teacher was promoted to the league in time for this season having progressed through the ranks in recent years.

This culminated in him refereeing last season’s Blue Square Premier League play-off final between York and Luton at Wembley.

Prior to his promotion, Jeremy had been an assistant referee on the Premier League and also a FIFA official, which meant he travelled overseas to ‘line’ at European and international matches.

Jeremy’s last visit to Spotland was as a linesman for our 1-0 win over Scunthorpe last season, while in 2010/11 he was on the line for the FA Cup tie against FC United and our first game in League One at home to Hartlepool.

Mr Simpson has had a busy start to his Football League career and Saturday will be his 14th match of the season.

He started with Cheltenham’s 2-0 home defeat of Dagenham on the opening day and was most recently at Tranmere v Walsall a couple of weeks ago. He has also already seen Exeter this term, refereeing their 4-2 win at Oxford in September.

In total, Jeremy’s 13 games have yielded 42 yellow cards and two red.

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PotterDale added 08:38 - Dec 7 Famous Simpsons: John- BBC News Foreign Correspondent, he was one of the first reporters to enter Afghanistan in 2001, famously disguised in a burqa Orenthal James- Retired American Football Running Back and actor. Career statistics: 11236 rushing yards, 61 rushing TDs, 6 Pro Bowls, 3 arrests, 1 conviction. Tom- English road race cyclist, notoriously died of exhaustion during the 1967 Tour de France after combining amphetamines and alcohol. Webb- American golfer, winner of the 2012 US Open Scott- American golfer, winner of the 1987 US Open Jessica- American pop singer and actress. Her favourite food is Fish (or is it Chicken?) Ashlee- American pop singer and sister of Jessica. Famously mimed and danced to the wrong song on Saturday Night Live due to "acid reflux" Wallis- American socialite whose third husband, The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) abdicated his throne to marry her.

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Toffeemanc added 11:46 - Dec 7 Hope he wasn't the linesman who failed to see the ball kicked out of the hands of Josh Lillis for the winning goal in that F.A. Cup tie against FC SCUM.
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Thacks_Rabbits added 20:38 - Dec 7 None of those are famous - Homer Jay Simpson is all you need say - "I am not a praying man, but if your up there, save me Superman" - comic genius and potentially more tactically aware than J.C.
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PotterDale added 12:09 - Dec 8 OK- Sorry
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