Seven weeks since his last Dale game, long-serving EFL referee Graham Salisbury takes charge of our visit to Sunderland on Tuesday.

The Preston whistler, who has been on the league list since the start of the 2001/02 season, refereed Dale’s 3-1 defeat at Burton on 21st December, having also been in the middle at Fleetwood in September where we were beaten 2-1.

The game at the Stadium of Light on Tuesday will be Mr Salisbury’s 22nd Dale appointment, two of which were notable 4-2 away wins.

In March 2010 he refereed the 4-2 victory at Accrington which, as it transpired, proved to be the game that took Dale up from League Two.

Eighteen months later, in September 2011, Graham took charge of the 4-2 win at bury, in which Nicky Adams scored and was then sent-off for picking up a second yellow card after removing his shirt and waving it round his head!

The full list of Mr Salisbury’s Dale matches is:

Oct 01 Rochdale v Southport (LDV) W 2-0
Aug 04 Rochdale v Bury L 0-3
Oct 05 Rochdale v Notts Co W 3-0
Nov 05 Tranmere v Rochdale (LDV) L 2-3
Dec 05 Rochdale v Leyton Orient L 2-4
Apr 06 Notts Co v Rochdale D 1-1
Nov 08 Rochdale v Macclesfield D 1-1
Jul 09 Radcliffe v Rochdale (F) W 1-0
Dec 09 Rochdale v Morecambe W 4-1
Mar 10 Accrington v Rochdale W 4-2
Mar 11 Rochdale v Notts Co W 1-0
Sep 11 Bury v Rochdale W 4-2
Mar 12 Rochdale v Oldham W 3-2
Jan 16 Walsall v Rochdale W 3-0
Feb 16 Rochdale v Millwall L 0-1
Sep 16 Rochdale v Sunderland (CT) D 1-1 (won on pens)
Dec 16 Rochdale v Chesterfield (CT) L 0-2
Mar 18 Rotherham v Rochdale W 1-0
Jul 18 Rochdale v Middlesbrough (F) W 3-2
Aug 18 Rochdale v Walsall L 1-2
Sep 19 Fleetwood v Rochdale L 1-2
Dec 19 Burton v Rochdale L 1-3

Before Saturday, when he was due to officiate at Carlisle v Swindon, Graham had refereed 23 games this season, showing 76 yellow cards and one red.

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