Rotherham United are back in Cup action on Tuesday night when they travel to the Bet 365 Stadium to take on Stoke City when the referee will be Michael Salisbury from Lancashire.
Michael was last in charge of a Millers game in September last year when Blackpool were the visitors to the New York Stadium. Chieo Ogbene put the hosts in front on the thirty-fourth minutes with second half goals from Wes Harding and Georgie Kelly giving the Millers all three points. There was a yellow card for each team that evening, Ollie Rathbone getting the one for Rotherham.
Before this Michael and the Millers met in April 2021 at the Brentford Community Stadium when a twenty-six minute goal from Bryan Mbeumo gave the Bees all three points. There were no yellow cards in the game. Earlier that season he had been in charge of our game at the Riverside when the Millers beat Middlesbrough three-nil with a Matt Crooks goal just before half-time, a Michael Smith penalty after Marcus Bettinelli felled Freddie Ladapo and a Ryan Giles debut goal in time added on.
It had been February 2020 the time before that when Michael was the ref in a Millers game when Rotherham entertained AFC Wimbledon at the New York Stadium. Max Sanders put the visitors in front on the half-hour mark with second half goals from Matt Crooks and Freddie Ladapo giving the hosts the lead but a Kwesi Appiah penalty three minutes into stoppage time gave Wimbledon a point. Earlier that season Michael had been in the middle for our game at the Memorial Stadium which saw former Miller Jonson Clarke-Harris score the only goal for Bristol Rovers to give them all three points. There were no cards issued that day.
Before that Michael has reffed Rotherham four times the first time was on 12 August 2017 when a Kieffer Moore hat-trick plus goals from Joe Newell and Ryan Williams saw Rotherham beat Southend at the New York Stadium. Newell and Moore saw yellow that afternoon as well as the visitors Simon Cox. The same season in the February saw Michael in the middle for our two-nil home win over Wimbledon. The game was just less than a quarter of an hour old when Michael Smith scored the first goal, the second one coming two minutes into time added on at the end of the game when David Ball scored from a re-bound after Ryan Williams saw his shot saved.
In March 2018 Michael had the whistle for our game at Stadium:mk. Semi Ajayi headed the visitors in front on nine minutes but two first half goals from Robbie Muirhead and Peter Pawlet gave MK Dons a two-one lead at half-time. Muirhead scored another twelve minutes into the second half with Jon Taylor scoring for the Millers with fifteen minutes to go but Rotherham couldn’t get an equaliser and the Dons won three-two.
September 2019 saw him ref our game at the Memorial Stadium when a goal from Jonson Clarke-Harris just after the break win the game against Bristol Rovers.
The only other game Michael has been in charge of this season was yesterday when Burnley met Aston Villa at Turf Moor, Villa winning three-one and Michael showing two yellow cards.
Running the line on Tuesday night is Richard West and Derek Eaton and David Webb is the Fourth Official.
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