Rotherham United are at home on Boxing Day with Middlesbrough the visitors when Andrew Kitchen from Durham has the whistle.
After an injury saw him on the bench more often than in goal Andrew found himself watching the refereeing and he decided to take a course. In his first full season as an adult referee he was promoted from level seven to level five and he became the youngest referee to take charge of a Cup Final in the Consett Sunday League. Having spent two seasons in the National League, Andrew was promoted to the National Group List.
This will be the third time that Andrew and the Millers have met the last time was also a Boxing Day in 2021 at the Wham Stadium when a seventy-fifth minute Sean McConville goal gave Accrington a one-nil win.
The first was a few months earlier in October in the Papa John’s Trophy game at the New York Stadium when Scunthorpe were in town. Will Grigg and Freddie Ladapo gave the hosts a two-nil lead going into half-time with the Iron halving the score on sixty-five minutes before goals from Hakeem Odofin and Michael Smith gave the Millers a four-one win.
Andrew has been in the middle for seventeen games so far this season showing forty-seven yellow and one red card.
Running the line at the New York Stadium we have Shaun Hudson and Jonathan Hunt and the Fourth Official will be David Webb.
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