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Article: Father and son to create Football League history.
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- News Post Leader (Whitley Bay, England)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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CLIVE and Michael Oliver will be the respective men in the middle at separate matches in the Football League Championship on Saturday.
And at the same time the pair - based in Ashington - will etch another chapter in the history books when they become the first father and son team to officiate on the referees list of the Football League.
History was already made - at the double - when the pair both took charge of games on the same day in March when as part of his training, Michael at 22 years and 18-days-old consequently became the youngest ever to referee in the Football League when he took charge of the Hereford v Grimsby match whilst father Clive made ...