The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's League One game against Oldham Athletic is Dean Whitestone from Northampton.
Dean started refereeing in Northampton in 1992 and it was his father who was a class one referee, who got him interested. He progressed through the United Counties League, The Southern League, The Conference and onto the Football League as a referee in 2005/2006.
He was in charge of City's Capital One Cup defeat at Leyton Orient back in August, when he sent off Carl Baker and had two City games last season. - the Boxing Day win at Stevenage and the League Cup win over Birmingham City.
Before that, he has been in charge of the 3-0 win at Portsmouth in April 2011, the 1-1 draw against Blackpool on January 30th 2010, the 2-1 win at Northampton Town in a Jackson Grundy Cup game in July 2009, the 2-1 win at Charlton on December 9th 2008, the 1-0 home win over QPR on September 20th 2008 and a 1-1 home draw with Southend on December 30th 2006..
This season, according to Soccerbase, he has had 16 matches and shown 41 yellow cards and three red His last game was Millwall's 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest on December 3rd.
His Assistants are: Stephen Finch and Matt Foley. The Fourth Official is Ian Dudley