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"I think it's a huge achievement, but there's still a long way to go," Hickson-Lovence tells BBC Sport.
The Football Association has set targets of increasing the diversity of match officials across the footballing pyramid and wants an increase of 1,000 women referees and 1,000 black or Asian referees at all levels in three years.
Former firefighter Allison, 42, was appointed to the fixture by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), and although this is the first step towards the FA target, why has it taken 15 years?
He's lost a wife because of flipping burgers but gained another one because of it. His own three children – Adam now taking the reins of the diner – were born into the smell of onion burgers and have diner blood running through their veins. And it's all thanks to the Oklahoma fried onion burger, which rose from the scarcity of the Great Depression, thus earning the quaint nickname of the "Depression Burger".
During America's Great Depression in the 1930s, hamburger meat was expensive. In the small community of El Reno, a dreamer named Ross Davis and his father opened the Hamburger Inn, scoring a prime location along the brand-new famed Route 66 highway right as the economy shattered.
Last year, The El Reno Main Street sold out of burgers for the first time in history, not counting the thousands of burgers cooked by Sid's, Johnnie's Hamburgers and Coneys and Roberts. "It's an incredible weekend," said Ford. "El Reno is where the fried onion burger originated. It's been passed down from generation to generation, and we have perfected it to the best."
"Well, obviously with the announcement, it wasn't like, 'Oh my God, it's a black referee'. It was more like, 'Oh, it's a black referee'," the former England striker, 60, recalled.
"I always found that when I played with him [as the referee] there was no real interaction.
"With some of the other referees, you could speak to them, have a little banter. And I think that the pressure he probably would have been under - to not have that kind of interaction with the other black players - must have been really intense, simply because of what people might say."
Rennie took charge of his final game in the Premier League on the last day of the 2007-08 season.
At 6ft 2in and a practitioner of kick-boxing and aikido, Rennie was an imposing figure who players soon learned would be more than comfortable standing his ground during an exchange.