Thursday 20 February 2020

Meet The Ref - Latics v Millwall





Name: Jeremy Simpson  
Born: May 1975
Place of Birth: Carnforth


A former Premier League and FIFA International assistant referee, Simpson is part of the ‘Select Group 2’ of professional ref’s after rising rapidly through the refereeing ranks, he was at Conference level in 2012 and only found his feet in the Championship in the 2015/16 campaign when of the 35 games he took charge of over the season just 15 were at 2nd tier level.

So far this season 17 of his 22 games have been in the Championship.




Latics related Fact(s):
Simpson was the referee when the Latics put out their virtual youth team against Accrington Stanley in the Checkatrade Trophy back in 2017, not surprisingly they got a bit of a thumping.


Complete record of Jeremy Simpson’s Latics games



Date

Competition

Home Team

Score

Away Team
26-Aug-16
Championship
Latics
1:1
Birmingham
19-Nov-16
Championship
Barnsley
0:0
Latics
02-Jan-17
Championship
Latics
0:1
Huddersfield
04-Mar-17
Championship
Blackburn
1:0
Latics
29-Aug-17
Football League Trophy
Blackpool
1:1
Latics
07-Nov-17
Football League Trophy
Latics
0:4
Accrington
13-Feb-18
League 1
Latics
0:2
Blackpool
11-Aug-18
Championship
Aston Villa
3:2
Latics
20-Oct-18
Championship
Latics
1:0
West Brom
10-Aug-19
Championship
PNE
3:0
Latics
30-Nov-19
Championship
Latics
1:3
Reading

Jeremy Simpson record for Latics games is:

Home Games
P6 W1 D1 L4
Away Games
P5 W0 D1 L4
Overall Record
P11 W1 D2 L8

This referee has a Latics Love Factor of 11%

Jeremy Simpson Card Watch 2019/20

Games – 22
Yellows – 73
Reds – 6

Wigan Athletic v Millwall
Referee - JEREMY SIMPSON
Assistants - Shaun Hudson and Richard Wild
Fourth Official – Michael Salisbury

Grab a listen to this week's podcast which features a preview of Saturday's game with Millwall, just click play on the embedded player below.

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