Meet The Ref - Birmingham v Latics

Latics travel down to play Birmingham City on Saturday in a Championship fixture at St Andrews, chosen to referee the match is Hampshire official, Andy Davies. 

 

Andy Davies

Davies is a very rare breed in the referee circles having been a professional football player for Gillingham, Portsmouth and Yeovil, before injury forced him to retire at the tender age of 28.

Not one to feel sorry for himself, Andy immediately through himself into becoming a ref and he graduated rapidly onto the National List in 2012 and two years later he was taking charge of Championship games.

Since becoming an EFL referee Andy Davies has taken charge of 319 games, issued 1072 yellow and 53 red cards, pointing to the penalty spot on 89 occasions.

Previous Games

This will be Andy Davies’ eleventh Latics game, his first was our Championship 2:2 draw against Wolves at Molineux in the 2014/15 season, our home 1:1 draw with West Brom in December 2019 was his last, in that game he awarded West Brom an indirect free kick 8 yards from our goal after Jamie Jones picked up the ball following a back pass by Kal Naismith. West Brom scored and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Andy Davies’ most recent Birmingham City game came last season, a 1:2 home defeat to Blackburn in May. Davies booked just the one Blackburn player.

 

Andy Davies’ Latics Games

Date	Competition	Result	Latics Cards
14 Oct 2017	Championship	Wolves 2:2 Latics	4 Yellows
29 Mar 2016	League One	Swindon 1:4 Latics	2 Yellows
15 Oct 2016	Championship	Latics 0:0 Burton	0
04 Nov 2018	Championship	Latics 1:2 Leeds	2 Yellows
26 Jan 2019	Championship	Nottm Forest 3:1 Latics	2 Yellows
09 Mar 2019	Championship	Reading 3:0 Latics	3 Yellows
21 Sep 2019	Championship	Latics 2:0 Charlton	1 Yellow
09 Nov 2019	Championship	Latics 0:3 Brentford	2 Yellows 1 Red
11 Dec 2019	Championship	Latics 1:1 West Brom	1 Yellow

 

Andy Davies has had two games so far this season, Sutton United v Barrow and QPR v Blackpool last Tuesday.

 

Andy Davies Card Watch 2022/23

Games – 2

Yellows – 4

Reds – 0

Penalty Awards – 0

 

Birmingham City v Wigan Athletic
Referee – Andy Davies
Assistants – Graham Kane and Adrian Waters
Fourth Official – Sam Purkiss