Meet The Ref - Latics v West Brom

Latics are back at the DW Stadium on Tuesday, a Championship game under the lights against West Brom, in charge of the game will be Northants referee, Andy Woolmer.

 

Andy Woolmer

The 56 year old has been a Football League referee since 2004, his first game being the League 2 goalless draw between Kidderminster Harriers and Notts County on the 10^th August that year.

 

 Previous Games

The first of the twelve Latics’ games that he's been in charge of came on the 29^th April 2014 away at Birmingham in the Championship and his last was the 1:2 away win at Plymouth last November as we stormed our way to the League One title.

Woolmer is now a veteran of 609 games in which he has handed out a grand total of 1,749 yellow and, surprisingly, just 67 red cards over the 19 seasons that he has been active in league football.

Andy Woolmer was last in charge of a West Brom game back in September 2021, a Championship encounter with Millwall at the Hawthorns, the game ended 1:1 with 4 yellow cards dished out, 3 to Millwall players and one to our old friend Cedric Kipre.

Five games for Andy Woolmer so far this season, his first to kick off the new campaign was a bit tasty, a goalless draw between Swindon and Salford which produced 7 yellow cards and one red for Swindon players, with Salford picking up just the one yellow.

 

Andy Woolmer’s Latics Games

Date	Competition	Result	Latics Cards
29 Apr 2014	Championship	Birmingham 0:1 Latics	0
22 Sep 2014	Championship	Latics 1:2 Ipswich	0
24 Feb 2015	Championship	Latics 0:1 Cardiff	2 Yellow
02 May 2015	Championship	Brentford 3:0 Latics	2 Yellow
12 Jan 2016	League 1	Latics 3:3 Sheff Utd	4 Yellow
01 Oct 2016	Championship	Brentford 0:0 Latics	3 Yellow
10 Feb 2018	League 1	Southend 3:1 Latics	3 Yellow
28 Apr 2018	League 1	Latics 1:1 Wimbledon	0
30 Mar 2019	Championship	Latics 0:0 Brentford	1 Yellow
05 May 2019	Championship	Latics 1:0 Millwall	0
31 Aug 2019	Championship	Latics 0:0 Barnsley	1 Yellow
27 Nov 2021	League One	Plymouth 1:2 Latics	2 Yellows

 

Andy Woolmer Card Watch 2022/23

Games – 5

Yellows – 21

Reds – 1

Penalty Awards – 1

 

Wigan Athletic v West Brom
Referee – Andy Woolmer
Assistants – Matt McGrath and Mark Stevens
Fourth Official – Tom Parsons

 

Grab a listen to the latest PWU Latics podcast featuring a preview of the West Brom game.