Meet The Ref - Cardiff City v Latics

Latics are back in Championship action on Saturday, a trip down to South Wales to face Cardiff City, the referee for the game will be Carnforth official, Jeremy Simpson.

 

Jeremy Simpson

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 found his feet in the Championship in the 2015/16 campaign when of the 35 games he took charge of over the season 15 were at 2^nd tier level.

 Previous Games

Jeremy Simpson’s first Latics game came in the Championship, back in August 2016, a 1:1 draw at the DW Stadium against Birmingham City, Craig Davies scoring a 90^th minute equaliser.

47 year old Simpson has previously taken charge of 15 Latics games, 7 of those games have been away from the DW Stadium, of which we’ve won one and lost four. In fact we have only won four games in which Jezza has been in charge, not the best of records.

 The last time Jeremy Simpson was officiating in a Wigan Athletic fixture was the 1-2 away win at Huddersfield earlier this season, Shinnie and Lang ending up with yellows

Jeremy Simpson last refereed Cardiff in their 2:0 away defeat at Millwall back in September.

15 games so far for Jeremy Simpson this season, 13 of which have been in the Championship.

 

Jeremy Simpson’s Latics Games

Date	Competition	Result	Latics Cards
13 Sep 2022	Championship	Huddersfield 1:2 Latics	2Y
18 Feb 2022	League One	Rotherham 1:1 Latics	4Y
30 Jun 2020	Championship	Latics 3:0 Stoke	1Y
22 Feb 2020	Championship	Latics 1:0 Millwall	1Y
20 Nov 2019	Championship	Latics 1:3 Reading	2Y
10 Aug 2019	Championship	Preston 3:0 Latics	2Y
20 Oct 2018	Championship	Latics 1:0 West Brom	3Y
11 Aug 2018	Championship	Aston Villa 3:2 Latics	4Y
13 Feb 2018	League One	Latics 0:2 Blackpool	3Y
07 Nov 2017	EFL Trophy	Latics 0:4 Accrington	2Y
29 Aug 2017	EFL Trophy	Blackpool 1:1 Latics	1Y
04 Mar 2017	Championship	Blackburn 1:0 Latics	1Y
02 Jan 2017	Championship	Latics 0:1 Huddersfield	1Y
19 Nov 2016	Championship	Barnsley 0:0 Latics	2Y
26 Aug 2016	Championship	Latics 1:1 Birmingham	3Y

 

Jeremy Simpson Card Watch 2022/23

Games – 15

Yellows – 68

Reds – 0

Penalty Awards – 3

 

Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic
Referee – Jeremy Simpson
Assistants – James Wilson and Greg Read
Fourth Official – Tom Reeves

 

Grab a listen to the latest PWU Latics podcast featuring a preview of the Cardiff City game.