Meet The Ref - Latics v Charlton

Latics play their third game in seven days at the DW Stadium on Tuesday evening, Charlton Athletic are the visitors for a League One clash, the referee for the match will be London based official, Paul Howard.

 

Paul Howard

This is Paul Howards 4^th season on the National List, he has refereed a total of 99 games since being promoted, issuing a modest 273 yellow cards and 12 reds, awarding 24 penalties.

An interesting fact, well two actually, Paul Howard has only once issued a red card in a League 1 game. 

Howard has also taken charge of a Scottish Challenge Cup tie between League of Ireland club Waterford and Hearts FC B side, Waterford winning 1:0 and just 1 yellow card issued.

 Previous Games

Paul Howard has taken charge of three Latics games previously, two in the 20/21 season, our home defeat to Oxford in November 2020 and the away draw at AFC Wimbledon in the middle of March, and once in 2022, a goalless draw away at Cheltenham where he produced that solitary League One red card to Cheltenham defender, Ben Williams, we have yet to win a game that he has been in charge of.

Paul Howard was in charge of two Charlton games last season, their EFL Trophy 2:1 home win v Brighton U21s in November 2022 and in February this year a defeat away at Derby 2:0.

Paul Howard Latics Games

Date	Competition	Result	Latics Cards
29 Jan 2022	League One	Cheltenham 0:0 Latics	2Y
16 Mar 2021	League One	Wimbledon 1:1 Latics	0
21 Nov 2020	League One	Latics 1:2 Oxford United	2Y

 

Paul Howard Card Watch 2023/24

Games – 10

Yellows – 35

Reds – 1

Penalty Awards – 0

Wigan Athletic v Charlton Athletic
Referee – Paul Howard
Assistants – Mark Jones and Steve Ward
Fourth Official – Jamie O’Connor

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