Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Meet The Ref - Peterborough United v Latics


Latics travel down to Cambridgeshire on Saturday to face Peterborough United at London Road in a League One fixture, the referee for the game is scheduled to be Berkshire official, Steve Parkinson.


Steve Parkinson started refereeing in the Bracknell Sunday League as a 16 year old and worked his way up through the ranks of the local leagues, the Welsh Leagues and onto the National League by 2023, making his debut in the EFL in January 2024 with the Crewe v Salford game at Gresty Rd.

Last season Parkinson had 10 EFL league games, including one in League One, Lincoln’s 1:1 home draw with Shrewsbury back in April this year.

Previous Games

Saturday will be Steve Parkinson’s third time in charge of a Latics match this season, he previously officiated our home League One encounter with Saturday’s opponents, Peterborough United back in August, we won that comfortably enough with Chris Saydee and Jason Kerr on the score sheet in a 2:0 win, Ryan Trevitt picking up a yellow card.

Exeter away in November was the other of Parky’s Latics’ games, that ended all square, one apiece with Callum Wright on the scoresheet, Matt Smith ended up in the notebook and we had a Chris Saydee goal very dubiously disallowed for handball.

Peterborough have just the early season encounter with us as their only previous Steve Parkinson game.

Steve Parkinson’s Latics Game

Date

Competition

Result

Latics Cards

08 Nov 2025

League One

Exeter City 1:1 Latics

1Y

16 Aug 2025

League One

Latics 2:0 Peterborough

1Y

Steve Parkinson Card Watch 2025/26

Games – 25

Yellows – 87

Reds – 3

Penalties – 6

Peterborough United v Wigan Athletic

Referee – Steve Parkinson

Assistants – Jonathon Block & Alan Cresswell

4th Official – Alan Dale

Grab a listen to the latest podcast featuring a preview of the Peterborough game.

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