Sunderland (a): Former Champions League Assistant Referee Appointed

The Football League has now announced the officials that will take charge of the match between Sunderland and Lincoln City in League One.

Sunderland host Lincoln City on Tuesday, January 11 for the match at the Stadium of Light, and the match carries a 19:45 kick-off.

Referee: Jeremy Simpson.
Assistants Refs: James Wilson and Geoffrey Liddle.
Fourth Official: Simon Mather.

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From efl.com: “Simpson is a former international assistant referee, who officiated in many Champions League matches and other international fixtures. He opted for a career with the whistle after refereeing the 2012 National League Play-Off Final between York City and Luton Town. He was then appointed to the EFL Referees List in 2012/13 and in his five years on the list has refereed over 100 matches.”

Jeremy Simpson has been the man in the middle for 3 matches involving Lincoln City:

03/04/12: Lincoln City 0-1 Cambridge United (Conference) – 1 yellow card
16/02/19: Lincoln City 2-2 Stevenage (League Two) – 5 yellow cards
10/10/20: Lincoln City 1-2 Bristol Rovers (League One) – 4 yellow cards and 1 red card

TOTALS: Matches: 3 — Yellow Cards: 10 — Red Cards: 1

He received an average rating of 4.71 following the 2-1 defeat at home against Bristol Rovers in October 2020. Some of the comments can be found below:

plumbob: “I’m going 5/10.

Probably in the minority here, but I thought he got both penalty shouts right.

Absolutely no arguing with theirs. For ours, I thought our man initiated the contact by slowing to a near stop, and thrusting his arse back to the defender. Not so many years ago, nobody would have batted an eyelid at the decision. Only in today’s sterile nigh on non-contact game do we think that’s cast iron.

However, easy red card aside, I thought he made an awful lot of poor decisions. To play-on or not to play-on that is the question. Felt the majority of 50/50 calls went their way, and overall he was way too whistle-heavy.

Chesterimp: “4.

Fussy, good use of advantage most of the time but some inconsistencies.

Thought penalty shout for McGrandles should have been given, got to the ball in front of the defender, as Thommo the said, why would he go down?”

Eweimps: “I thought he had a poor game. Their penalty probably inside, ours should have been given, played a good advantage first half but failed to card their player afterwards and then failed to play an advantage when we were away, though did correctly give us a free-kick after trying to play on where no advantage materialised, inconsistencies with making players leave the pitch after injury ( stupid rule anyway when it’s an obvious injury) and also gave several soft free-kicks to them but failed to give more obvious ones to us. He probably affected the result therefore I’m struggling to give him more than a three. 3/10.”

Jeremy Simpson: 2021/22 Stats:

11/09/21: Salford City 1-0 Bradford City (League Two) – 4 yellow cards
15/09/21: Bristol City 1-1 Luton Town (Championship) – 3 yellow cards
18/09/21: Derby County 2-1 Stoke City (Championship) – 5 yellow cards
25/09/21: Nottingham Forest 1-1 Millwall (Championship) – 5 yellow cards
28/09/21: Huddersfield Town 3-2 Blackburn Rovers (Championship) – 2 yellow cards
02/10/21: Queens Park Rangers 3-2 Preston North End (Championship) – 1 yellow card
15/10/21: West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Birmingham City (Championship) – 3 yellow cards
20/10/21: Reading 2-3 Blackpool (Championship) – 3 yellow cards
23/10/21: Cardiff City 0-2 Middlesbrough (Championship) – 4 yellow cards
06/11/21: Coventry City 3-2 Bristol City (Championship) – 4 yellow cards and 1 red card
23/11/21: Nottingham Forest 0-0 Luton Town (Championship) – 6 yellow cards and 1 red card
29/11/21: Derby County 1-2 Queens Park Rangers (Championship) – 1 yellow card
04/12/21: Sunderland 1-1 Oxford United (League One) – 5 yellow cards
11/12/21: Birmingham City 2-2 Cardiff City (Championship) – 4 yellow cards
26/12/21: Huddersfield Town 3-2 Blackpool (Championship) – 3 yellow cards and 1 red card
03/01/22: Stoke City 1-2 Preston North End (Championship) – 5 yellow cards
08/01/22: Yeovil Town 1-3 AFC Bournemouth (FA Cup) – 6 yellow cards

TOTALS: Matches: 17 — Yellow Cards: 64 — Red Cards: 3

Jeremy Simpson was the man in the middle for 29 matches last season. In those matches, he showed 78 yellow cards and 4 red cards.

He showed 6 yellow cards and 2 red cards in the Championship encounter between Sheffield Wednesday and AFC Bournemouth, which finished 1-0 to the hosts.

Simpson oversaw 29 matches during the 2019/20 season, showing a total of 100 yellow cards and 8 red cards.

He brandished his yellow card on 8 occasions during the Fulham v Bristol City (1-2) match in the Championship.

Sources: English Football League & Soccer Base.

Have a go at our Lincoln City versus Sunderland Quizzes, published last season (they were all correct at the time they were published). The first quiz can be found below, and the links to the other four can be found HERE: Quiz No.2, Quiz No.3 & Quiz No.4.

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