Latics are at the DW Stadium this weekend for the visit of Norwich City in a Championship clash, taking charge of his first ever Wigan Athletic game will be West Midlands based official Oliver Langford.
The name ring a bell? Well Langford was the man in charge at Bloomfield Road when the infamous Paul Ince incident took place, the water bottle into the crowd, followed by Ince confronting the match officials, more so Langford’s 4th official that day Mark Pottage, in the tunnel after the final whistle, Ince was subsequently banned for five games, the first of which was against the Latics when the Blackpool supporters all wore Paul Ince masks, oh I remember it well!
Langford has been on the National List of referees since the 2008/09 season, he’s never refereed a Latics game, though he was fourth official when we met Bournemouth in an FA cup 3rd round replay down at Dean Court in January 2013 – erm wasn’t that the year we went on to win the damn thing…
So far this season Oliver Langford has been in charge of 14 games, five of which have been in the Championship
Oliver Langford Card Watch 2014/15
Games – 14
Yellows – 29
Reds – 2
Wigan Athletic v Norwich City
Referee – OLIVER LANGFORD
Assistants – Michael D’aguilar and Shaun Hudson
Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell
Oliver Langford, I knew his sister, she was Bonnie!
By permission of Bernard Platt/Wigan Athletic
