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Anthony Backhouse has a referee profile on FootSam that collects registered matches and competitions. The match history shows which teams met in the matches where the referee has a documented assignment. The season sections make it possible to follow how the assignments are distributed over time. Card statistics and other referee figures are shown in relation to the matches included in the records.
You can open a match to see its results, events and possibly the referee team. The competition connections show in which leagues the referee appears in FootSam's data. The profile thus provides a path from a single referee effort to a larger match history.
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EnglandReferee2016–2026Results and referee statistics · All competitions
Data coverage: cards in 207 of 258 matches, fouls in 208, penalties in 197. Averages use only known data.
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801 cards in 207 matches
The first yellow card is shown, on average, in minute 34 (median 33), based on the 202 matches where a yellow card was shown.
yellows reds· cards per 15-minute period · scale 0–262
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15 of 230 matches were top clashes
He receives roughly as many top clashes as an even allocation in his own league seasons would produce. The difference is within what chance can explain.
| Match | Date | Cards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough1–2MillwallChampionship | 3 Apr 2026 | 2 | Open |
| Coventry0–2IpswichChampionship | 29 Dec 2025 | 3 | Open |
| Hull City3–1SouthamptonChampionship | 20 Sept 2025 | 8 | Open |
| Burnley0–0SunderlandChampionship | 17 Jan 2025 | 5 | Open |
| Burnley2–0CoventryChampionship | 26 Nov 2024 | 1 | Open |
| Leyton Orient1–2BirminghamLeague One | 24 Aug 2024 | 4 | Open |
| Bolton1–1PortsmouthLeague One | 13 Apr 2024 | 4 | Open |
| Barnsley1–3PeterboroughLeague One | 15 Aug 2023 | 1 | Open |
| Peterborough4–0Sheffield WednesdayLeague One | 12 May 2023 | 4 | Open |
| Sheffield Wednesday1–0PeterboroughLeague One | 4 Mar 2023 | 4 | Open |
3.87 cards per game — 5% above the average in the same leagues and seasons. More likely to issue cards than 66 % of the 1,564 referees we can compare with.
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Scale 0–100 · league-adjusted percentile. Each metric shows the referee's average per game.
