Simon Hooper
Simon Hooper has not taken charge of a Premier League match in 26/27. The figures below are a career record. Over the last 10 Premier League games Simon Hooper has officiated, the average is 3.00 cards a match — 26% below the league average of 4.08. That's 3.0 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.8 to 1.2 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 14.9% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come less often than most: 14 awarded in 93 matches, 0.15 a game against a league average of 0.25. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Simon Hooper turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Premier League season on record.
| Measure | Hooper | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.28 | 4.08 |
| vs league | 1.05× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 20.0% | 18.6% |
| Fouls / match | 21.4 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.15 | 0.25 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 14 in 93 | — |
| Red cards shown | 8 | — |
| Matches on record | 93 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Premier League games Simon Hooper took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Ham v Man Utd10 Feb | 1–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Liverpool v Newcastle31 Jan | 4–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Everton v Leeds26 Jan | 1–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest3 Jan | 3–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Liverpool v Wolves27 Dec | 2–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Man Utd v Bournemouth15 Dec | 4–4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Brighton v West Ham7 Dec | 1–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Brentford v Liverpool25 Oct | 3–2 | 5 1 pen | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Simon Hooper give per game?
Simon Hooper averages 4.28 cards a game across 93 Premier League matches — 5% above the league average of 4.08. On a Simon Hooper appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.05.
Is Simon Hooper a strict referee?
Slightly, yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Simon Hooper runs at 20.0% against a league average of 18.6%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Simon Hooper's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Simon Hooper's card rate?
It rests on 93 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.