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Martin Atkinson

1971 - Today

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Martin Atkinson (born 31 March 1971) is an English referee coach and retired professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League. He is a member of the West Riding County Football Association.Atkinson made his first appearance as an official in the Football League as an assistant referee in 1995. Since he was promoted to the list of Select Group Referees in 2004 he refereed a number of notable matches, including the FA Community Shield and the finals of the FA Trophy, Football League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Europa League. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Atkinson has received more than 599,988 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Martin Atkinson is the 88th most popular referee (down from 56th in 2019), the 6,227th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,283rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Martin Atkinsons by language

Over the past year Martin Atkinson has had the most page views in the with 29,035 views, followed by Russian (4,009), and Chinese (1,956). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (66.24%), Mingrelian (14.03%), and Estonian (−3.07%)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Martin Atkinson ranks 88 out of 147. Before him are Deniz Aytekin, Carlos del Cerro Grande, Michael Hester, Pablo Pozo, Ryuji Sato, and Michael Oliver. After him are Carlos Amarilla, Kateryna Monzul, Abdulrahman Al-Jassim, Sergei Karasev, Peter O'Leary, and Peter Fröjdfeldt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Martin Atkinson ranks 553. Before him are Joost van der Westhuizen, Rachel Luttrell, Bas van de Goor, Niki Karimi, Fernando Meligeni, and Jiří Šlégr. After him are Inesu Emiko Takeoka, Gretchen Whitmer, Tiffany Darwish, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Miguel Calero, and Mary Joe Fernández.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Atkinson ranks 6,227 out of 8,785. Before him are Raymond Keene (1948), Penny Mordaunt (1973), Jim Crawford (1948), Ronnie Corbett (1930), Dario Franchitti (1973), and Maggie O'Farrell (1972). After him are Stuart Bingham (1976), Lalla Ward (1951), Roma Downey (1960), Anoushka Shankar (1981), Chris Coleman (1970), and Brian McClair (1963).

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Among REFEREES In United Kingdom

Among referees born in United Kingdom, Martin Atkinson ranks 6. Before him are Jack Taylor (1930), Howard Webb (1971), Graham Poll (1963), Anthony Taylor (1978), and Michael Oliver (1985). After him are Hugh Dallas (1957), Michaela Tabb (1967), Mike Dean (1968), Mark Clattenburg (1975), Craig Thomson (1972), and Willie Collum (1979).

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