Anthony Taylor
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 89 of those matches and confirmed 12 errors in them. Everything below is a count: RefCard publishes errors, not an accuracy percentage, because no source publishes the denominator such a figure would need.
Season by season
| Season | Matches | Fouls/game | Yellows/game | Reds/game | Penalties | Confirmed errors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 31 | 20.5 | 3.94 | 0.06 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024-25 | 31 | 21.3 | 3.13 | 0.19 | 9 | 3 |
| 2023-24 | 27 | 21.3 | 4.93 | 0.15 | 11 | 5 |
| 2022-23 | 30 | 19.8 | 3.77 | 0.10 | —‡ | — |
| 2021-22 | 28 | 19.6 | 3.61 | 0.18 | —‡ | — |
| 2020-21 | 28 | 21.1 | 2.64 | 0.11 | —‡ | — |
| 2019-20 | 32 | 20.3 | 3.81 | 0.16 | —‡ | — |
| 2018-19 | 32 | 21.3 | 3.19 | 0.03 | —‡ | — |
| 2017-18 | 27 | 21.7 | 3.41 | 0.04 | —‡ | — |
| 2016-17 | 30 | 24.6 | 3.97 | 0.13 | —‡ | — |
| 2015-16 | 31 | 21.1 | 3.45 | 0.16 | —‡ | — |
| 2014-15 | 30 | 22.3 | 3.77 | 0.17 | —‡ | — |
| 2013-14 | 19 | 19.5 | 3.42 | 0.11 | —‡ | — |
| 2012-13 | 24 | 18.0 | 2.50 | 0.25 | —‡ | — |
| 2011-12 | 18 | 20.7 | 3.28 | 0.22 | —‡ | — |
| 2010-11 | 13 | 22.1 | 3.77 | 0.23 | —‡ | — |
| 2009-10 | 2 | 29.0 | 2.50 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
Confirmed errors are only available from 2023-24, when the Key Match Incidents panel began. Earlier seasons show the disciplinary record only. ‡ Penalties are recorded from 2023-24 onward; a dash means the figure was never collected for that season, not that none were given.
Cards and fouls
The career average is 3.54 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 21.0 fouls a game.
Added time
7.0 minutes of second-half added time on average, against a league median of 7.2. A model of each match's substitutions, cards and goals expects 7.3 from these fixtures — less than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 53 matches where we hold it — a shorter window than the figures above.
Club by club
Every club refereed at least three times, with that club's own record in those matches and the cards it took.
| Club | Matches | W–D–L | Yellows | Per game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 70 | 38–22–10 | 120 | 1.71 |
| Arsenal | 54 | 27–18–9 | 97 | 1.80 |
| Manchester United | 52 | 29–7–16 | 107 | 2.06 |
| Chelsea | 49 | 25–15–9 | 115 | 2.35 |
| Tottenham | 47 | 25–6–16 | 81 | 1.72 |
| Everton | 46 | 19–8–19 | 75 | 1.63 |
| Manchester City | 44 | 23–10–11 | 62 | 1.41 |
| West Ham | 41 | 17–5–19 | 68 | 1.66 |
| Newcastle | 35 | 15–4–16 | 56 | 1.60 |
| Aston Villa | 31 | 11–8–12 | 57 | 1.84 |
| Crystal Palace | 30 | 10–6–14 | 61 | 2.03 |
| Fulham | 28 | 6–6–16 | 32 | 1.14 |
| Leicester | 26 | 12–4–10 | 43 | 1.65 |
| Wolves | 25 | 6–3–16 | 34 | 1.36 |
| Southampton | 25 | 4–12–9 | 40 | 1.60 |
| Stoke | 22 | 6–5–11 | 48 | 2.18 |
| Burnley | 22 | 4–6–12 | 31 | 1.41 |
| Sunderland | 21 | 7–8–6 | 43 | 2.05 |
| West Brom | 20 | 4–8–8 | 28 | 1.40 |
| Bournemouth | 20 | 3–5–12 | 37 | 1.85 |
| Brighton | 20 | 5–10–5 | 39 | 1.95 |
| Norwich | 18 | 4–4–10 | 31 | 1.72 |
| Watford | 18 | 5–3–10 | 41 | 2.28 |
| Nottingham Forest | 15 | 3–2–10 | 36 | 2.40 |
| Leeds | 13 | 4–4–5 | 26 | 2.00 |
| Swansea | 11 | 3–2–6 | 18 | 1.64 |
| Brentford | 9 | 5–1–3 | 13 | 1.44 |
| QPR | 8 | 1–1–6 | 18 | 2.25 |
| Hull | 7 | 1–1–5 | 8 | 1.14 |
| Wigan | 6 | 2–2–2 | 13 | 2.17 |
| Huddersfield | 5 | 1–2–2 | 7 | 1.40 |
| Blackburn | 4 | 1–2–1 | 6 | 1.50 |
| Sheffield Utd | 4 | 0–2–2 | 9 | 2.25 |
| Birmingham | 3 | 2–1–0 | 5 | 1.67 |
| Blackpool | 3 | 1–0–2 | 6 | 2.00 |
| Cardiff | 3 | 0–1–2 | 6 | 2.00 |
| Middlesbrough | 3 | 0–1–2 | 8 | 2.67 |
The W–D–L is the club's. Nothing here is evidence of bias — a difference this size is what chance looks like. See how that was measured.
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2025-26 · Liverpool v Bournemouth · 13' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2025-26 · Sunderland v Brentford — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Manchester United v Manchester City · 11' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Manchester City v Arsenal · 83' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Southampton v Leicester · 69' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · West Ham v Liverpool · 35' — VAR missed an on-field error; The panel were split (3:2), with the majority deeming the on-field decision incorrect as 'he [Mac Allister] turns his back on the ball, his only motivation is to impede the attacker [Soler] and throws him to the floor.' The opposing view was that 'there's initial engagement from both players and it doesn't have a clear impact on play.'
- 2024-25 · Nottingham Forest v Southampton · 64' — VAR intervened wrongly; Wood comes from an offside position 'but doesn't impact any opponent's ability to play or challenge for the ball.' One panelist felt 'Wood impacts the ability of a defender; specifically their decision of which space to defend.'
- 2024-25 · Nottingham Forest v Chelsea · 79' — second-yellow error
- 2023-24 · Arsenal v Manchester United · 60' — VAR intervened wrongly
- 2023-24 · Wolves v Newcastle · 45' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Nottingham Forest v Newcastle · 62' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Everton v Nottingham Forest · 55' — VAR missed an on-field error