Darren Bond
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 19 of those matches and confirmed 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14 | 22.3 | 3.93 | 0.07 | 5 | 3 |
| 2023-24 | 5 | 20.8 | 4.80 | 0.40 | 2 | 0† |
| 2022-23 | 4 | 19.8 | 4.00 | 0.25 | —‡ | — |
Confirmed errors are only available from 2023-24, when the Key Match Incidents panel began. Earlier seasons show the disciplinary record only. † Below-threshold errors were not published for referees under 10 games in 2023-24, so that season counts VAR-layer errors only — which are complete. It is not a measured zero. ‡ 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 4.13 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 21.5 fouls a game.
Added time
7.5 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 7.7 from these fixtures — about what those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester | 7 | 1–2–4 | 17 | 2.43 |
| Fulham | 6 | 2–3–1 | 16 | 2.67 |
| Brentford | 6 | 3–1–2 | 11 | 1.83 |
| Southampton | 4 | 0–0–4 | 7 | 1.75 |
| Bournemouth | 3 | 0–0–3 | 6 | 2.00 |
| Brighton | 3 | 2–1–0 | 3 | 1.00 |
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
- 2024-25 · Tottenham v Fulham · 60' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Everton v Leicester · 34' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Brighton v Leicester · 19' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold