Darren England
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 59 of those matches and confirmed 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | 4 | 21.0 | 3.75 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | 23 | 22.0 | 4.57 | 0.13 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024-25 | 20 | 23.0 | 4.15 | 0.20 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023-24 | 12 | 22.3 | 4.92 | 0.08 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022-23 | 18 | 21.2 | 3.56 | 0.11 | —‡ | — |
| 2021-22 | 15 | 20.6 | 3.87 | 0.07 | —‡ | — |
| 2020-21 | 11 | 22.0 | 3.18 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2019-20 | 1 | 25.0 | 3.00 | 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 4.06 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 21.9 fouls a game.
Added time
6.9 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 7.2 from these fixtures — less than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Palace | 15 | 1–7–7 | 37 | 2.47 |
| Everton | 14 | 4–7–3 | 30 | 2.14 |
| Brentford | 14 | 6–1–7 | 30 | 2.14 |
| Brighton | 13 | 6–5–2 | 28 | 2.15 |
| Manchester City | 12 | 10–1–1 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Newcastle | 11 | 6–3–2 | 17 | 1.55 |
| Liverpool | 11 | 4–4–3 | 29 | 2.64 |
| Fulham | 9 | 3–1–5 | 22 | 2.44 |
| Aston Villa | 9 | 3–1–5 | 23 | 2.56 |
| West Ham | 9 | 3–2–4 | 13 | 1.44 |
| Arsenal | 9 | 6–1–2 | 11 | 1.22 |
| Nottingham Forest | 9 | 2–4–3 | 22 | 2.44 |
| Wolves | 8 | 4–0–4 | 17 | 2.12 |
| Leicester | 8 | 2–2–4 | 12 | 1.50 |
| Manchester United | 7 | 4–1–2 | 12 | 1.71 |
| Chelsea | 7 | 2–3–2 | 17 | 2.43 |
| Tottenham | 7 | 3–1–3 | 15 | 2.14 |
| Southampton | 6 | 1–2–3 | 5 | 0.83 |
| Leeds | 6 | 1–4–1 | 11 | 1.83 |
| Burnley | 5 | 1–2–2 | 17 | 3.40 |
| Bournemouth | 4 | 2–0–2 | 10 | 2.50 |
| Ipswich | 4 | 1–0–3 | 11 | 2.75 |
| Sunderland | 3 | 0–1–2 | 7 | 2.33 |
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 review
2026-27
2 of Darren England’s decisions were reviewed by the panel this season — 2 upheld, none ruled incorrect.
At VAR, the same 2 decisions: 2 correct, 0 incorrect. The VAR layer is a separate official’s work and is never attributed to the referee.
1 further decision in these matches was led by an assistant referee. The League names the role and not the official, so it is counted for the match and not against a referee.
- Hull v Manchester United · 74:35 — Penalty not awarded. Handball appeal against Mazraoui (MUN)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The Referee's call of no penalty for a potential handball offence against Mazraoui was supported. The ball was struck from close proximity with the defender's arms in an expected position given his blocking action.” - Ipswich v Liverpool · 44:56 — Penalty not awarded. Challenge by Fatawu (IPS) on Gakpo (LIV)
The panel upheld (4-1). “An unusual situation where some contact is made by Fatawu on Gakpo after the ball is laid off. The panel was split, 4:1, with the majority feeling that the contact was below the high threshold for a foul and they unanimously felt that this was not a clear and obvious error for VAR intervention.”
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2025-26 · Arsenal v Aston Villa · 58' — second-yellow error
- 2025-26 · Crystal Palace v Chelsea — VAR intervened wrongly
- 2025-26 · Arsenal v Chelsea — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Sunderland v Nottingham Forest — VAR intervened wrongly
- 2024-25 · Fulham v Aston Villa · 90' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Everton v Arsenal · 46' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2023-24 · Aston Villa v Crystal Palace · 93' — referee rejected a correct VAR recommendation
- 2023-24 · Chelsea v Burnley — VAR missed an on-field error