Josh Smith
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 8 of those matches and confirmed 0 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 | 1 | 19.0 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-25 | 3 | 19.7 | 4.33 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | 4 | 23.2 | 4.25 | 0.50 | 1 | 0† |
| 2022-23 | 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. † 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
Not enough Premier League matches to publish a career card rate.
Added time
10.0 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 9.4 from these fixtures — more than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulham | 4 | 3–1–0 | 11 | 2.75 |
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
The panel reviewed one of Josh Smith’s decisions this season, and it was upheld.
At VAR, the same 1 decision: 1 correct, 0 incorrect. The VAR layer is a separate official’s work and is never attributed to the referee.
- Coventry v Hull · 23:01 — Penalty not awarded. Challenge by Thomas (COV) on Stroud (HUL)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The referee's call of no penalty was supported, with the contact not meeting the threshold for a penalty kick.”