Lewis Smith
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 10 of those matches and confirmed 1 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 | 1 | 24.0 | 6.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-25 | 7 | 25.3 | 4.00 | 0.14 | 4 | 1 |
| 2023-24 | 2 | 19.5 | 5.50 | 0.50 | 1 | 0† |
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.
Cards and fouls
Not enough Premier League matches to publish a career card rate.
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 8.4 from these fixtures — less than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich | 3 | 0–2–1 | 9 | 3.00 |
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 · Aston Villa v Brentford · 25' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold