Michael Salisbury
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 43 of those matches and confirmed 15 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 | 2 | 23.0 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | 13 | 22.4 | 4.38 | 0.00 | 6 | 2 |
| 2024-25 | 14 | 21.7 | 3.14 | 0.21 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023-24 | 14 | 23.8 | 4.00 | 0.21 | 10 | 9 |
| 2022-23 | 15 | 23.3 | 4.33 | 0.13 | —‡ | — |
| 2021-22 | 3 | 23.3 | 4.00 | 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 3.92 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 22.9 fouls a game.
Added time
7.4 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 7.4 from these fixtures — about what those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth | 11 | 4–2–5 | 23 | 2.09 |
| Crystal Palace | 9 | 3–2–4 | 16 | 1.78 |
| Wolves | 8 | 2–1–5 | 18 | 2.25 |
| Southampton | 8 | 1–0–7 | 16 | 2.00 |
| West Ham | 7 | 3–2–2 | 14 | 2.00 |
| Aston Villa | 6 | 3–3–0 | 11 | 1.83 |
| Brentford | 6 | 3–2–1 | 12 | 2.00 |
| Brighton | 6 | 2–2–2 | 14 | 2.33 |
| Leeds | 6 | 2–1–3 | 12 | 2.00 |
| Newcastle | 6 | 3–2–1 | 10 | 1.67 |
| Fulham | 6 | 4–1–1 | 11 | 1.83 |
| Tottenham | 5 | 2–1–2 | 10 | 2.00 |
| Nottingham Forest | 5 | 1–1–3 | 10 | 2.00 |
| Ipswich | 5 | 0–0–5 | 12 | 2.40 |
| Leicester | 4 | 1–0–3 | 12 | 3.00 |
| Manchester United | 4 | 4–0–0 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Burnley | 3 | 1–0–2 | 4 | 1.33 |
| Manchester City | 3 | 3–0–0 | 8 | 2.67 |
| Everton | 3 | 3–0–0 | 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
The Key Match Incidents panel has not published a review of any decision from Michael Salisbury’s 2 matches in 2026-27 — and it reviews only a selected set, so that says nothing about whether those decisions were right.
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2025-26 · Wolves v Manchester United · 37' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2025-26 · Manchester United v Nottingham Forest — referee rejected a correct VAR recommendation
- 2024-25 · Manchester City v Ipswich · 42' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Everton v Wolves · 72' — VAR missed an on-field error; The offside attacker's actions clearly impact the defender's ability to challenge for or play the ball. The panel concluded that both the on-field decision (4:1) and the VAR's decision not to intervene (4:1) was incorrect.
- 2024-25 · Newcastle v Ipswich · 44' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Newcastle v Ipswich · 22' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2023-24 · Brighton v Fulham · 19' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Brighton v Nottingham Forest · 67' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Brighton v Chelsea · 46' — VAR missed an on-field error