Peter Bankes
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 58 of those matches and confirmed 11 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 | 3 | 20.3 | 3.67 | 0.33 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-26 | 22 | 22.4 | 4.00 | 0.18 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024-25 | 23 | 20.1 | 3.91 | 0.13 | 6 | 3 |
| 2023-24 | 10 | 21.3 | 5.10 | 0.10 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022-23 | 21 | 23.0 | 4.33 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2021-22 | 12 | 20.8 | 4.50 | 0.08 | —‡ | — |
| 2020-21 | 16 | 20.8 | 3.06 | 0.25 | —‡ | — |
| 2019-20 | 11 | 23.1 | 3.73 | 0.09 | —‡ | — |
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 4.03 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 21.6 fouls a game.
Added time
7.1 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 6.9 from these fixtures — about what those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle | 19 | 6–6–7 | 39 | 2.05 |
| Wolves | 17 | 7–4–6 | 35 | 2.06 |
| Brentford | 16 | 4–4–8 | 29 | 1.81 |
| Aston Villa | 14 | 7–2–5 | 26 | 1.86 |
| Brighton | 13 | 6–2–5 | 31 | 2.38 |
| Tottenham | 12 | 3–3–6 | 27 | 2.25 |
| Chelsea | 12 | 6–3–3 | 30 | 2.50 |
| West Ham | 12 | 3–6–3 | 22 | 1.83 |
| Fulham | 11 | 6–1–4 | 30 | 2.73 |
| Manchester United | 11 | 3–2–6 | 21 | 1.91 |
| Leeds | 11 | 3–2–6 | 21 | 1.91 |
| Bournemouth | 10 | 5–3–2 | 20 | 2.00 |
| Southampton | 10 | 4–3–3 | 14 | 1.40 |
| Arsenal | 10 | 7–1–2 | 12 | 1.20 |
| Manchester City | 10 | 5–1–4 | 18 | 1.80 |
| Sheffield Utd | 9 | 2–2–5 | 22 | 2.44 |
| Nottingham Forest | 9 | 5–1–3 | 19 | 2.11 |
| Crystal Palace | 8 | 4–1–3 | 15 | 1.88 |
| Burnley | 7 | 1–3–3 | 8 | 1.14 |
| Leicester | 5 | 4–0–1 | 6 | 1.20 |
| Norwich | 3 | 0–1–2 | 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 review
2026-27
6 of Peter Bankes’s decisions were reviewed by the panel this season — 4 upheld, 2 ruled incorrect.
At VAR, the same 6 decisions: 6 correct, 0 incorrect. The VAR overturned 1 of them. The VAR layer is a separate official’s work and is never attributed to the referee.
4 further decisions in these matches were led by an assistant referee. The League names the role and not the official, so they are counted for the match and not against a referee.
- Brighton v Aston Villa · 30:32 — KMI Goal awarded. Challenge by Ayari (BHA) on Gomes (AVL)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The panel felt that the challenge did not meet the high threshold for a foul, therefore, the Referee's call to award the goal was supported.” - Brighton v Aston Villa · 37:20 — Sending off dismissal not given. Actions of Gomes (AVL) on Rutter (BHA)
The panel ruled incorrect (0-5). “The VAR intervention to award a red card for violent conduct was unanimously supported. Gomes kicked out at Rutter after the ball had gone.” - Brighton v Aston Villa · 53:37 — Penalty not awarded. Handball appeal against Torres (AVL)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The Referee's call of no penalty for a potential handball offence against Torres was supported. His arms were in an expected position when aerially challenging for the ball.” - Brighton v Aston Villa · 78:53 — Penalty not awarded. Challenge by McGinn (AVL) on Osman (BHA)
The panel ruled incorrect (1-4). “The panel were split, 4:1, with the majority feeling that a penalty should have been awarded on- field. McGinn steps into challenge Osman and makes contact without playing the ball. Whilst the majority of the panel preferred the outcome to be a penalty, with the high threshold for VAR intervention, the majority, 3:2, felt that it was not a clear and obvious error.” - Tottenham v Newcastle · 46:44 — Penalty not awarded. Challenge by Thiaw (NEW) on Marmoush (TOT)
The panel upheld (4-1). “The referee's call of no penalty was supported, 4:1. There was a genuine challenge for the ball by Thiaw with some contact made with Marmoush, but this was below the threshold for a penalty kick.” - Tottenham v Newcastle · 84:20 — Penalty not awarded. Handball appeal against Botman (NEW)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The referee's call of no penalty for a potential handball offence against Botman was supported. The ball strikes his arm, by his side, in an expected position.”
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2026-27 · Brighton v Aston Villa · 38' — corrected; The VAR intervention to award a red card for violent conduct was unanimously supported. Gomes kicked out at Rutter after the ball had gone.
- 2026-27 · Brighton v Aston Villa · 79' — on_field; The panel were split, 4:1, with the majority feeling that a penalty should have been awarded on- field. McGinn steps into challenge Osman and makes contact without playing the ball. Whilst the majority of the panel preferred the outcome to be a penalty, with the high threshold for VAR intervention, the majority, 3:2, felt that it was not a clear and obvious error.
- 2025-26 · Manchester City v Tottenham — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Wolves v West Ham · 73' — VAR missed an on-field error; an extreme non-footballing action which had impact, without looking at the ball.
- 2025-26 · Aston Villa v Brighton — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Newcastle v Manchester United · 45' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Chelsea v Brentford · 22' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Wolves v Nottingham Forest · 33' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Aston Villa v West Ham · 86' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Bournemouth v Manchester United · 68' — VAR intervened wrongly; Evanilson slips and Mazraoui is turning into the challenge which makes it look much worse' and there was 'no evidence of the referee's call being a clear and obvious error.