Phil Dowd
The Key Match Incidents panel began in 2023-24, after this career, so none of these matches were reviewed by it — there is no error record to show, which is not the same as a clean one. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | 21 | 25.1 | 4.38 | 0.19 | —‡ | — |
| 2013-14 | 26 | 23.5 | 4.42 | 0.27 | —‡ | — |
| 2012-13 | 25 | 19.5 | 3.04 | 0.16 | —‡ | — |
| 2011-12 | 28 | 21.4 | 3.75 | 0.11 | —‡ | — |
| 2010-11 | 30 | 24.3 | 3.70 | 0.30 | —‡ | — |
| 2009-10 | 29 | 25.7 | 3.00 | 0.17 | —‡ | — |
| 2008-09 | 29 | 25.4 | 3.17 | 0.21 | —‡ | — |
| 2007-08 | 22 | 23.4 | 3.09 | 0.32 | —‡ | — |
| 2006-07 | 17 | 28.0 | 3.00 | 0.12 | —‡ | — |
| 2005-06 | 23 | 31.3 | 4.39 | 0.30 | —‡ | — |
| 2004-05 | 20 | 29.6 | 3.10 | 0.35 | —‡ | — |
| 2003-04 | 17 | 28.8 | 3.71 | 0.12 | —‡ | — |
| 2002-03 | 14 | 28.6 | 3.00 | 0.14 | —‡ | — |
| 2001-02 | 5 | 33.6 | 4.20 | 0.40 | —‡ | — |
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 3.55 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 25.5 fouls a game.
Added time
No second-half added-time record held for this referee yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 41 | 20–11–10 | 69 | 1.68 |
| Everton | 37 | 15–10–12 | 59 | 1.59 |
| Tottenham | 33 | 19–5–9 | 56 | 1.70 |
| Chelsea | 32 | 21–6–5 | 50 | 1.56 |
| Sunderland | 31 | 6–7–18 | 73 | 2.35 |
| Manchester City | 31 | 14–7–10 | 59 | 1.90 |
| Bolton | 30 | 12–8–10 | 55 | 1.83 |
| Newcastle | 29 | 9–8–12 | 47 | 1.62 |
| Manchester United | 28 | 14–5–9 | 51 | 1.82 |
| West Ham | 26 | 5–8–13 | 51 | 1.96 |
| Fulham | 25 | 8–7–10 | 51 | 2.04 |
| Aston Villa | 25 | 5–8–12 | 42 | 1.68 |
| Arsenal | 25 | 13–8–4 | 45 | 1.80 |
| Blackburn | 23 | 11–5–7 | 46 | 2.00 |
| Wigan | 22 | 9–9–4 | 41 | 1.86 |
| Birmingham | 18 | 7–2–9 | 22 | 1.22 |
| West Brom | 17 | 7–3–7 | 33 | 1.94 |
| Middlesbrough | 15 | 4–5–6 | 23 | 1.53 |
| Portsmouth | 15 | 7–2–6 | 28 | 1.87 |
| Southampton | 13 | 3–6–4 | 20 | 1.54 |
| Charlton | 13 | 4–2–7 | 19 | 1.46 |
| Swansea | 12 | 2–7–3 | 22 | 1.83 |
| Hull | 10 | 1–3–6 | 16 | 1.60 |
| Wolves | 9 | 3–0–6 | 22 | 2.44 |
| Crystal Palace | 8 | 3–0–5 | 16 | 2.00 |
| Norwich | 8 | 2–2–4 | 13 | 1.62 |
| QPR | 8 | 0–4–4 | 11 | 1.38 |
| Burnley | 7 | 1–2–4 | 11 | 1.57 |
| Leicester | 5 | 1–3–1 | 11 | 2.20 |
| Reading | 4 | 1–0–3 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Cardiff | 3 | 0–0–3 | 8 | 2.67 |
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.