Robert Jones
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 65 of those matches and confirmed 19 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 | 31.0 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | 18 | 21.1 | 4.17 | 0.00 | 5 | 7 |
| 2024-25 | 22 | 24.8 | 4.50 | 0.18 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | 23.1 | 4.68 | 0.23 | 5 | 6 |
| 2022-23 | 26 | 22.8 | 4.04 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2021-22 | 12 | 20.6 | 2.75 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2020-21 | 9 | 21.4 | 2.33 | 0.22 | —‡ | — |
| 2019-20 | 1 | 17.0 | 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 3.97 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 22.8 fouls a game.
Added time
7.8 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 7.3 from these fixtures — more than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 37 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 | 17 | 9–3–5 | 32 | 1.88 |
| Brighton | 15 | 4–6–5 | 26 | 1.73 |
| Fulham | 14 | 3–2–9 | 30 | 2.14 |
| Aston Villa | 14 | 4–3–7 | 19 | 1.36 |
| Wolves | 13 | 5–2–6 | 28 | 2.15 |
| Tottenham | 13 | 3–3–7 | 32 | 2.46 |
| Crystal Palace | 13 | 3–3–7 | 24 | 1.85 |
| Leicester | 12 | 6–2–4 | 22 | 1.83 |
| Chelsea | 11 | 4–4–3 | 23 | 2.09 |
| Manchester City | 11 | 9–2–0 | 18 | 1.64 |
| Manchester United | 11 | 6–3–2 | 30 | 2.73 |
| Leeds | 9 | 4–2–3 | 19 | 2.11 |
| Southampton | 9 | 1–5–3 | 13 | 1.44 |
| Nottingham Forest | 9 | 2–2–5 | 29 | 3.22 |
| Bournemouth | 9 | 3–4–2 | 20 | 2.22 |
| West Ham | 8 | 4–1–3 | 10 | 1.25 |
| Arsenal | 7 | 4–2–1 | 9 | 1.29 |
| Sheffield Utd | 6 | 3–1–2 | 14 | 2.33 |
| Brentford | 6 | 1–2–3 | 14 | 2.33 |
| Sunderland | 5 | 4–0–1 | 7 | 1.40 |
| Burnley | 4 | 0–1–3 | 11 | 2.75 |
| Norwich | 3 | 0–0–3 | 4 | 1.33 |
| Watford | 3 | 2–0–1 | 3 | 1.00 |
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
The panel reviewed one of Robert Jones’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.
1 further decision in these matches was led by an assistant referee. The League names the role and not the official, so it is counted for the match and not against a referee.
- Nottingham Forest v Leeds · 16:42 — Sending off dismissal not given. Challenge by Aina (NFO) on Justin (LDS)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The panel unanimously supported the Referee's call of a yellow card for a reckless challenge on the basis that Aina's challenge was low and made minimal contact with his leading leg - lacking the force and intensity to be serious foul play.”
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2025-26 · Chelsea v Fulham — VAR intervened wrongly; Muniz has possession and Chalobah tries to step in to win the ball. This contact is normal in the context of the skill Muniz was performing.
- 2025-26 · Bournemouth v Newcastle · 81' — second-yellow error
- 2025-26 · Tottenham v Brentford · 31' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Nottingham Forest v Manchester City · 46' — second-yellow error
- 2025-26 · Tottenham v Manchester City · 92' — second-yellow error
- 2025-26 · Chelsea v Leeds — second-yellow error
- 2025-26 · Sunderland v Tottenham · 63' — second-yellow error
- 2025-26 · Bournemouth v Crystal Palace — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2024-25 · Brighton v Nottingham Forest · 82' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Bournemouth v Arsenal · 76' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Crystal Palace v Manchester City · 84' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · West Ham v Brighton · 84' — VAR missed an on-field error; The action of Estupinian has speed, force, intensity and endangers the safety of the opponent.
- 2024-25 · Fulham v Bournemouth · 32' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Aston Villa v Ipswich · 41' — second-yellow error
- 2023-24 · Nottingham Forest v Burnley · 76' — VAR intervened wrongly
- 2023-24 · Sheffield Utd v Wolves · 97' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Sheffield Utd v Chelsea · 58' — VAR missed an on-field error