Sam Barrott
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 65 of those matches and confirmed 14 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 | 19.3 | 3.33 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-26 | 24 | 19.3 | 3.71 | 0.04 | 7 | 5 |
| 2024-25 | 23 | 20.7 | 4.70 | 0.04 | 5 | 7 |
| 2023-24 | 15 | 20.1 | 3.13 | 0.07 | 3 | 1 |
Confirmed errors are only available from 2023-24, when the Key Match Incidents panel began. Earlier seasons show the disciplinary record only.
Cards and fouls
The career average is 3.91 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 20.0 fouls a game.
Added time
7.2 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 7.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Forest | 11 | 5–4–2 | 18 | 1.64 |
| Fulham | 8 | 2–2–4 | 14 | 1.75 |
| Arsenal | 8 | 8–0–0 | 10 | 1.25 |
| Aston Villa | 8 | 4–1–3 | 11 | 1.38 |
| Brentford | 8 | 5–1–2 | 14 | 1.75 |
| Crystal Palace | 7 | 3–2–2 | 17 | 2.43 |
| Everton | 7 | 2–1–4 | 15 | 2.14 |
| Brighton | 7 | 2–3–2 | 13 | 1.86 |
| Bournemouth | 6 | 3–3–0 | 12 | 2.00 |
| Burnley | 6 | 0–0–6 | 15 | 2.50 |
| West Ham | 6 | 1–3–2 | 20 | 3.33 |
| Tottenham | 6 | 2–1–3 | 17 | 2.83 |
| Newcastle | 5 | 3–1–1 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Manchester United | 5 | 3–1–1 | 8 | 1.60 |
| Manchester City | 4 | 2–0–2 | 9 | 2.25 |
| Chelsea | 4 | 1–1–2 | 6 | 1.50 |
| Liverpool | 4 | 3–1–0 | 12 | 3.00 |
| Sheffield Utd | 3 | 0–0–3 | 4 | 1.33 |
| Wolves | 3 | 1–2–0 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Southampton | 3 | 0–0–3 | 7 | 2.33 |
| Ipswich | 3 | 0–1–2 | 5 | 1.67 |
| Leicester | 3 | 0–0–3 | 10 | 3.33 |
| Sunderland | 3 | 0–1–2 | 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
2026-27
The panel reviewed one of Sam Barrott’s decisions this season, and it was ruled incorrect.
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.
3 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.
- Liverpool v Nottingham Forest · 67:43 — Penalty awarded. Challenge by Alisson (LIV) on Williams (NFO)
The panel ruled incorrect (2-3, narrow). “The panel felt that the referee's call of a penalty was incorrect on-field, 3:2. The contact from Allison was inevitable as a consequence of his momentum in attempting to save the ball - the contact made was not reckless and below the threshold for a penalty. However, the non- intervention by the VAR was unanimously supported on the basis that it was not a clear and obvious error.”
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2026-27 · Liverpool v Nottingham Forest · 68' — on_field; The panel felt that the referee's call of a penalty was incorrect on-field, 3:2. The contact from Allison was inevitable as a consequence of his momentum in attempting to save the ball - the contact made was not reckless and below the threshold for a penalty. However, the non- intervention by the VAR was unanimously supported on the basis that it was not a clear and obvious error.
- 2025-26 · Newcastle v Manchester City · 17' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2025-26 · Fulham v Crystal Palace — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2025-26 · Everton v Arsenal — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2025-26 · Chelsea v Bournemouth · 54' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2025-26 · Everton v Chelsea — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Brentford v Crystal Palace · 26' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · West Ham v Chelsea · 28' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa · 34' — VAR missed an on-field error; Anderson grabs hold of Rogers outside of the area but this continues inside. The holding offense is clear.
- 2024-25 · Liverpool v Everton · 11' — VAR missed an on-field error; The clear dangerous nature of the challenge is not mitigated by Tarkowski winning the ball first. A clear example of endangering the safety of an opponent.
- 2024-25 · Crystal Palace v Bournemouth · 67' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Wolves v Leicester · 70' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Ipswich v Brentford · 35' — VAR missed an on-field error; Tuanzebe is not looking at the ball, Collins tries to break free and Tuanzebe holds him with both arms and impacts his movement. The holding was not mutual.