Simon Hooper
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 64 of those matches and confirmed 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 15 | 23.3 | 4.00 | 0.13 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-25 | 24 | 20.0 | 4.71 | 0.08 | 5 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | 25 | 22.4 | 4.60 | 0.12 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | 29 | 20.7 | 3.41 | 0.03 | —‡ | — |
| 2021-22 | 15 | 21.4 | 3.07 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2020-21 | 12 | 23.4 | 2.42 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2019-20 | 11 | 21.6 | 3.09 | 0.18 | —‡ | — |
| 2018-19 | 8 | 22.1 | 2.50 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2017-18 | 1 | 30.0 | 3.00 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2015-16 | 1 | 34.0 | 1.00 | 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 3.69 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 21.8 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 7.3 from these fixtures — about what 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 | 19 | 5–5–9 | 39 | 2.05 |
| Brighton | 17 | 4–9–4 | 32 | 1.88 |
| Crystal Palace | 16 | 6–4–6 | 30 | 1.88 |
| Wolves | 16 | 4–2–10 | 28 | 1.75 |
| Everton | 16 | 4–5–7 | 31 | 1.94 |
| Brentford | 15 | 5–6–4 | 35 | 2.33 |
| Liverpool | 14 | 9–1–4 | 24 | 1.71 |
| Aston Villa | 13 | 7–3–3 | 20 | 1.54 |
| Manchester City | 13 | 7–6–0 | 15 | 1.15 |
| Tottenham | 13 | 5–2–6 | 27 | 2.08 |
| Arsenal | 12 | 10–2–0 | 22 | 1.83 |
| West Ham | 11 | 4–4–3 | 13 | 1.18 |
| Nottingham Forest | 11 | 1–1–9 | 20 | 1.82 |
| Manchester United | 11 | 4–4–3 | 17 | 1.55 |
| Southampton | 9 | 1–5–3 | 22 | 2.44 |
| Bournemouth | 9 | 4–1–4 | 15 | 1.67 |
| Chelsea | 9 | 5–0–4 | 26 | 2.89 |
| Norwich | 8 | 0–2–6 | 6 | 0.75 |
| Watford | 8 | 2–2–4 | 18 | 2.25 |
| Leeds | 8 | 2–4–2 | 25 | 3.12 |
| Burnley | 7 | 2–4–1 | 14 | 2.00 |
| Leicester | 7 | 4–0–3 | 4 | 0.57 |
| Sheffield Utd | 7 | 4–0–3 | 13 | 1.86 |
| Fulham | 6 | 3–0–3 | 13 | 2.17 |
| West Brom | 3 | 1–0–2 | 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-confirmed errors
- 2025-26 · Chelsea v Brighton · 87' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Manchester United v Wolves · 90' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Tottenham v Liverpool — VAR missed an on-field error