Thomas Bramall
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 47 of those matches and confirmed 9 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 | 23.3 | 2.67 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | 22 | 21.6 | 4.14 | 0.09 | 5 | 2 |
| 2024-25 | 11 | 20.4 | 3.45 | 0.36 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023-24 | 11 | 24.6 | 5.27 | 0.27 | 2 | 5 |
| 2022-23 | 8 | 24.4 | 3.00 | 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 3.98 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 22.4 fouls a game.
Added time
6.7 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 7.0 from these fixtures — less than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Palace | 11 | 4–5–2 | 18 | 1.64 |
| Bournemouth | 8 | 2–4–2 | 23 | 2.88 |
| Wolves | 8 | 4–2–2 | 18 | 2.25 |
| Fulham | 7 | 4–2–1 | 9 | 1.29 |
| Newcastle | 7 | 2–2–3 | 16 | 2.29 |
| Nottingham Forest | 6 | 2–2–2 | 11 | 1.83 |
| Brighton | 5 | 1–2–2 | 10 | 2.00 |
| Southampton | 5 | 0–0–5 | 13 | 2.60 |
| Burnley | 5 | 0–2–3 | 9 | 1.80 |
| West Ham | 5 | 1–1–3 | 17 | 3.40 |
| Everton | 5 | 0–3–2 | 9 | 1.80 |
| Aston Villa | 4 | 2–1–1 | 9 | 2.25 |
| Liverpool | 4 | 2–1–1 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Tottenham | 4 | 1–1–2 | 10 | 2.50 |
| Sunderland | 4 | 0–3–1 | 10 | 2.50 |
| Leeds | 4 | 2–1–1 | 10 | 2.50 |
| Brentford | 3 | 1–2–0 | 6 | 2.00 |
| Leicester | 3 | 0–1–2 | 5 | 1.67 |
| Manchester United | 3 | 2–1–0 | 2 | 0.67 |
| Manchester City | 3 | 2–1–0 | 4 | 1.33 |
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
2 of Thomas Bramall’s decisions were reviewed by the panel this season — 2 upheld, none ruled incorrect.
At VAR, the same 2 decisions: 2 correct, 0 incorrect. The VAR layer is a separate official’s work and is never attributed to the referee.
2 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.
- Arsenal v Coventry · 37:21 — Penalty not awarded. Handball appeal against Van Ewijk (COV)
The panel upheld (5-0). “The Referee's call of no penalty for a potential handball offence against Van Ewijk was supported. The arms were in a justifiable position within the bodyline.” - Brentford v Sunderland · 79:02 — Penalty awarded. Challenge by Lewis-Potter (BRE) on Isidor (SUN)
The panel upheld (4-1). “Lewis-Potter was not looking at the ball and makes a clear and sustained holding action that impacts Isidor's ability to progress towards the ball. The panel supported the referee's call of penalty for a holding offence, 4:1.”
Panel-confirmed errors
- 2025-26 · Bournemouth v West Ham · 66' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2025-26 · Crystal Palace v Leeds · 45' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Manchester City v Bournemouth · 73' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Manchester United v Aston Villa · 72' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2023-24 · Liverpool v Bournemouth · 58' — VAR missed an on-field error
- 2023-24 · Nottingham Forest v West Ham · 81' — VAR missed an on-field error