Tim Robinson
The independent Key Match Incidents panel has reviewed 45 of those matches and confirmed 10 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 | 9 | 22.9 | 4.00 | 0.22 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-25 | 15 | 23.1 | 4.53 | 0.13 | 3 | 6 |
| 2023-24 | 21 | 23.1 | 4.24 | 0.00 | 6 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | 2 | 28.5 | 4.50 | 0.00 | —‡ | — |
| 2019-20 | 1 | 27.0 | 2.00 | 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 4.25 yellow cards a game, against a league median of 3.67 for rated referees, on 23.4 fouls a game.
Added time
8.0 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 7.1 from these fixtures — more than those stoppages predict.
Added time is captured from 2024-25 onward, over the 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolves | 7 | 3–1–3 | 18 | 2.57 |
| Crystal Palace | 6 | 1–3–2 | 12 | 2.00 |
| Bournemouth | 6 | 1–2–3 | 14 | 2.33 |
| Brighton | 6 | 1–2–3 | 16 | 2.67 |
| Burnley | 5 | 2–0–3 | 9 | 1.80 |
| Newcastle | 5 | 3–0–2 | 4 | 0.80 |
| Tottenham | 5 | 2–0–3 | 12 | 2.40 |
| Chelsea | 5 | 2–1–2 | 13 | 2.60 |
| Nottingham Forest | 5 | 4–1–0 | 10 | 2.00 |
| Fulham | 5 | 0–3–2 | 7 | 1.40 |
| Everton | 5 | 3–2–0 | 14 | 2.80 |
| West Ham | 5 | 1–3–1 | 9 | 1.80 |
| Aston Villa | 4 | 2–1–1 | 7 | 1.75 |
| Ipswich | 4 | 0–1–3 | 12 | 3.00 |
| Leicester | 3 | 0–1–2 | 6 | 2.00 |
| Arsenal | 3 | 3–0–0 | 2 | 0.67 |
| Brentford | 3 | 2–0–1 | 7 | 2.33 |
| Liverpool | 3 | 3–0–0 | 6 | 2.00 |
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 · Sunderland v Bournemouth — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Ipswich v Leicester · 76' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Ipswich v Leicester · 77' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Aston Villa v Crystal Palace · 65' — VAR missed an on-field error; Sarr is in control, touches the ball towards the goal and would have had an obvious opportunity to have a shot on goal. The panel (3:2) felt the VAR should have intervened for a clear and obvious error.
- 2024-25 · Ipswich v Tottenham · 64' — on-field error below the clear-and-obvious threshold
- 2024-25 · Southampton v Manchester City · 45' — second-yellow error
- 2024-25 · Southampton v Manchester City · 57' — second-yellow error
- 2023-24 · Luton v Manchester City · 69' — VAR missed an on-field error