Loading the essentials…
The page is ready first. More details follow section by section.
Michael Salisbury has a referee profile on FootSam that collects registered matches and competitions. The match history shows which teams met in the matches where the referee has a documented assignment. The season sections make it possible to follow how the assignments are distributed over time. Card statistics and other referee figures are shown in relation to the matches included in the records.
You can open a match to see its results, events and possibly the referee team. The competition connections show in which leagues the referee appears in FootSam's data. The profile thus provides a path from a single referee effort to a larger match history.
Loading referee profile…
EnglandReferee2019–2026Results and referee statistics · All competitions
Data coverage: cards in 169 of 177 matches, fouls in 169, penalties in 165. Averages use only known data.
Loading statistics…
Loading statistics…
571 cards in 169 matches
The first yellow card is shown, on average, in minute 38 (median 35), based on the 157 matches where a yellow card was shown.
yellows reds· cards per 15-minute period · scale 0–182
Loading statistics…
Loading statistics…
Based on 61 of his 178 matches — those with known officials.
9 of 149 matches were top clashes
He receives roughly as many top clashes as an even allocation in his own league seasons would produce. The difference is within what chance can explain.
| Match | Date | Cards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich1–1MillwallChampionship | 21 Mar 2026 | 3 | Open |
| Ipswich3–2SouthamptonChampionship | 1 Apr 2024 | 5 | Open |
| Barnsley1–0BoltonLeague One | 19 May 2023 | 3 | Open |
| Burnley2–0Sheffield UtdChampionship | 10 Apr 2023 | 5 | Open |
| Sheffield Utd1–2HuddersfieldChampionship | 21 Aug 2021 | 3 | Open |
| Sunderland2–1LincolnLeague One | 22 May 2021 | 4 | Open |
| Norwich1–0BarnsleyChampionship | 2 Jan 2021 | 1 | Open |
| Morecambe1–2Forest GreenLeague Two | 24 Oct 2020 | 6 | Open |
| Coventry2–1Fleetwood TownLeague One | 23 Oct 2019 | 2 | Open |
3.38 cards per game — 9% below the average in the same leagues and seasons. More likely to issue cards than 20 % of the 1,564 referees we can compare with.
5 of 6 axes have enough coverage for a comparison
Scale 0–100 · league-adjusted percentile. Each metric shows the referee's average per game.
