'Karen Carney and Rob Green are among 5-person panel who judge EPL referees'

Karen Carney and Rob Green are among a five-person panel judging the performance of Premier League referees, it has been revealed.

Up until last year, Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) assessed their own performance before it was determined that they could 'no longer mark their own homework'.

Telegraph Sport report that former England internationals Carney and Green are among those in the KMI (Key Match Incident) panel and there has been a slight improvement from last season, with a rise in correct decisions from 96 to 98 percent.

The identity of the panel members had been kept confidential. But they have now been revealed as Carney, Green, Jonathan Walters, Steven Reid and ex-Wimbledon boss Terry Burton.

The group meet weekly to run the rule over the big decisions made by Premier League referees.

They vote on whether they think a decision was correct and the majority is the accepted verdict.

A judgement sheet is then sent on to referees so they can see which decisions were correct and which weren't in the games they officiated.

Results are then put into a merit table which is one factor in determining which officials will be assigned to the bigger, more high profile matches.

It is not just the refereeing performances that the KMI panel study, with the panel also passing judgment on whether VAR was right or wrong to intervene in a given incident.

A referee can be ruled to have made a mistake but VAR may still be correct in avoiding intervention if there was no 'clear and obvious' error, say the Telegraph.

The panel was created before Howard Webb came in as PGMOL chief refereeing officer on December 1 last year.

Perhaps the highest profile weekend of blunders came last month on the weekend of February 11-12.

Lee Mason ended up quitting as full-time VAR official following his role in Arsenal's game against Brentford.

VAR incorrectly allowed Ivan Toney's equaliser to stand, after forgetting to check whether Christian Norgaard was offside.

Mikel Arteta was justifiably furious after the 1-1 draw and PGMOL apologised.

The more regular admissions of fault are also understood to be a result of the panel verdicts, which are decided every Thursday.