In your normal football match, there are two teams with eleven men with 22 players left on the pitch but if you go against the rules and get carded it could mess up your game, especially in the Championship.
Get a yellow and you have a warning, but if you get another yellow or even a red then you’re gone and it can massively affect your team.
Bookable offences can range from making a cynical foul to stop your opponent from making an advance up the pitch or time wasting to a serious foul.
Bristol City this season have not had too many occasions where they have gone down to 10 men, but when it did occur, it proved costly for the Robins.
With the score tied up at 1-1 against Queens Park Rangers after Charlie Austin’s penalty cancelled out Alex Scott’s opener, Andy King was shown his second yellow card.
It left the Robins a man light for 30 minutes and as a result, Yoann Barbet scored a stoppage time winner with that extra man on the pitch, perhaps playing a part in that last minute goal.
The defeat to QPR left a bitter taste in the mouth of Nigel Pearson and the aftermath of that was he was fined for his comments against the referee.
Here we will look at the teams with the most cards which will give an understanding of who ‘the dirtiest’ team are in the Championship.
We rank the point system as a yellow equals one point, a yellow-red card is three points and a red card is five points, so the more points the dirtier your team is.
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1. 24. Reading – 53 points ( Y- 49, R-1)
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2. 22. Huddersfield – 59 points ( Y-59, R-0 )
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3. 22. Fulham – 59 points ( Y-49, R-2)
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4. 21. Peterborough – 63 points ( Y-60, R-1 )
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