Yellow card stats don’t tell the full story

What the pushers of these stats conveniently forget or ignore is that not every foul is worthy of a caution, or that our opponents have an annoying tendency to fall to the ground whenever anyone in a green and white shirt breathes in their vicinity.

The biggest percentage of those ‘offences’ are committed further up the field and warrant no more than a free kick to the opposition, so it makes the foul count stack up in games we overwhelmingly enjoy the majority of possession.

There are no ‘dark arts’ at play. We dominate games as we are the best footballing side in a playing and disciplinary sense. If anything the officials are more lenient in the sense that they fail to punish the brutality often dished out to our players. You won’t see that in the stats.