Five players received five red cards in the Premier League red card table of the decade and one of them was considered one of the best Arsenal players in the last 10 years – Laurent Koscielny.

Arsenal's French defender Laurent Koscielny acknowledges the public at the end of the UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg football match Napoli vs Arsenal on April 18, 2019 at the San Paolo stadium in Naples. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Laurent Koscileny may not have left Arsenal in the best of circumstances but he will, eventually, be remembered of one of the best players for Arsenal during the Banter Years.

Still, we all know he had a tendency to get sent off, sometimes deservedly so, often harshly.

To see him on this list with the others who are actual thugs smarts a little:

Premier League red card table of the decade top five:

  • Lee Cattermole
  • Tom Huddlestone
  • Younes Kaboul
  • Laurent Koscieny
  • Ryan Shawcross

(all with five reds each)