After slipping to second place for a week, Arsenal are back on top of the yellow card table but Liverpool and Leicester are the darlings.
![Arsenal treated harshest by officials, Liverpool and Leicester hardly bothered 1 LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 05: Referee: Graham Scott shows a yellow card to Hector Bellerin of Arsenal during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Brighton & Hove Albion at Emirates Stadium on December 5, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)](/static/uploads/2019/12/hector-bellerin-v-brighton.jpg)
That’s right, your eyes do not deceive you and you are not being paranoid.
Arsenal receive more yellow cards than any other side in the Premier League and need fewer fouls than any other side to pick one up. They also get more yellows per game than any other side.
As an aside, I’ve been concentrating on just yellows this season, only one side (Watford, 4) have had more reds than Arsenal’s three that sees them sit well clear on top of the of the FA’s Fair Play table.
I look at why that might be here.
Here’s the updated table:
Yellow card table
games | fouls | yellow | FPY | YPG | |
Arsenal | 24 | 258 | 59 | 4.373 | 2.46 |
Tottenham | 24 | 241 | 54 | 4.463 | 2.25 |
Bournemouth | 24 | 222 | 49 | 4.531 | 2.04 |
Norwich | 24 | 232 | 47 | 4.936 | 1.96 |
Watford | 24 | 286 | 56 | 5.107 | 2.33 |
Man City | 24 | 245 | 46 | 5.326 | 1.92 |
Chelsea | 24 | 239 | 43 | 5.558 | 1.79 |
Sheffield United | 24 | 263 | 47 | 5.596 | 1.96 |
West Ham | 23 | 252 | 45 | 5.600 | 1.96 |
Newcastle | 24 | 220 | 37 | 5.946 | 1.54 |
Aston Villa | 24 | 271 | 45 | 6.022 | 1.88 |
Man United | 24 | 267 | 44 | 6.068 | 1.83 |
Everton | 24 | 288 | 46 | 6.261 | 1.92 |
Burnley | 24 | 270 | 43 | 6.279 | 1.79 |
Wolves | 24 | 259 | 40 | 6.475 | 1.67 |
Brighton | 24 | 249 | 37 | 6.730 | 1.54 |
Crystal Palace | 24 | 260 | 37 | 7.027 | 1.54 |
Southampton | 24 | 294 | 38 | 7.737 | 1.58 |
Liverpool | 23 | 194 | 24 | 8.083 | 1.04 |
Leicester | 24 | 237 | 23 | 10.304 | 0.96 |
DailyCannon.com |
FPY = fouls per yellow |
YPG – yellows per game |