Getting sent off and picking up bookings generally gets a player classed as a “dirty” player in English football, although it must be said that there are far fewer stars in the modern game who deserve to be labelled with that tag.

Tactical fouls and stricter refereeing mean that footballers, who no one would describe as hard tacklers, can rack up the yellow and red cards.

Even so, we have compiled our list from the latest data from WhoScored, taking into account the cards handed out by referees from the first nine rounds of league fixtures.

Press the next page as we list the five ‘dirtiest’ players in the top flight so far this season.