It’s not impossible to win with 10 men of course but it certainly makes things more difficult than it needs to be.
It is an area Sunderland need to tighten up on having received three straight red cards this season and 65 bookings.
Around the league there has been 1,438 yellow cards, 17 double bookings and 31 straight red cards.
Just five sides are yet to have a man sent off, while Blackpool have had a whopping NINE men red carded this season.
So how does Sunderland’s’ discipline compare to the rest of the league? Here we have the answers in this Championship fair play table.
A yellow card counts one point, a double booking three points and a red card five points.
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