Top 10 dirtiest footballers of the modern era

4) Lee Cattermole

“Oh no, not again!”

69 yellow cards and 7 red cards in 216 matches in the EPL for Lee Cattermole. A shocking disciplinary record that shows no signs of improving.

Fans of Cattermole will no doubt point to his feisty and aggressive personality, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of getting regularly suspended from crucial games. Nor does it explain why Cattermole and Bendtner decided to get into a pub brawl and went about vandalising cars in Newcastle.

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3) Gary Medel

“Who cares about his broken ankle? I got the ball!!”

Gary Medel, who currently plays for EPL side Cardiff City, has a nickname that will set the alarm bells ringing for his manager. El Pitbull, as he is fondly known, has a playing style similar to another entrant on this list, Gennaro Gattuso. Perhaps that’s why Chilean fans have nicknamed him the Chilean Gattuso.

Medel was at La Liga side Sevilla before joining Cardiff, where he had a notorious disciplinary record, picking up 7 red cards in 89 games. And this is what he did after receiving one of those 7 red cards.