With players sent off in three consecutive games, Manchester City equal a Premiership record set up by Wimbledon in November 1995. The Londoners lost all three games, by a combined goal tally of 3-12, significantly due to the dismissal in one match of their goaly, Heald, without another keeper on the bench. Predictably, Vinnie Jones was another of the culprits, one of his three dismissals that year, still a single season record

Manchester City have escaped much more lightly totalling four points in the three matches with Anelka's two early strikes against Everton before Wright-Phillips' dismissal particularly useful

Exactly half of the clubs that have graced the Premiership have at least one occurrence of finishing consecutive matches with 10 men. Only newcomers, Birmingham, have completely evaded having at least one player taking an early shower

The current 'good-boys' are Chelsea who have racked up a season-worth of games since Jokanovic was dismissed. Somwhat surprisingly, Leeds have the best all-time record with a sequence of 131 matches without a dismissal - the only team topping the 100 mark. It was not until sixth game of 1995/6 that John Pemberton became their first player dismissed in Premiership and they currently only stand 10th on the list with 21 occurrences compared with leaders Everton's 38. In contrast, they have 40 more yellow cards than any other club

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