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Paul Suart

How Bristol City, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest fared in Championship fair play table

Bristol City have been ranked as one of the best behaved teams in the Championship in the final fair play table.

The Robins received a total of three red cards this season, with Ashley Williams getting dismissed twice and Famara Diedhiou once, and while that was the third highest total this season, their yellow card total (63) was one of the lowest.

With points awarded for number of yellow cards and red cards, Bristol City were the fifth cleanest team is the second tier this season.

Elsewhere in the league, Brentford might have narrowly missed out on automatic promotion, but they've come out top in this table.

The Bees were officially the cleanest team in the second tier, notching up just 52 yellow cards and only one red across the 46-game regular season.

Thomas Franks's players may well wrack up more cautions in their play-off semi-final against Swansea City, and potentially in the final at Wembley.

But their place at the top of the Championship 2019/20 fair play table is secured.

Stoke City once struck the fear of God into their opponents, with Jermaine Jenas recently recalling that every game against them was "like a war". Not any more.

In fact, the Potters were among the best-behaved clubs in the Championship, registering 62 yellow cards and two reds to sit second in the fair play standings.

Alex Neil's Preston were the third-most disciplined team (63 yellow, two red) and Luton Town made up the fair play top four (75 yellow).

Compare those clean slates with Derby County, who thundered their way to 83 yellow cards and a whopping six reds under Phillip Cocu.

Martyn Waghorn, Max Lowe, Tom Lawrence, Scott Malone, Louis Sibley and Krystian Bielik were all given their marching orders for the bad-tempered Rams. Sibley's was later overturned on appeal.

Birmingham City midfielder Gary Gardner was the Championship's most booked player with 14 cautions to his name, followed by Wigan's Joe Williams and Blackburn's Lewis Travis (13).

Four players were sent off twice: Ashley Williams, Cheyenne Dunkley (Wigan), Harlee Dean (Birmingham) and Josh Magennis (Hull).

No one committed more fouls than beefy Birmingham striker Lukas Jutkiewicz (105), going into the referee's notepad five times.

He was followed in the charts by Luton's James Collins (94), Wigan captain Sam Morsy (87), West Brom's Jake Livermore (84), Birmingham team-mate Ivan Sunjic and Hull's Tom Eaves (both 81).

West Brom winger Matheus Pereira was the most fouled player in the division (114), with QPR star Ebere Eze next (107).

Transfermarkt kept track of who Championship referees cautioned by way of position.

There were 44 yellow cards and two reds for goalkeepers, 397 yellows and 10 reds for forwards, 636 yellows and 27 reds for defenders and 738 yellows and 27 reds for midfielders.

In all that is 1,813 yellow cards and 65 dismissals, slightly down on 2018/19, when there were 1,841 yellows and 74 reds.

In 2017/18 there were 1,904 yellows and 83 reds.

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