Scientists are forecasting that there will likely be 100 purple playing cards in what’s being known as essentially the most aggressive season within the historical past of the Premier League.
The upcoming 2023/24 season is anticipated to be the ‘most contentious season ever’ within the Premier League, with an estimated 100 purple playing cards anticipated to be issued by the season’s conclusion.
Premier League chiefs applied a stricter officiating threshold in the summertime break, seeing extra yellow playing cards handed out for time-wasting cases, because the prolonged added time was introduced in to handle this as effectively. These new legal guidelines have seen an increase in yellow playing cards and the quantity of purple playing cards dished out has additionally shot up.
At the weekend alone, Liverpool noticed Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota controversially despatched off in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur, so as to add to Virgil van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister’s purple playing cards earlier on within the season for the Reds – with the latter’s rescinded after an attraction. While Moussa Niakhate was additionally despatched off on the weekend for Nottingham Forest.
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Research from Bonus Code Bets confirmed that after simply seven matchdays thus far this season, there have been 17 purple playing cards proven at 0.25 per recreation, with a large 5 yellow playing cards proven per recreation – with 339 awarded. Therefore, at this trajectory, the present season appears to be like set to smash the disciplinary document for essentially the most purple and yellow playing cards, topping 2005/06 – which is at the moment the dirtiest season within the top-flight because the Premier League started.
During the 05/06 marketing campaign, through which Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea lifted the league for the second time in consecutive years and conceded simply 22 objectives, a document 75 purple playing cards have been proven at 0.197 per recreation, however the yellow card rely pales in significance when in comparison with earlier campaigns, with 1171 yellow playing cards proven at 3.082.
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The most yellow playing cards proven in a single season got here within the 1998/99 season – Manchester United’s treble successful 12 months – seeing 1416 bookings totted up at 3.726 per recreation. That season additionally noticed the second most purple playing cards in a accomplished season with 73 – simply two lower than the main 05/06 marketing campaign.
A serious speaking level concerning and infrequently criticising purple playing cards within the top-flight comes via VAR’s intervention, however the analysis truly reveals that seasons the place VAR was used noticed fewer purple playing cards. In VAR’s maiden marketing campaign within the 2019/20 season, there have been 44 purple playing cards at 0.116 per recreation – the eighth lowest of any Premier League season.
The following years additionally see surprisingly low findings, with the 2020/21 season seeing an increase to 48 at 0.126 per recreation, while the 2021/22 season dropped to 43 purple playing cards and final 12 months’s 2022/23 marketing campaign noticed the second-lowest on document, with simply 30 purple playing cards in 380 video games.