After Connor Roberts’ red card against Brentford, Vincent Kompany has managed to earn more red cards than Sean Dyche had managed in any season in his tenure with Burnley.
Under Dyche:
| Season | Red Cards | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 2013/14 | 1 | Tom Heaton (vs. Brighton) |
| 2014/15 | 2 | Ashley Barnes (vs. Brighton), Michael Duff (vs. West Ham) |
| 2015/16 | 0 | - |
| 2016/17 | 2 | Ashley Barnes (vs. Swansea), Jeff Hendrick (vs. Watford) |
| 2017/18 | 0 | - |
| 2018/19 | 1 | Robbie Brady (vs. Huddersfield) |
| 2019/20 | 0 | - |
| 2020/21 | 0 | - |
| 2021/22 | 1* | Nathan Collins (vs. Brentford) |
(* - Matthew Lowton would later receive a red card against Aston Villa, but by then Dyche had been sacked)
Under Kompany:
| Season | Red Cards | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 2 | Ian Maatsen (vs. Blackpool), Connor Roberts (vs. 'Boro) |
| 2023/24 (9 games in) | 3 | Anass Zaroury (vs. Chelsea), Lyle Foster (vs. Forest), Connor Roberts (vs. Brentford) |
Other interesting factoids:
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Vincent Kompany is averaging more than 4.54 red cards per season.
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Sean Dyche averaged 0.78 red cards per season (0.8 if you count his departing in 21/22
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Burnley currently sit 18th on the fair play table (behind Wolves and Liverpool). This would be their lowest position ever in a modern PL season.
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Burnley under Dyche would often rank as one of the Premier League’s cleanest teams (statistically), finishing in the bottom half of the Fair Play table only twice (with one being their relegation season in 21/22, the other in 18/19). In 20/21 they’d finish as the second cleanest team in the league behind Liverpool with a previous high of 4th and 6th.
Bad Kompany