It’s not impossible to win with 10 men of course but it certainly makes things more difficult than it needs to be.
It’s so far so good for Hartlepool who are yet to have a man sent off this season.
Around the league there has been 504 yellow cards, 10 double bookings and 9 straight red cards.
So how does Hartlepool’s discipline compare to the rest of the league? Here we have the answers in this League Two fair play table.
A yellow card counts one point, a double booking three points and a red card five points.
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