Gary Lineker holds a proud record of never having received a yellow or red card in his entire professional club or international career.
That’s across:
- Club football: Leicester City, Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham, Nagoya Grampus Eight
- International: 80 caps for England
In his 16 year professional career Lineker played a very impressive total of 734 senior professional games without ever getting booked or sent off
- 654 club matches
- 80 England internationals
It’s one of football’s most famous fair-play stats and part of why he won the FIFA Fair Play Award and is often mentioned whenever disciplinary records come up in conversation. Arguably he has since managed to get in more trouble in his time as a TV presenter.
