Would this be the dirtiest XI in football history? | OneFootball

The world’s most controversial lineup? A collection of cunning, conniving, bad guys?

We think we’ve cracked it, we think we’ve put together the most dastardly XI modern football has had to offer in an unconventional 3-2-2-3 formation.

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GK: Jens Lehmann

Lehmann once picked up eight bookings in a single season while at Borussia Dortmund, was shown seven yellow cards across his club career, and famously took a break from a Champions League game to relieve himself right behind his own goal.

DF: Sergio Ramos

Either Ramos or his former Real Madrid team-mate Pepe had to be here. And we’ve gone for Ramos, the man who saw 26 red cards during his Real Madrid career and has picked up a breathtaking 150 yellows for club and country.

No player has ever received more cards for Real Madrid or for Spain, or in LaLiga, or in the Champions League, or in El Clásico.

DF: Vinnie Jones

The original Premier League hard-man turned Hollywood star, Jones collected 36 yellow cards and seven red cards in his 184 Premier League appearances.

Then there’s THAT Gazza photo and a six-month ban (suspended for three years) for commentating in a video that glorified football violence.

DF: Patrice Evra

Evra is not who springs to mind when you think of football’s dirtiest players but he has also stumbled into controversy on more than one occasion, most bizarrely for sucking on a raw chicken leg.

But that didn’t land him in hot water, unlike the time he kicked a Marseille fan in the head will playing for the French club and was hit with a seven-month UEFA ban.

DM: Roy Keane

Only two players have ever collected more than Roy Keane’s seven Premier League red cards. And his controversial career doesn’t end there.

There were regular run-ins with Patrick Vieira and Alan Shearer and the even-more controversial challenge on Alf-Inge Haaland that ended the Norwegian’s playing career and saw Keane slapped with an eight-game ban.

DM: Nigel De Jong

We’ll get to the most famous foul in World Cup history in a moment. But this man surely delivered the most famous foul in World Cup history without being sent off. And in the final, no less.

That, on top of his hardman reputation, is more than enough for a place in this team.

AM: Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine picked up two red cards in his entire international career. One in his second ever World Cup match, against Saudi Arabia, and one in his last (and the last game he ever played), against Italy.

His headbutt on Marco Materazzi might be the most famous foul in the history of the sport.

AM: Eric Cantona

Has football ever seen a more controversial moment than Eric Cantona launching himself into a Crystal Palace fan?

The Manchester United icon received a nine-month ban but has since said he has no regrets.

FW: Paolo Guerrero

Paolo Guerrero has made a lot of  headlines for the wrong reasons during his career.

From a horror tackle (above) on Sven Ulreich landing him an eight-game ban, to throwing a bottle at an angry Hamburg fan (and hitting him before being punished with a club record ban worth over €50,000), all the way to being involved in doping scandals. We had to include him.

FW: Duncan Ferguson

The joint Premier League record holder for eight red cards is …  a striker.

Such was life as Duncan Ferguson.

FW: Luis Suárez

Who else? Luis Suárez. The man who punched the ball off the line in the dying moments of a World Cup game and loved it.

The man who has bitten THREE opponents during his career.

He just had to lead the line.