James McArthur has hacked his way to the top of a Premier League naughty list … by being named the English top flight’s biggest fouler of the last five years.
The Crystal Palace midfielder committed an astonishing 259 fouls in the last five seasons - 12 more than Southampton enforcer Oriol Romeu who is the second worst offender.
Despite being on the wrong end of the referee’s whistle so often, former Hamilton Academical man McArthur only picked up 29 bookings in that time for his club.
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