Being sent off is not something that a professional footballer looks back on with fondness when they think of their career in the game. And being sent off at home for your club is even harder to forget!

In ten years of football at the Britannia Stadium, there have been a total of 25 dismissals of Stoke City players in first-team action. Throw in the visitors and the figure goes up to 47 red cards shown at the stadium.

The first name into the Hall of Shame is Tosh McKinlay, a Scottish left back on loan from Celtic. Stoke lost the February '98 fixture with Middlesbrough 2-1 thanks to an 81st minute winner from Jaime Moreno, and McKinlay couldn't have made a worse start for the Potters having been given his marching orders with seven minutes of his club debut remaining!

A week later and the first visiting player was sent off; Ipswich's Argentinean full-back Mauricio Taricco saw red with ten minutes left of the 1-1 draw with City.

The Potters have been reduced to nine men just the once, West Midlands referee Andy Hall sending off both Wayne Thomas and Brynjar Gunnarsson in the 2-1 defeat to Coventry back in 2002.

Other memorable early baths include Ben Petty's straight red for taking out a Walsall player en-route to goal in the Second Division Play-Offs and Gerry Taggart's highly controversial dismissal following an altercation with QPR's Marc Bircham.

Jason Jarrett and Chris Barker are two former Potters who have been sent off against us, while on-loan substitute Allan Smart was sent off against Oldham and soon after went on to sign for the Latics!

Opposition players to have been red-carded who now play their football in the Premier League include Matt Taylor, Jason Roberts, Jason Koumas and Steve Howard.

Stoke's bad boys meanwhile include Brynjar Gunnarsson, Wayne Thomas, Gerry Taggart, Michael Duberry and Ricardo Fuller - all players to receive two red cards a piece. Fuller is of course the last player to be dismissed, a feat that makes him the 25th City player to receive his marching orders in the past decade.

THE FULL LIST OF RED CARDS

1. Tosh McKinlay (83rd minute, 1st February 1998)
Stoke City 1 (Kavanagh 36 pen)
Middlesbrough 2 (Pearson 17, Moreno 81)

2. Mauricio Taricco (80th minute, 7th February 1998)
Stoke City 1 (Holsgrove 15)
Ipswich Town 1 (Holland 78)

3. Justin Whittle (89th minute, 21st March 1998)
Stoke City 2 (Dowie og 21, Crowe 51)
QPR 1 (Barker 90 pen)

4. Graham Kavanagh (55th minute, 19th August 1998)
Stoke City 1 (Thorne 78)
Macclesfield Town 0
League Cup 1st Round 2nd Leg

5. Graham Alexander (71st minute, 7th November 1998)
Stoke City 3 (Oldfield 5, Forsyth 37, Lightbourne 90)
Luton Town 1 (Douglas 81)

6. Phil Robinson (39th minute, 29th January 1999)
Stoke City 0
Man City 1 (Wiekens 20)

7. Kyle Lightbourne (77th minute, 9th October 1999)
Stoke City 2 (Mohan 68, Jacobsen 89)
Reading 1 (Forster 52)

8. Anders Jacobsen (70th minute, 7th December 1999)
Stoke City 3 (Lightbourne 25 & 93, Reed 40 og)
Darlington 2 (O'Connor 4 og, Gabbiadini 81)
Football League Trophy 1st Round AET

9. Matt Taylor (44th minute, 8th January 2000)
Stoke City 2 (Connor 24, Lightbourne 87)
Luton Town 1 (Spring 59 pen)

10. Brynjar Gunnarsson (42nd minute, 18th November 2000)
Stoke City 0
Nuneaton Borough 0
FA Cup 1st Round

11. Jason Jarrett (66th minute, 26th December 2000)
Stoke City 2 (Dadason 39, Gunnarsson 84)
Bury 1 (Paul Barnes 19)

12. Darren Sheridan (54th minute, 27th January 2001)
Stoke City 2 (Cooke 18, Thorne 60)
Wigan Athletic 0

13. Ian Gaunt (80th minute, 7th February 2001)
Stoke City 4 (Clarke 3, Goodfellow 59, Petty 67, Thordarson 81 pen)
Walsall 0
Football League Trophy Northern Quarter Final

14. Ben Petty (85th minute, 13th May 2001)
Stoke City 0
Walsall 0
Play-Offs 1st Leg

15. Peter Handyside (102nd minute, 22nd August 2001)
Stoke City 0
Oldham Athletic 0 (Oldham win 6-5 on penalties)
League Cup 1st Round

16. Scott Murray (90th minute, 27th October 2001)
Stoke City 1 (Gunnarsson 88)
Bristol City 0

17. Allan Smart (84th minute, 21st November 2001)
Stoke City 0
Oldham Athletic 0

18. Peter Wright (90th minute, 12th December 2001)
Stoke City 3 (Gudjonsson 22, Iwelumo 27, Gunnarsson 47)
Halifax Town 0
FA Cup 2nd Round Replay

19. Paul Emblen (32nd minute, 15th December 2001)
Stoke City 5 (Gunnarsson 19, Iwelumo 30, Gunnarsson 44, Cooke 58, Goodfellow 85)
Wycombe Wanderers 1 (McSporran 24)

20. Wayne Thomas (72nd minute, 7th December 2002)
21. Brynjar Gunnarsson (87th minute, 7th December 2002)
Stoke City 1 (Hoekstra 35)
Coventry City 2 (Bothroyd 16 & 21)

22. Chris Tardiff (goalkeeper, 45th minute, 26th January 2001)
Stoke City 3 (Iwelumo 45 pen & 51, Hoekstra 84)
Bournemouth 0
FA Cup 4th Round

23. John Mullin (64th minute, 9th April 2003)
Stoke City 2 (Warhurst 21, Cooke 40)
Rotherham United 0

24. Carl Asaba (55th minute, 6th September 2003)
Stoke City 1 (Asaba 53)
Burnley 2 (May 18, Luke Chadwick 27)

25. Sean Thornton (74th minute, 16th September 2003)
Stoke City 3 (Noel-Williams 24, Russell 37 & 39)
Sunderland 1 (Kyle 54)

26. Marcus Hall (65th minute, 23rd September 2003)
Stoke City 0
Gillingham 2 (Saunders 24, King 52)

27. Wayne Thomas (46th minute, 1st November 2003)
Stoke City 2 (Noel-Williams 4, Akinbiyi 18)
Sheffield United (Kozluk 53, Lester 90 pen)

28. Michael Jackson (90th minute, 26th December 2003)
Stoke City 1 (Eustace 90 pen)
Preston North End 1 (Healy 66)

29. Jason Roberts (76th minute, 21st February 2004)
Stoke City 1 (Akinbiyi 45)
Wigan Athletic 1 (Ellington 84)

30. Jason Koumas (88th minute, 4th May 2004)
Stoke City 4 (Russell 45, Commons 62 & 73, Noel-Williams 86)
West Brom 1 (Dobie 50)

31. John Halls (82nd minute, 14th September 2004)
Stoke City 3 (Thomas 45 & 75, Akinbiyi 85)
Ipswich Town 2 (De Vos 41, Westlake 62)

32. Gerry Taggart (38th minute, 2nd October 2004)
Stoke City 0
QPR 1 (Gallen 69)

33. Michael Duberry (90th minute, 2nd April 2005)
Stoke City 1 (Noel-Williams 83)
Rotherham United 2 (Butler 23, Noel-Williams 90 og)

34. Gerry Taggart (13th minute, 6th August 2005)
Stoke City 0
Sheffield Wednesday 0

35. Steve Howard (26th minute, 20th August 2005)
Stoke City 2 (Broomes 63, Brammer 90)
Luton Town 1 (Morgan 9)

36. Darren Huckerby (52nd minute, 29th August 2005)
Stoke City 3 (Kolar 9, Harper 45, Sidibe 69)
Norwich City 1 (Ashton 38)

37. Steve Simonsen (70th minute, 10th September 2005)
Stoke City 0
Watford 3 (Devlin 24, Young 67, King 72 pen)

38. Michael Duberry (90th minute, 18th October 2005)
Stoke City 2 (Bangoura 41, Duberry 64)
Crewe 0

39. John Halls (51st minute, 3rd December 2005)
Stoke City 1 (Bangoura 26)
QPR 2 (Furlong 2, Langley 52 pen)

40. Darel Russell (55th minute, 4th February 2006)
Stoke City 0
Preston North End 0

41. Craig James (12th minute, 22nd August 2006)
Stoke City 1 (Pericard 29)
Darlington 2 (Logan 45, Joachim 54)
League Cup 1st Round

42. Jamie Ashdown (goalkeeper, 72nd minute, 28th October 2006)
Stoke City 5 (Hendrie 22, Fuller 38, Higginbotham 74 pen, Chadwick 79, Russell 90)
Norwich City 0

43. Ricardo Fuller (63rd minute, 6th November 2006)
Stoke City 1 (Griffin 60)
Coventry City 0

44. Stephen McPhail (85th minute, 28th November 2006)
Stoke City 3 (Fuller 60, Lawrence 63, Sidibe 65)
Cardiff City 0

45. Ricardo Fuller (29th minute, 17th February 2007)
46. Sol Davis (37th minute, 17th February 2007)
Stoke City 0
Luton Town 0

47. Chris Barker (78th minute, 28th April 2007)
Stoke City 3 (Russell 53, Sidibe 57, Higginbotham 62)
Colchester United 1 (Iwelumo 38 pen)