IN A season which appears as though it will not amount to much in the end, Swindon Town broke one record during the 1-0 defeat to Stockport County on Saturday while matching another.

Unfortunately for the Robins, they weren’t the kind of achievements anyone will look back on proudly.

Adver Sport flicks through all 10 dismissals this season and shares a bit of history – courtesy of Swindon-town-fc.co.uk – behind Town’s record-levelling red recipients.

Jacob Wakeling’s red card after 39 seconds at the weekend was the fastest ever for a Town player. The 21-year-old received his marching orders 13 seconds faster than Ian Culverhouse was sent off against Everton in January 1997.

Making up the top three is David Kerslake, who spent just under three minutes on the field against Leicester City in October 1990.

Wakeling’s sending off also made it the joint-highest number Town have ever received in a single season alongside the incredibly ill-disciplined campaign of 2001-02 (10).

Saidou Khan’s retrospective dismissal after Salford City was Town’s ninth red – a problem that would not have occurred before the 2013-14 season, the year in which the FA began the system.

In Jody Morris’ first game in charge – against Newport County – Rushian Hepburn-Murphy slotted in at number six on the list of quickest red cards for Swindon after lashing out at Micky Demetriou.

Both Khan’s third red card of the season and Hepburn-Murphy’s first were totally avoidable after lashing out, and Morris will have to clamp down on petulance moving forward if Town are not to punish themselves, as they have done this season, through ill-discipline.

Khan was sent off for the second time against Gillingham for two yellow cards at the end of January. That snapped a run of 13 games without a dismissal for Town – the Robins’ longest streak of the season.

Ciaran Brennan was correctly shown a red card against Bristol Rovers in the EFL Trophy, while Ricky Aguiar’s dismissal appeared to be extremely harsh in the same game.

Town’s fourth red of the year followed a similar theme to their first. Both Khan and Harry McKirdy were wronged by incompetent officiating and did not deserve to pick up second yellows.

Harrison Minturn was clumsy before heading for an early bath against Walsall in the League Cup, as was Cian Harries when departing 10 minutes before the end of Swindon’s 2-0 defeat to Crystal Palace Under-21s in the EFL Trophy.