Danny Care breaks unwanted Gallagher Premiership record

He received his sixth sin-binning for dissent in the final minute against Saints to overtake Garath Archer at Bristol.

James Grayson's late penalty helped Northampton beat Quins 32-31 and put Saints in with a great chance of making the Premiership play-offs.

No England player has been carded more than the entertaining flanker, who spent an entire hour of his international career in the sin-bin.

The loosehead may have never managed a five-pointer for England over the course of his 72 caps, but it is still within his power to change that as he is still part of Eddie Jones’ current plans (unless he retires again).

The England lock was shown a red card in the second minute of the 2022 Six Nations match against Ireland at Twickenham - the earliest sending off for any team since the championship began in 1883.

Ewels was dismissed after a head on head contact while tackling with opposite number James Ryan 82 seconds into the match.

No one strives to be the second best at their chosen profession but sometimes circumstances dictate that you play a supporting role. Incredibly, Care has only started 38 of his 84 England caps.

Two little words were all it took for Hartley’s Lions dreams to crumble to dust. The 11-week ban that the former England captain copped for telling referee Wayne Barnes to “f— off” in Northampton’s 2013 Premiership final loss to Leicester put the nail in his Lions coffin.