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Hereford top discipline league
Hereford United are the best disciplined team in the Conference so far this season according to the Non-League Paper. However Carlisle are close behind in second place.
The top two play each other at Carlisle on Saturday and already the Carlisle News and Star has got its facts incorrect.
They report that Paul Simpson, the Carlisle manager, has transformed his side from sinners to saints by tightening up their atrocious discipline last season and making them the best behaved team in the Conference.
At present Carlisle have received 13 yellow cards, whilst Hereford have 11 yellows and 1 red. Using three points for a yellow and five for a red, Hereford have 38 points and Carlisle 39 points.
"Our discipline has been excellent and I think that has been very important this season," said Simpson.
"It needed to be sorted out because it was atrocious last season. It did concern me because at the start of last season we had one of the worst records.
"You normally find that teams at the bottom of the league have dreadful disciplinary records.
"The players need to keep their heads and that is something we talk about all the time in training. The best way to get back into games is to keep our heads and keep our shape.
"We have a discipline structure which we stick to and, if players break the rules, they get fined for it. They probably don?t think about that on the pitch but we try to instil it into them to keep calm and keep their heads.
"If you lose concentration in a game by bad-mouthing the referee or belting a player, it stops you doing your job."
In contrast to Hereford United, who received just one yellow card given to Jonathan Gould last Saturday, Carlisle received three.
Peter Murphy, Chris Billy and Chris Lumsdon were all booked in the top of the table clash with Barnet.