Always the calm, collected peacemaker, West Ham defender Neil Ruddock claims that the Arsenal players' red cards are a result of them being bad losers.

Ruddock says to the Online Mirror: "It only happens when they are losing. When [Patrick] Vieira was sent off against us they were losing and on Sunday at Spurs they had men sent-off when they were behind."

Ruddock insists that Vieira now has "established a red-card reputation".