The primary purpose of the following paper is to introduce and analyse the topic of racial biases within a high-profile team sport worldwide, and in this context, test for the presence of racial discrimination in the application of disciplinary sanctions in British football and the Premier League. Regarding other pieces of work, this specific type of issue has been the subject of only two other studies to date in the context of a professional team sport, with Price and Wolfers (2010) providing an application to professional basketball in the US and Witt and Reilly (2011) providing research on the Premier League.  With a focus on player, referee and game-specific fixed effects, the authors differ in their concluding findings. Price and Wolfers find “more personal fouls are called against players of a particular racial group when the games are officiated by opposite compared to own-race refereeing crews”, thus displaying clear racial biases. On the other hand, Reilly and Witt conclude that there is “no evidence of unfair treatment of players from racial minority groups in the accumulation of disciplinary cards”. With outcomes very much being a \cite{sweepstake}, it will be intriguing to see my findings and how they compare to the work done prior to mine.