How do you stop a problem like Adama Traore? You kick him. Or for some variation, you might trip him up. Or you could push him over.



In fact, anything except tickling him or pulling his hair. Traore is the most fouled player, in terms of yellow cards, in English football this season.



He’s made 26 appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers in all competitions — and 24 players have been booked for fouling him. It’s worth repeating that number because it almost beggars belief. Twenty four.



Wolves will play a minimum of 55 matches this season. At this rate, Traore will make 48 appearances and 44 opponents will be cautioned for chopping, scything or hauling him to the floor.



Three came yesterday against Tottenham Hotspur (after three at Brighton & Hove Albion last week), with Traore hacked three times, on each occasion quite deliberately, as the ball rolled into the distance and the Spaniard, aka the human express train, hared after it.