The disciplinary committee are starting to get tough! New regulations mean that any insult to referees will be treated more harshly than before, and the first consequences were seen after this weekend's games. Espanyol's Osvaldo was the hardest hit after he was sent off for catching Mallorca's Crespi with his elbow, his comments to the referee's face saying "you are a disaster" costing him a two match ban on top of the one for the red card. Osasuna's Camuñas was also suspended for two games after he was sent off for calling the referee a "chulo" (smart-arse?), and there was a similar penalty for Hércules star striker David Trézéguet for asking "what have you whistled for, you shitty shitter?" (if Muñiz Fernández's report is true, we can only marvel at how quickly he has picked up Spanish!). The referee also sent off Villarreal's Borja Valero and Musacchio later on, the former for a second bookable offence, and the latter for an elbow on an opponent. Elsewhere Zaragoza's Pinter got his marching orders after picking up bookings either side of half time against Athletic Bilbao, and Lopo (Deportivo) and Luis García (Espanyol) became the third and fourth players to be given a one match ban after being shown their fifth yellow cards of the season. (21.10.10)