Megia Dávila is never one to hold back on dishing out the cards, and he races to the top of our table this weekend with a season's record of 15 yellow cards and two reds in the bad tempered game between Sevilla and Deportivo. Megia, who has finished top of Soccer-Spain's white stick table each of the past two seasons, had already given out ten yellows by half time, and also awarded two penalties to the visitors, the first of which had to be controversially retaken for encroachment of two or three Sevilla players in the area after Palop saved Tristán's first kick.

Elsewhere Muñiz Fernández upset both Villarreal and Barcelona after he first failed to spot a fairly clear penalty by Valdés on Sorín in the opening minutes of their match, and then fell for an exaggerated fall by José Marí, sending off Márquez after showing him a second yellow card in the incident. Teixeira Vitienes was also criticised by both sides after waving away two penalty claims by Getafe and ignoring their pleas for Ronaldo's goal to be disallowed for hand ball, and then upsetting Luxemburgo by sending off Beckham. There again the Real Madrid coach had more important things to worry about a few hours later.

And finally González Vázquez was not the most popular person in Carlos Bianchi's books after he let the game over-run the five minutes added on, allowing Athletic Bilbao to score the equaliser in the 96th minute. A couple of minutes earlier Atlético Madrid's substitute keeper and a defender were deafened by a loud firecracker which fell in the visitors' goalmouth, and the coach felt that the game should have been brought to an end at that point. (06.12.05)