White Stick Awards

Rookie referee Delgado Ferreiro came in for some stick this weekend after awarding a couple of penalties in the match between Barcelona and Celta. The first was for the visitors when Angel fell in the area, but television replays suggested that Oleguer and Gio had tackled each other and the full back only tripped over his own feet. And then he gave one at the other end for a rigorous foul by Tamas on Gio, and once again replays showed it was a good few inches outside of the area. Delgado admitted in the press a couple of days later that maybe he was wrong, but the decisions had to be made on the spur of the moment and he challenged anyone who criticised referees to give it a try to see if they could do better. (30.01.07)

Name Games played Yellow cards Red cards Total
Velasco Carballo 11 86 8 94
Iturralde González 11 72 9 81
Muñiz Fernández 12 70 6 76
Turienzo Alvarez 11 70 5 75
González Vázquez 11 68 4 72
Lizondo Cortés 10 62 9 71
Daudén Ibáñez 11 64 6 70
Pérez Lasa 11 64 4 69
Rubinos Pérez 8.3 57 10 67
Pérez Lima 10 61 5 66