The referees' fight against the unilateral decisions of the disciplinary committee continued on for another week, with another round of reports contravening federation guidelines (see last week's report for more). Once again most of the yellow cards dished out at the weekend will be cancelled due to the vague nature of the referees' comments, and there are many criticisms that their actions are making a mockery of the league.

Whilst having some sympathy for this view, we do feel that the authorities are taking little action to sort this out. In other countries bookings cannot be cancelled without the agreement of the referee himself, and this is not the case in Spain.

Whatever the case, players took the field this weekend who should have been banned, and that is adulterating the competition at a stage where the smallest change can affect the final outcome of the league positions. It is unlikely that anything drastic will happen before next weekend, but after that the league takes a brief recess for international fixtures before returning for the last two rounds of matches. For god's sake let's get things sorted out before then! (22.05.07)