All eyes were on Mejuto González, who was given the onerous responsibility of refereeing the derby match between Barcelona and Real Madrid. Mejuto is considered to be the best in Spain at the moment (he has been chosen to go to the Euro 2008 finals), and his performance was totally correct (unless you are a fervent supporter of one or the other side, in which case he should have given a penalty on Iniesta / Robinho).

Not so good though Paradas Romero, who missed a penalty for hands by Zaragoza's Ayala and then ruled out a good goal by Oliveira at the other end (and subsequently sent off Valencia coach Koeman for protesting!), or Pérez Lasa, who was rather harsh in sending off Almería's Crusat but then let off Felipe Melo. Atlético coach Javier Aguirre probably wasn't over the moon about Fernández Borbolán either after he showed red cards to Agüero and Pernía, but he didn't complain. (26.12.07)