White Stick Awards

No doubt about the refereeing decision which got most coverage this week! Unless you happen to live on a planet far. far away, you will undoubtedly have either seen or read about Daudén Ibáñez's decision to rule out a goal by Real Madrid's Robben and allow Getafe to take a quick free kick. The six Madrid players celebrating down by the corner flag didn't realise what was going on until too late, and then it was a Keystone Cops chase to try to stop Uche from scoring what proved to be the winning goal. Nobody (except maybe technical director Mijatovic) criticised Daudén though: Raúl was clearly in an offside position when he intervened in the build up, and Belenguer was within his rights to take the quick free kick after the referee had given him the ok. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but the result throws the league title race wide open once again! (26.02.08)

PS Congrats to Clos Gómez, the first referee to pass the hundred card mark this season in our chart.

Name Games played Yellow cards Red cards Total
Clos Gómez 14 92 10 102
Iturralde González 15.5 87 10 97
Lizondo Cortés 12 86 8 94
Muñiz Fernández 14 88 6 94
Pérez Lasa 14 81 9 90
Velasco Carballo 15 83 6 89
Undiano Mallenco 15 86 3 89
Daudén Ibáñez 13 85 3 88
Alvarez Izquierdo 14 76 12 88
Rubinos Pérez 14 78 7 85