White Stick Awards

It's holiday time, and referees were in a festive mood before the mini-break. Rodríguez Santiago could have shown red cards to Valencia's Del Horno and Albiol on Saturday for hard tackles on Real Madrid players, and although Marchena did get sent for an early bath, he could have gone much earlier. And Alvarez Izquierdo was even more magnanimous the following day, showing a red card to Almería's Juanito for a second bookable offence in the game at Gijón and then changing his mind and letting him off. It wasn't so much Christmas spirit though - he thought he had already booked him once but on checking his notes he realised that the first yellow card was for someone else! (23.12.08)

Name Games played Yellow cards Red cards Total
Iturralde González 9 57 6 63
González Vázquez 9 59 2 61
Medina Cantalejo 9 55 5 60
Ayza Gámez 9 52 6 58
Rubinos Pérez 9 52 3 55
Muñiz Fernández 9 50 2 52
Rodríguez Santiago 10 51 1 52
Clos Gómez 9 44 7 51
Teixeira Vitienes 9 44 5 49
Velasco Carballo 8 43 4 47