White Stick Awards

Celta put a large part of the blame for their elimination from the Spanish Cup on referee Pérez Lasa. Pérez ruled out a late equaliser from a quickly taken Trashorras free kick as he was still writing the incident in his note-book and hadn't watched the play! With referees wearing ear-pieces to communicate with their officials, there were questions why he couldn't just ask the fourth referee to make a note of the bookings? Plenty of time afterwards if you want to write your auto-biography!

On Saturday Barcelona were given a helping hand by Paradas Romero, who waved away claims by hosts Sporting for offside after Pedro scored the only goal. It was borderline, but he was a foot or so offside when he set off on his run. Paradas also turned down a penalty appeal after Márquez brought down Bilic early on. (02.02.10)

Name Games played Yellow cards Red cards Total
Rubinos Pérez 13 77 12 89
Muñiz Fernández 12 79 9 88
Turienzo Alvarez 14 84 4 88
Pérez Burrull 13 84 2 86
González Vázquez 13 81 2 83
González González 14 71 11 82
Delgado Ferreiro 14 77 5 82
Estrada Fernández 13 75 4 79
Velasco Carballo 12 66 8 74
Clos Gómez 12 68 5 73