Roberto Carlos, what on earth did you do? The popular Real Madrid full back was given his marching orders just twenty five minutes in to the "derby" game at Barcelona, leaving his side with ten men for three quarters of the match. Roberto had already had a dubious penalty awarded against him and then got himself booked for arguing, but according to referee Medina Cantalejo's report, just a few minutes later he strode up to him and his assistant, pointing his finger at both and saying "you and you are a couple of sh*ts!" Red card and goodnight! The player himself though said that his comment was "you and you must think we are a bunch of sh*ts" (our translation), which is not at all the same thing. Only a lip-reader knows who was telling the truth!

Other than Roberto Carlos there were only two more red cards this weekend, both for Málaga players. Juan Rodríguez was the first to go for a second bookable offence midway through the second half, and he was followed by Chengue Morales, who was shown a straight red for kicking an opponent near the end. They will be joined on the sidelines by seven other players who will pick up a one match ban for accumulation of yellow cards, including Gaspar (Alavés), Pablo (Atlético), Fleurquín (Cádiz) and Ponzio (Zaragoza) who all picked up their tenth booking, and Contra and Gavilán (Getafe) and Cani (Zaragoza), all of whom were given their fifth. (04.04.06)

PS Juan Rodríguez was let off one of his yellow cards by the appeals committee, and therefore will be available to play this weekend.