Madrid sports tabloid Marca has drawn up an alternative Liga table, taking into count the mistakes made by the referees this season.
1. Barcelona 50 (=)
2. Valencia 36 (+2)
3. Real Madrid 35 (-3)
4. Málaga 35 (+4)
5. Villarreal 34 (+1)
6. Sevilla 32 (-6)
7. Atlético de Madrid 31 (=)
8. Deportivo de La Coruña 30 (=)
9. Athletic de Bilbao 27 (+1)
10. Almería 24 (+3)
11. Osasuna 24 (+11)
12. Recreativo de Huelva 21 (+1)
13. Racing de Santander 20 (-5)
14. Sporting de Gijón 20 (-4)
15. Valladolid 20 (-3)
16. Numancia 20 (=)
17. Betis 19 (-2)
18. Espanyol 17 (+2)
19. Getafe 16 (-5)
20. Mallorca 14 (=)
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Referee mistakes reduce Barcelona lead
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It's unclear how they came to this table. I guess they took into account penaties who were unjustly awarded or not awarded. Maybe goals who were scored on/off side.
The influence of a red card on a game is for example difficult to value.
But given that this is a Madrid paper, you can at least be quite sure that they were severe on the Barcelona favours and less severe on the Madrid ones, so you could say that without the Spanish referees the gap between Barcelona and Madrid would be "at least" 15 points.
lol Osasuna +11...
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Kinda feel bad for Osasuna now.
shouldnt it be "increase barca lead?" we lead madrid by 12 points dont we? in this new table it is 15 points..
Depends how you look on it, Harshawardhan. I meant: because of the mistakes of the referees we have now less advantage than we would have had without them (because the two team that are now on 12 points, Sevilla and Madrid, would lose points while we stay at the same number).
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