VAR, "picaresque" and a lot of "tension": the reasons why up to five times more people are sent off in the League than in the Premier

There is no day without a bunch of expelled in the League, five last weekend, red cards in the wind out of habit, although the data warns.

The extraordinary happens in Spain, by comparison with the rest of the great championships, but also with its own past.

On matchday 23 there are already 94 times that a First Division team did not finish with all 11 players.

In all of last year that happened five times less, the same as in the 2019/2020 season... In the Premier League, at this point, there are only 19 expelled.

29 in the Bundesliga, 40 in Calcio, 71 in Ligue 1...

The disciplinary phenomenon worries.

Although the reasons may not seem obvious.

The Technical Committee of Referees of the Spanish Federation, consulted by this newspaper, does not enter into comparisons with other championships.

And several former collegiate polled prefer not to answer, as if the shadow of the suspicion of the

had made an entire group nervous.

So why are more sent off in the League?

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Gil Marín again charges against arbitration and demands that the Negreira Case be reached to the bottom: "It is unfortunate!"

"There is no clear explanation, I keep thinking about it," admits

, who keeps track of the expulsions: with 0.41 red cards per game, the League is on its way to surpassing its historical record, that of 149 in 2009. /2010, 81 of them direct then.

The former international referee, before showing several of the reasons, goes to a close case.

During Tottenham-Chelsea last weekend, the VAR corrected a red card for

for "a slap" to a rival.

In the derby, Correa's elbow

was not reviewed by

.

"Where is the limit of violence and simulation?" he wonders.

The Cantabrian referee finds football reasons for the phenomenon and recalls a rule that changed everything for him: when the requirement that the ball had to leave the area before any player could touch it was eliminated.

«20 meters were gained, less is taken in length and the pressure is increased.

That causes more fouls, many from behind, stomping on the one he receives from behind.

And increase the cards, ”reasons Pérez Burrull.

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That also puts the influence of the VAR on the increase in protests, to "insist that absolutely everything be reviewed."

also influences

, who speaks of the enormous influence of "the picaresque".

«It is not a coincidence, the statistics must be respected.

But the Premier has nothing to do with the League.

Spanish and Latino soccer in general is hotter.

There are even differences between refereeing a match in San Sebastián or Bilbao and Malaga, for example”, reasons the former linesman.

«Sports education is not the same, it is not a matter of being a worse or a better referee.

We are a country of tricks.

You try to deceive your rival and then you hug him », he denounces.

“There are too many cards, it is ejected too quickly.

The first yellow is drawn very soon.

I don't know if there have been instructions in this sense, I'm afraid so, "warns another historical,

, of the thin skin of the national braids.

Matchday 9 was the only one in which all the First Division teams finished with 11. «It also has to do with the formation of arbitration.

In England, more contact has always been allowed ”, Guerrero contributes in this sense.

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Pérez Burrull also values ​​both the physical form and the preparation of the Spanish referee compared to that of the Premier, where there is no age limit, and the opposite effect that can happen in terms of the number of cards: «The more prepared you are , the more you know and the more capacity you have.

And you see more things to sanction ».

And if all this were not enough... «Frankly yes, I detect more tension.

We are all human, the referee is no stranger to noise, he is not in a bubble, "says Rafa Guerrero about the increasing pressure on arbitration, complaints, communications here and there and even more mistrust since the Negreira case broke out.

Pérez Burrull agrees: «The decibels of public debate and social networks are increasing.

And the suspicions.

And respect is lost.

When you are a referee, you are more defensive.

You just have to look at Gil Manzano's grimace on Saturday in the derby, from the start.

At halftime there were almost as many cards as fouls.

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