While watching the EPL last season i noticed how good the referees were compared to their colleagues in La Liga and how the English FA was cracking down on the divers.

The referees are a lot better in the premiership. Out of all the major domestic leagues in Europe Spain would be ranked the lowest. They are too easily influenced by rowdy crowds and of the theatrics. There are fouls in la liga which are just fouls but out comes the yellow card. The zero toleration from the referees infuriates me.

You really have to be an arch-angel like Real Madrid’s Raul to never get booked.

As much as I love to see there styles I have to say the South American influence on La Liga has certainly contributed to the poor standards of refereeing. When I see brief glimpses of south American games it seems normal to roll over between 6 and 8 times when you are fouled. When they move to Spain and do it week in week out, booking the player because a formality to the referee. This didn’t use to happen but it has become a big problem of the modern game.

It certainly doesn’t say much for the referees training process in Spain but i wouldn’t impose the entire blame on the referees as quite frankly the players in la liga make the job difficult for them. Instead of just rolling around they should get up and get on with the game. However, referees need to learn not to conned by the common theatrics.

Although the officiating in the premiership is still better even they are now buying into the theatrics of players as well but the most obvious divers are caught(Drogba, Reyes, C. Ronaldo just to name a few) but to me it seems that EPL is too violent, they don’t call it properly as compared to La liga where creative players are protected by the referees but this is exploited by the divers.

Overall the nation feels the game should be played that way, and they generally do a good job at officiating the way the English want. They don’t make that many very bad calls, nor do they let the crowd or players influence them much.