If fans expect the handball furore stirring up the Premier League to calm down, then —judging by La Liga — they should think again.
The new rules in force this season in England were introduced in Spain at the start of last season and it has been chaos ever since.
By March last season in La Liga, more penalties had been awarded for handball than in the entire previous campaign.
The increase meant that the head of the referees’ technical committee, Carlos Velasco Carballo, had to try to clarify things.