Luis García Plaza continues to wonder why the referees expel. Against Valencia he felt in his flesh again what happened to him in the Nuevo Mirandilla de Cádiz. Second red of the season for protesting, without insults involved, and with the feeling that other coaches on the bench are allowed what he is not.
Figueroa Vázquez, the referee against Valencia, reflected in the minutes that he expelled Luis García Plaza with a direct red card for the following reason: “For leaving his bench throwing a bottle of water on the ground, gesturing with his arms and loudly addressing me saying that’s a card, that’s a card.”
The Mallorca coach acknowledges being “sunk” as well as outraged even with the passing of the hours. After the match against Valencia it was very clear: “My red card? I don’t think I deserve it. It’s not normal, but you have to accept it, I apologize… But I’ve even seen Cholo leave his technical area, Xavi hit someone in the chest and tell him what a shame…”.
The inexplicable punishment of two games of sanction
What Luis García Plaza does not quite understand is that he is suspended for two games for a protest in which there were no insults. It already happened to him after the red card in Cádiz and now he is aware that it will happen to him this week after the expulsion against Valencia. Four months ago, the club already appealed the red without result and now the same thing will happen.
Alfonso Pérez Burrull, former referee and commentator for Radio MARCA, partially agrees with the Madrid coach: “Luis García is partially right. There are coaches who do more than others, but he has been very nervous”. Another referee analyst, Pável Fernández, is of the opinion that “the coaches are treated unequally”.
Luis García already showed his discomfort a few weeks ago when he publicly made it clear that the fact that Mallorca is one of the few teams not to complain about arbitrations in social media didn’t mean they were “assholes”.
