A SPANISH court will now not decide until tomorrow (Thursday) whether a planned strike that would see the last two weeks of La Liga and the Spanish Cup final called off is legal.
The players' union announced last week that its members would begin industrial action indefinitely from this Saturday in protest against a new collective bargaining ruling on television rights. The league body declared that illegal and the national court sat this morning to discuss it before announcing a decision would be adjourned until tomorrow.
If the strike is called off, Barcelona could become champions for the fifth time in seven years with victory away to Atletico Madrid, last season's champions. The Catalan club are also set to play in the cup final against Athletic Bilbao at the end of the month.
Spain is among the last European countries to move towards a collective arrangement for distributing TV money, with the current set-up of marketing rights individually heavily favouring Barcelona and Real Madrid. The hope is the new arrangement will create a more level playing field, helping the poorer teams in the league. The proposed new set-up would still be weighted towards the richest and most successful clubs but to a lesser extent.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article