REGIONAL PREFERENTE
Referee threatens to send players off for speaking Basque
The threat was made by the match official Manuel Sarrión González at a Regional Preferente (fifth tier game) game in Idiazabal as they faced Elgoibar.
Update:
The president of Idiazabal KE Matías Aranburu spoke to reporters post game and affirmed that "before the game the match official told us that he didn't want to hear a single word of Basque during the game, that he understood a word or two but wouldn't be able to pick-up on insults or unsavoury language". I tried to explain to him that here, we all speak Basque and that he'd be able to pick-up any discourteous comments but he was having none of it" lamented Aranburu.