The Spanish FA has punished Betis with two home games behind closed doors and awarded their game against Athletic to the visitors, confirming the scoreline of 1-2 prevailing before an incident forced the referee to signal the end.

With 23 minutes remaining, a 40-year-old Betis fan threw a full plastic bottle in Athletic’s keeper Armando’s face.

The Bask goalie suffered a deep cut and an injury to the left eye, which doctors fear may lose its function due to the detachment of the retina.

The fans helped the guards and the police catch the perpetrator, who was arrested and released on 3000 euros bail. Betis play bazaar hoped the FA would enable them to play the remaining 23 minutes of the game, but the authorities would not heed their pleas remembering last year’s incident in which the former Sevilla’s coach Juande Ramos was also hit with a bottle thrown from the stands.

The perpetrator of that incident will likely be sentenced just to a hefty fine since Ramos was not seriously injured. The recent bottle-thrower may be looking at a prison sentence should Armando lose the sight in the injured eye.

Francesco Totti prefers Champions League to scudetto

If he could chose, Roma’s captain Francesco Totti would rather win the Champions’ League than the Italian league, since an European club trophy is what is missing from his trophy room.

“To win a title would be special because it would mean overtaking Inter, but I would prefer the Champions League as I have never won an international trophy at club level. Who knows, maybe it would also boost my chances of achieving the Golden Ball. Still, if the performance at the European Championship turns out to be decisive for the Golden Ball, then I will not win it because I’m not going back to the national team,” said the forward who has not played for the Azzurri after the victorious World Cup in Germany.

On Roma’s path to the European title lies, lest we forget, Manchester United.