BarcelonaThe owner of Elche, the leader of the First Division with only 9 points – one win and six draws in 23 games – has lost his role. After the painful defeat in added time against Betis (2-3) this Friday, there were insults and threats to the refereeing quartet. The angry reaction of the owner of the illegal entity came after the Galician referee Javier Iglesias Villanueva sent off three Elche players – one of them on the bench – and whistled three penalties against them. The last maximum penalty came in the last minute of the clash and was the definitive 2-3 that condemned the Valencians to another defeat. While the club’s communication department was preparing a message of complaint on social networks, the owner of Elx went down to look for the members. “Please, we want to be treated with equality and respect. No more and no less than the rest. We are a historic and centenary club. It’s the least we deserve.” published the entity on Twitter, shortly after the Catalan goalkeeper Edgar Badia bit his tongue in the interview on television with rights after the match.