This means Barça's scheduled game of that day with Valencia (currently in 4th), will have to wait until the season may already be decided. Of course, la Liga could be close enough by then for it still to be undefined, the drama stretched thinner and tauter after all the other contests of 2010-2011.
The next game will be the April 6 match in the Champions league with Ukraine powerhouse Shakhtar. It's a matter of weeks until the two showdowns against Real Madrid in the Madrid clasico and Copa del Rey final.
The current money clash between la Liga's top money teams and domestic TV is over the law that one game be broadcast on a free channel per week. The top teams don't want to give it away to the public anymore. Try to watch a free stream of a game online and you'll find out how vigorously they protect their 'property.'
The teams are in direct disagreement with parliament and the law providing for football fans to see some of their great national pride gratis. It's equivalent to if the music industry was trying to enact a law that removed music from the radio unless you paid for a sirius subscription.
To see how this will resolve has the same butterfly-winged political scent of many social and cultural issues of privatization vs. business. Are big money mandates to legislators taking the air out of the ball again?
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