Pique cleared in referee spat

Spanish football authorities announced on Thursday they had cleared Barcelona defender Gerard Pique on a charge of accusing a referee of "premeditation" in handing him a red card, they said Thursday.
"The competition committee has decided to close the complaint of the referees' committee against Pique," an official at the Spanish Football Federation told AFP on Thursday.
The federation had already banned Pique for one match and fined him 600 euros ($785) after he made the accusation against the referee of a match against Sporting Gijon on March 3.

- Afp