Madrid - Spanish football has always taken pride in avoiding the kind of match-fixing scandals that have so afflicted Italy and other countries.
No major players have ever been banned, let alone jailed, and no clubs have ever been relegated for fixing results.
There have occasionally been rumours and whispers of attempted bribery, but practically nothing has ever reached the public domain.
Until now, that is.
This week La Liga has been shaken up by two separate allegations of match-fixing.