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El clásico could be postponed after Spanish clubs threatened to go on strike over La Liga's television rights deal.

Spain's current carve-up of television money sees the majority of the cash go to Real Madrid and Barcelona, with each club able to negotiate their own individual deals.

Sick of the arrangement favouring the nation's 'big two', the LFP (Professional Football League) two weeks ago gave the Spanish government 15 days to approve a newly-proposed law regulating any future sales of television rights.

The new regulations would mean that the league would have to agree to collective bargaining, like the English Premier League, but with the government reluctant to get involved, clubs are threatening to strike - with the clásico weekened targeted for biggest impact.

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and their own league's duopoly, with the angry majority now willing to use strong-arm tactics to get a bigger piece of the pie.

Minister for Sport Miguel Cardenal had promised a resolution in November, but after several months of inaction the league's president Javier Tebas has called an extraordinary general meeting for March 4 in which strike action will be discussed, while sources in Spain have told MirrorFootball that the weekend of March 23 would be most likely to be chosen for the strike.

Tebas has just returned from Argentina, and will now push the government again for a response.

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