Aguero: "Refs favour English".

[mat]

I'll give it till end of play for the FA to charge him and ban him for 4 matches.

 

[Anonymous]

mark halsey made a dubious call, but i think we were compensated just right with zabaleta's handballing in the box.

That wasn't a pen for me, Zabba's slid to stop the cross and the guys hit it behind him.
No intent.

Wasn't a penalty for me either , i agree with your view of it , there was no intent ....

as for their penalty , very minimal contact , if any , from Zabaleta , and a highly dubious penalty award ...... although Zabaleta didn't really need to risk anything , David Silva was only a yard or two away and would have covered.

 

[Ragnarok]

I'd like to see Mancini make a few 'off the cuff' comments about the refereeing decisions that seem to be constantly going against us. We beat Fulham so it wouldn't come across as sour grapes, and it might just put a bit of a spotlight on some of the referees that we've got coming up. Lets use some of the shite decisions we've had so far this season to our advantage.

Mancini has already done that.

"There were a lot of mistakes in the past four games. We accept this, but we're not happy. We can do nothing, only continue to play.

"Against Fulham here it is always difficult. They are a good team, have good players, a good manager. This pitch is always tough for us but the problem is we were 1-0 down and I don't know why because the penalty was not a penalty."


"Sometimes it is a penalty but the referee is there to take a decision. Sometimes he does well, sometimes he can do bad."

Despite gaining the crucial win, Mancini says the decision to award Fulham their first half penalty is the latest in a string of major decisions that have gone against his side.

"If we go to watch all our last three games, against Stoke it was handball. I don't know why the referee that was behind didn't give it. Against Arsenal there was one penalty [we should have been awarded].

 

[Tricky_Trev]

32-match ban for Sergio. Nothing for Bacon Face.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Wouldn't it be great if sport was just, well sport. You know, the best man wins, no bias, no outside interference. It could happen you know.

 

[Akira]

Wouldn't it be great if sport was just, well sport. You know, the best man wins, no bias, no outside interference. It could happen you know.

You can't do that with humans. That's how the world works, sorry to burst your bubble.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Wouldn't it be great if sport was just, well sport. You know, the best man wins, no bias, no outside interference. It could happen you know.

You can't do that with humans. That's how the world works, sorry to burst your bubble.

The Modern Olympics seem to have managed it for a considerable period of time. Sorry to puncture your condescending nature.

 

[cityblues82]

If you read the BBC report, it shows that the reporter asks the questions about bias and Aguero is just responding. The headline makes it sound like Aguero is having a dig, which isn't the case. This will no doubt get blown out of all proportion now

 

[bluenova]

Unfortunately this is the kind of quote that the media will jump on and spin the wrong way every time, and know one will ever bother to really find out what he said. They'll just remember the headline and bring it up in arguments.

You need to read the whole quote to see that he's not saying anything controversial, but take out a sentence and all of the sudden he's a whiny foreigner with a prejudice against the locals.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/sep/30/manchester-city-fulham-premier-league

Asked if foreign players find life harder than English players in the Premier League when it came to officials' decisions, Agüero was clear. "Yes. Always," he said. "But it happens everywhere [in the world]. There is a little bit of privilege with players who come from that country. That is normal. We just play our game, and the referee's job is to know who is tricking him and who is not."

I don't know if Kun being foreign had anything to do with the terrible decisions Halsey made, it's possible I suppose, but I think it's more likely that he's just a biased c*nt like a lot of other people out there who have an almost unhealthy dislike for City.

With Suarez I think the fact he's foreign does give him more negative headlines than Rooney, Gerrard and Young, because those three can and do dive with the best of them. They're England players so they might get the benefit of the doubt and the press probably does take it easier on them. But Suarez is such a slimeball and he goes down so theatrically every. Single. Time. that absolutely no one except Liverpool fans can take him seriously. With a track record like his, even if he was English he wouldn't be getting penalties.

Worth a reply just for quoting the source - which is clearly nothing like as sensational as the headlines elsewhere. No wonder so many footballers give such dull interviews when intelligent comments like this are taken out of context.

As for the penalties. Four possibles on Saturday and I wouldn't have given any - but any one of them could have been - especially as the ref has a split second to make a decision when we get to review endless angles.

Tevez's spin reminded me of Ashley Young's exaggerated spin at the end of last season, Zabba wasn't a deliberate handball and his own claim was almost certainly accidental. Riise clearly dived, but with Zabba's hand across him can we really be sure it didn't look like a foul in real time? Referee's almost certainly are prejudiced against certain players (rightly in some cases), but again conspiracy theories are as exaggerated as a typical Suarez penalty claim.

 

[Plain Speaking]

There is a BBC report about it:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19783309" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19783309</a>
"Sergio Aguero believes English players get better treatment from referees than their foreign counterparts.
The Manchester City forward, 24, scored the equaliser in the 2-1 victory over Fulham - where fellow Argentines Pablo Zabaleta and Carlos Tevez had penalty appeals turned down.
Asked if foreign players have it tougher than English players, he said: "Yes, always. It happens everywhere.
"There's a little bit of privilege with players who come from that country."
Asked if he thought referees were suspicious of foreign players, Aguero added: "Maybe, yes. It can happen, but I don't think it does here.
"If it does, it's not good for anyone.
"Here in England, there are almost as many foreign players as English players and it's not right that some have a privilege that others don't."
Meanwhile, the Argentine shared the same view as his manager Roberto Mancini in believing that a penalty should not have been awarded for Zabaleta's trip on Fulham full-back John Arne Riise. Mladen Petric scored from the spot to give the Cottagers the lead.
"I try not to get involved with problems involving referees," added the City striker.
"There will always be mistakes for any team and he got the decision [on the Fulham penalty] wrong but that can happen in any game.
"All we can do is not let that get to us and keep on playing our game."
Aguero's comments come a week after Steven Gerrard and Glen Johnson said their Uruguayan Liverpool team-mate Luis Suarez was a victim of his own reputation and was not being treated fairly by referees.
Suarez, 25, had a penalty appeal turned down in the 2-1 loss to Manchester United on 23 September. The forward has not won a spot-kick since the 2-1 defeat by Arsenal in March.
"It's down to referees to not judge him. I think even when Luis does get blatant penalties, now he doesn't get them," said Reds captain Gerrard. "

Sergio's comments seem fair enough I tried to include the following comment in the blog below but the BBC havent allowed it!:

"Why has the author of this BBC article not put their name?
The article refers to "Zabletta's trip" yet the BBC's own review of the match said the following "There was minimal contact from Zabaleta's hand on Riise's midriff as the Fulham defender cut into the area, but it was enough to send Riise tumbling to the ground "
The BBC MOTD decided not to discuss the penalty incident because "the referee, Halsey, had a tough week" also not mentioned were several blatant Fulham fouls in the penalty area.
There is a huge anti Man City Bias within the BBC. "