Sergio Aguero - 2016/17 performances

[Marvin]

Technically, you would not be fined for speeding over 50mph on a section of the M60, last year, because they forgot to implement the actual camera legislation.

I consciously put my foot down as a result for the next few weeks.

There are numerous aspects of life where people do things, thinking they can't or won't get caught, and then a queue of people willing to argue various shades of grey, when they have been caught with their pants down.

It's a problem in society, always someone else's fault.

I think you garner more respect in this world by admitting you fucked up and if Sergio did that with Pep, then our manager will always have his back.

But this is instinctive reaction to a player coming through the back of you. It's not premeditated. You're being a bit harsh

 

[Neville Kneville]

Technically, you would not be fined for speeding over 50mph on a section of the M60, last year, because they forgot to implement the actual camera legislation.

I consciously put my foot down as a result for the next few weeks.

There are numerous aspects of life where people do things, thinking they can't or won't get caught, and then a queue of people willing to argue various shades of grey, when they have been caught with their pants down.

It's a problem in society, always someone else's fault.

I think you garner more respect in this world by admitting you fucked up and if Sergio did that with Pep, then our manager will always have his back.

That's all well & true.

The point is that yet again, it seems that City are going to feel the full weight of the law, whilst others get away with it over & over again, & that yet again, it will be due to a referee blatanty lying in order to facilitate it.

They are stitching us up, irrespective of Aguero's guilt or innocence.

 

[andyhinch]

Embarrassed for some of the comments on here.

Aguero not only fucked up, he has let everyone down.

Thankfully, the referee didn't act upon it during the game, and we have those three points to show for it.

On an aside, you connect a full elbow with a face and there's no telling what damage it can cause, just because it didn't result in a Gary Mabbutt style incident, doesn't grant leniency.

Your easily embarrassed you'll get over it when you've been going for a few more years

 

[ayrshire_blue]

I think many of us are defending him because of who he is and his status at the club.

If it was Balotelli he'd been getting called out for all sorts on here because it fits with his character. He'd rightly be slated for his stupidity.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

But this is instinctive reaction to a player coming through the back of you. It's not premeditated. You're being a bit harsh

This is where I will completely disagree. Instinctive reaction? Sergio has clearly looked for it/knew Reid was coming/anybody who has played the game at any level would lean towards those visual traits.

The referee has the absolute convenience of being able to hide solely behind his word.

Sergio lost himself that luxury, as it's also on camera.

I never saw the incident live at the ground, and I'm following the play, the passage of the ball.

It can easily be argued the referee, at ground level, with the speed of the game and everything going on at eye level, missed it, even looking directly at the play in question/.

 

[M18CTID]

Aguero deserves a ban yes or no that's just an opinion, but blatant lies from the ref saying he never seen it,first thing the FA should do is ask WHY didn't you see it 'you was bloody looking at it' the phone calls have been made over the bank holiday and the stories are put together prior to the refs report being submited

Appreciate what you're saying but the question, if the ref saw it in it's entirety, should be "Why didn't you deem it worthy of action?" because even if a ref is in a lenient mood, like it or not it was a booking at the very least. No-one but Aguero knows whether he intended to do what he did but things like the clenched fist don't give a good impression and loads of players have been for stuff like this in the past when it's been impossible to glean whether it was intentional or not. If he gets banned, I don't have an issue with it. It's not often he loses it but he did on Sunday and we just have to accept whatever punishment gets dished out. My issue isn't to do with Aguero, Fellaini, and so-called agendas or witch hunts. It's something Dubai Blue touched on some pages back regarding scrutiny of such incidents in live games versus non-live 3pm Saturday kick-offs. There's no way you get the same level of scrutiny from pundits when it comes down to matches that aren't screened live. That's inconsistent, pure and simple. Thing is, it's almost like the TV companies and the pundits are doing the FA's job for them by highlighting these incidents when the real course of action should involve a panel of independent experts watching every minute of every game after each round of fixtures and picking out all incidents not seen by the officials that are worthy of retrospective action.

 

[CTID1988]

Blue tinted specs off, it was an elbow and he probably should be banned. The unfair part is that bogbrush does this every game and gets away with it.
Aguero has let the team down by acting out like that, hopefully he is pissed off at himself.
I agree with the post above though, if this wasnt a live game there would be nowhere near as much scrutiny

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Your easily embarrassed you'll get over it when you've been going for a few more years

38 years not enough, clearly...

 

[Matty]

My issue with this isn't did Aguero throw an elbow or not, I've seen the footage and I believe he's intentionally thrown his arm at Reid. It's a red card offence, and a 3 game ban. My issue is with the "retrospective" element of the potential punishment. This can only happen if the referee didn't actually see the incident. Now there's no way anyone can be in any doubt, when watching the footage back, that Andre Marriner definitely saw the incident, he's 10 yards away looking right at it. For him to claim he didn't see it is ridiculous, it's a joke, in fact it's dishonest. What he means is "I made a mistake". He saw it happen, but his misjudged it, as referees do time and again on all manner of decisions throughout a game. You can't have a referee, after the match, looking over all his decisions and going "got that one wrong, I'd better change what I think of it". You make your decision at the time and you live by it. I assume we now get a 4-1 win do we, as the linesman "misjudged" the Aguero offside and odds are he'd have scored? No, of course we don't, and rightly so. You see it, you make a decision, and that's it. You don't (or shouldn't) get to have a second chance at it days later. This is the FA, and the referees association, however, so we shouldn't expect anything other than them covering their own backs and making decisions they think will make them generally popular.

 

[SWP's back]

Embarrassed for some of the comments on here.

Aguero not only fucked up, he has let everyone down.

Thankfully, the referee didn't act upon it during the game, and we have those three points to show for it.

On an aside, you connect a full elbow with a face and there's no telling what damage it can cause, just because it didn't result in a Gary Mabbutt style incident, doesn't grant leniency.

Think it's more to do with consistency T. Take Fellani on Zabaleta, that's a far more dangerous and purposeful elbow, he then spat at Zabba on the ground and fuck all happened.

What's the point in being whiter than white and no one else being held to the same standards.