Aguero: Harder for foreign stars to win pens

[LeTallecWiz]

From Footy365.com:

Aguero was coy when asked if he felt his side were not getting the decisions but more forthcoming on the disparity between nationalities after a game in which Zabaleta and Carlos Tevez had penalty appeals turned down.

"I try not to get involved with problems involving referees," the Argentina international said.
"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 just keep on playing our game."

Asked if foreign players have it tougher than English players, he said: "Yes, always. It happens everywhere.

"There is a little bit of privilege with players who come from that country, but that is normal.
"We just play our game, and the referee's job is to know who is tricking him and who is not."
Pushed further on whether referees are a bit suspicious of foreign players, Aguero added: "Maybe, yes. It can happen, but I don't think it did 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."

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/8129287/Aguero-Harder-for-foreign-stars

What's interesting here is in the comment section (Binny - where can we confirm the below?):

Most penalties won since 2002 / 2003:
14 - Andy Johnson
11- Young, Bent
10 Agbonlahor, Crouch
9 - Gerrard

 

[FoxForceFive]

It's blindingly obvious that's the case.

 

[keniget]

Yup. I agree.

 

[Hansern]

Suarez won the most penalties last season though. (4)

Hasnt been the case this season mind, and reading Polls comments today just amazed me.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Suarez won the most penalties last season though. (4)

Hasnt been the case this season mind, and reading Polls comments today just amazed me.

Pulis is a clown, when crouch handled it against city he changed his tune.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

“As a subject it is not worth going down because we have known for quite a few years there are plenty of players diving and, you have to say, particularly foreign players.”
Slurr Alex

 

[Silver Sean]

Why doesn't one single journalist ever have the balls to take Ferguson on over his blatant lies?

 

[Insignificance]

Why doesn't one single journalist ever have the balls to take Ferguson on over his blatant lies?

In his mind he is not lying. He is Scottish, hence every fucking player is a foreigner to him ;-)

 

[jexykrodic]

Ferguson needs to be called out for blatant racism.

 

[jimmy]

I believe most of the top attacking players - forwards, wingers, AM's etc - in the PL are foreigners. It can be expected for them to be in the focus when it comes to winning penalties - both genuinely and cheating simply because they are the ones who have the ball most of the time in the opponent's penalty area.
E.g.:
MC: Tevez, Aguero, Balotelli, Dzeko, Silva, Nasri, Garcia, Toure
MU: All of their's are good decent honest Englishmen...
Chelsea: Torres, Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Ramires, Moses, Maluda, Marin
Arsenal: Podolski, Giroud, Chamakh, Cazorla, Gervinho, Arteta, Arshavin etc.