Manchester City better put a preservation order on Serge Aguero!! He takes City to another level, without him and they do struggle slightly.
It's great that he's penalised Shawcross, but when he does it against Utd or Liverpool or any of the other top sides will be the day he gets my respect. It's easy to do it to Stoke. But that's the thing though isn't it? We all know it won't happen. He's been getting away with it for ages and so did Skrtel.
That may well be the case. But I don't see other referees pulling Shawcross up for it. I don't care who it is that Dean is giving penalties against, he still gets my immense respect for being the one referee who is open to giving them.
Why the hell was Sterling marking Shawcross anyway? And he wasn't looking at the ball at all - it was a definite penalty.
There will be dozens of Pens a game. I agree it needs to be cut out, but what sterling did there was minimal. The only clear pen in this game is the Allen incident.
Which I would be absolutely fine with me. As Tom says, players would soon cut it out. I do agree though that the Allen incident was a penalty.