Aguero Hand on Shoulder

[baggiebloke]

Looked a fuss over nothing. A completely inoffensive tap on the linos shoulder.

No one would have said a thing of it had been a bloke. Utterly harmless but PC brigade must have made Beeb highlight it. 
By the reaction anyone would have thought he’d had a game of tit cricket!

Well. Credit to the lino then.

Augero shouldn’t have done it. It was a shade patronising, but highlighting it is much ado about nothing.

A swift booking and getting on with play would have been the best course of action for sure.  I think any media reaction would have been lessened if that had happened.  The fact he 'got away with one' fuels the fire for the media and two Bob hacks like me to raise it for discussion.

I don't know aguero or his mindset for doing it,  nor do I know his views on women and his views on women officials in the men's game but I wanted to raise it out of a sheer nosiness to see what the characters on here would say about it. I haven't been disappointed.

For many it's a non event.  A tap on the shoulder of an official who's gender is irrelevant.  Get on with the game.  For others it's a respect for women thing. Massey is an established and well respected female official with a professional no fuss approach and deserves better than the patronising arm on the shoulder that (for me as I watched) threw back to a bygone era of poorer treatment of women.

Don't touch the officials or you risk a booking.  
Don't touch a female official as a male player or you risk looking like a knob as well as a booking.

I feel used and exploited now.

You just wanted us...for our brains.