Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane has hit out at the ban handed to Gaston Sirino by the PSL’s disciplinary committee, saying that it lacks consistency in its rulings.
The committee banned the Sundowns winger for two games for slapping Dean Furman and Clayton Daniels during a match against SuperSport United in an MTN8 match in September 2019.
Sundowns and Mosimane have had their issues with the league’s DC in recent years after the delay in the Wayne Arendse’s case last season, which could have impacted their league title.
Mosimane says they will not appeal against the ban and the player deserved the punishment.
‘I will leave it to the legal guys because I’m going to talk from an emotional part and say the player is out now two games,’ said Mosimane as per Sowetan Live.
‘But somewhere somehow you say, “Are the two games fair?” Are you going to appeal because if you appeal you may get five? They’ll [PSL] think you don’t show humility and all that.
‘My thing is not about Sirino. Sirino, of course, let’s be honest‚ he’s also been naughty. I’m not promoting these things that he does‚ I’m not. And people don’t understand that. I don’t promote that.
‘He needs to go through that. When he kicked somebody at Maritzburg United and got a red card I said the referee, Victor Gomez, is right because he just went over the ball. And he must be sent out.’
‘We need consistency‚’ Mosimane said.
‘I saw [Samir] Nurkovic [of Kaizer Chiefs] kicking someone … I think it was [Thembinkosi] Lorch [Orlando Pirates] off the ball. He hacked him. What happened about that? Do you get what I’m saying?
‘There must be no special treatment and if we have to play without Sirino because he’s facing sanctions of doing one‚ two‚ three … I don’t have a problem with that.
‘But I’m saying there must be consistency because Sirino has been now sanctioned on footage of the incident that happened on the pitch because the referee punished him by giving a yellow card, but then they changed it and said, no, what the referee did was not enough.
‘I don’t blame the referee‚ he missed it. But if you bring things back from the video footage I will say where is your consistency? Are the games all on television? So those who are not on television they’re benefiting.
‘In my opinion you can’t have decisions that you took from the video from the match footage and judge on it if you don’t have consistency. Now you’re not fair to me because the one who’s not on television is benefiting.’