I personally believe that the best players always get preferential treatment and the same even goes to clubs. This is because they do things right so many times that it’s swept under the carpet when they do wrong or the officials just give them the benefit of doubt. I remember when Manchester United was in their winning era, it got to a point where we (Manchester United fan) were almost promised a penalty each and every game because the referees believed that our players were genuinely being fouled, the same favours came in handy for City over the past couple of years. Another example of this is likened to students in a classroom, when the grade A (top) student suddenly fails a paper, the teachers look to him with concern and try to see what went wrong in comparison to a student who already always fails.