Mark Clattenburg

lasereyes said:
Many on here were saying "happy with that" or "best of the bad lot" when Clattenburg was appointed for this game. As poor/corrupt as many of the others are, I found this unfathomable given he was in charge for two of our worst shaftings in recent memory (the Candlepool game + Spurs earlier this season). The guy is an out and out crook and always has been. The way he immediately pointed to the spot was almost compulsive - would have looked strange even for a stone-dead penalty. But for one as questionable as this, it really leaves little doubt that he was out to gift Spurs the game.

I also wouldnt put it past him to deliberately not book Toure early on as a smokescreen for fucking us later by booking Kompany (far more important yellow than Toure), the penalty, and several bogus offsides by his assistant. I am definitely not normally a conspiracy theory, but I am struggling mightily to come up with any other explanation for what I saw today.
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Compared to the shite we have suffered recently I thought Crappenberg would referee according to the black and white of the Laws of the Game. How naive of me! I think I will never learn that leopards are incapable of changing their spots, no matter how hard I wish for it!
 
happy said:
OK, even if we take the premise of not wanting to 'bite the hands that feeds you' (nonsense by the way, the exposure of a corrupt referee would be the biggest UK sport story and one of the biggest news stories of any year).

But let's suppose that this is the case and that all the UK journalists are xowed by the power of the Premier League, wouldn't there be a single German, Italian or Spanish journalist prepared to take on the evil empire/ Surely, these countries have a lot to gain from the implication of English football as corrupt?

What doe these people have to gain by maintaining their silence?
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So you genuinely believe that today and the countless other examples of wiggy's refereeing are just 'mistakes'?
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Compared to the shite we have suffered recently I thought Crappenberg would referee according to the black and white of the Laws of the Game. How naive of me! I think I will never learn that leopards are incapable of changing their spots, no matter how hard I wish for it!
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It's becoming harder and harder to accept. I know we are all a bit rose-tinted when it comes to City, but we are getting fucked over game-after-game. Over the past 2-3 months, I recall one major decision in our favour (out of play vs Everton) against probably a dozen against us.

Spurs are on the reverse run. Not just against us - every time I watch the highlights they are benefiting from favourable calls - mostly offsides. At least half a dozen spring to mind, most recently, the penalty that was actually offside vs. Norwich, and the "penalty" against Leicester in the Cup. Either their name is on the trophy or someone wants to screw over Arse real bad.
 
We're not really here said:
So you genuinely believe that today and the countless other examples of wiggy's refereeing are just 'mistakes'?
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I choose to believe that rather than all being part of some anti-City, pro-United conspiracy referees are people, subject to the same vagueries of opinion and ability to err as we all are. I don't know what inspired Clattenburg award the penalty, perhaps he genuinely hates City, perhaps his pre-match shower was the wrong temperature, maybe he's a racist....I don't know.

But, and here's the killer evidence. If he was corrupt then he would have to be the most mindblowingly, bewilderingly stupid person to walk the face of the planet given that his 'corrupt' act was witnessed by millions of people and that he chose to express his bias in the least subtle manner imaginable...a truly corrupt person would surely have at least attempted something with a little more guile?
 
lasereyes said:
It's becoming harder and harder to accept. I know we are all a bit rose-tinted when it comes to City, but we are getting fucked over game-after-game. Over the past 2-3 months, I recall one major decision in our favour (out of play vs Everton) against probably a dozen against us.

Spurs are on the reverse run. Not just against us - every time I watch the highlights they are benefiting from favourable calls - mostly offsides. At least half a dozen spring to mind, for instance the penalty which was actually offside against Swansea. Either their name is on the trophy or someone wants to screw over Arse real bad.
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A lot of posters on here will not recall the times before the RagDipperMeedya and their acolytes got into full throttle. There was only ever one team that MotD had ever heard of. The Arse? No. Burnley? Nope. Forest? No. Step up the Tottenham double winning squad. A cracking team that would have put five or six past either team today, but some engravings on the football wall never get erased.
 
We're not really here said:
I have been saying for years if anybody thinks there is no corruption in English football they are beyond naive. The game is bent at the very top why would it not be lower down the ladder? The PL is the world richest league, how can it be that there is not one example of corruption? If it happens in all sports why not football and why not in the league the whole world watches?
That was no mistake.
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You are my brother Dave, and I claim my £5
 
happy said:
If people genuinely believe that the game is corrupt then why bother watching it? If the fix is in as some are suggesting then football is little more than WWE Wrestling, a spectacle not a sport. We all get carried away and we're all disappointed but, and I hate to say this....our constant whinging about bad luck and bent refs all has more than a little whiff of Stretford about it.
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Try telling the Sheikh that. He knows.
 
happy said:
I choose to believe that rather than all being part of some anti-City, pro-United conspiracy referees are people, subject to the same vagueries of opinion and ability to err as we all are. I don't know what inspired Clattenburg award the penalty, perhaps he genuinely hates City, perhaps his pre-match shower was the wrong temperature, maybe he's a racist....I don't know.

But, and here's the killer evidence. If he was corrupt then he would have to be the most mindblowingly, bewilderingly stupid person to walk the face of the planet given that his 'corrupt' act was witnessed by millions of people and that he chose to express his bias in the least subtle manner imaginable...a truly corrupt person would surely have at least attempted something with a little more guile?
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But it gets washed over, like all the other refereeing mistakes, game after game , week after week, and these guys are trousering a small fortune
 
The thing about Crappenberg and today is that it's not an iffy moment. Not one of those where you see a fifty fifty of awards given and not given. It's so blatantly wrong, and he was so quick to award it, that it seems he was just waiting for the right moment and by the slimmest of chances, by the juxtaposition of two players within the space of approximately 5000 sqyds and he nearly pokes out his eye in the attempt to get whistle to mouth. I am about a dozen miles from The Etihad as I type this but the stench of a Fleetwood trawler is still reaching my nostrils.
 
happy said:
If people genuinely believe that the game is corrupt then why bother watching it? If the fix is in as some are suggesting then football is little more than WWE Wrestling, a spectacle not a sport. We all get carried away and we're all disappointed but, and I hate to say this....our constant whinging about bad luck and bent refs all has more than a little whiff of Stretford about it.
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happy said:
I think we've hit rock bottom.
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Does that mean everything will even it self out this season .
That's what I keep getting told .
Well the last 12 games should be all be City wins .
Thanks to luck even itself out .
Ha ha ha
 
BucksBlue said:
So far Alan Sugar, Collymore, Ladyman, Sky and other City haters have declared it rightly was not a penalty.
Any news from Howard Webb and Graham Poll yet?
Clattenburg is beyond contempt and should be forced to do community service in prison uniform as punishment.
Video technology needed to stop such crimes.
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  1. City Watch ‏@City_Watch 7 mins7 minutes ago
    Former ref Graham Poll: "Mark Clattenberg broke the golden rule of officiating when he gave Tottenham Hotspur a penalty. He guessed."


  2. City Watch ‏@City_Watch 6 mins6 minutes ago
    Poll: "Any argument of whether it was inside the box was irrelevant. It just wasn't handball and Clattenburg was wrong."
 
bluwes said:
But it gets washed over, like all the other refereeing mistakes, game after game , week after week, and these guys are trousering a small fortune
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Absolutely right. There's no scrutiny within the public domain of the right kind. You email the FA and PiGMOL to draw attention to a poor performance or where a referee and his assistants get it completely wrong, and it's swept under the nearest square foot of Axminster. They are above any criticism and nothing seems to be done to rectify glaringly substandard performances. At best they are shunted off to another league for a couple of matches and then the likes of Jones and Attwell are back among the throng, strutting about football grounds with ne'er one jot improvement in their performances. With little apparently done to improve things, it makes me wonder whether those governing the game are more than happy with the outcomes.
 
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