In the summer of 2008, Clattenburg was appointed to referee that year's FA Community Shield, with Dave Richardson and Ian Gosling assisting and Andre Marriner acting as fourth official. However, Clattenburg was later suspended from refereeing, pending an investigation into alleged debts incurred by companies to which he was connected.The Shield match between Portsmouth and Manchester United took place at Wembley Stadium with Peter Walton as the replacement referee.
Following the investigation into his personal life and business debts, the referees' governing body dismissed Clattenburg, citing a breach of contract. He denied all the allegations and appealed the decision.On 18 February 2009 the Professional Game Match Officials Board reinstated Clattenburg as a Select Group referee. However, he had to serve an eight-month suspension, starting from his original suspension date of 6 August 2008. Upon his return from suspension on the last day of the Premier League season, Clattenburg refereed a fixture between Manchester City and Bolton Wanderers — his only domestic appointment of that season.
In 2007, three years after his Premier League debut, Clattenburg came in for arguably his fiercest criticism of his refereeing following a Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool. The first notable incident involving Clattenburg was the award of a penalty kick for an apparent professional foul by Everton's Tony Hibbert on Liverpool's Steven Gerrard. Clattenburg initially took out his yellow card, seemingly to book Hibbert, but after an interaction, albeit brief, with Gerrard, Clattenburg changed his mind and showed Hibbert a red card. He later elected not to dismiss Dirk Kuyt for a waist-high lunge at Phil Neville. One final controversy arose when he declined Everton appeals for a penalty in the third minute of injury time, with the score at 1–2, when Jamie Carragher appeared to foul Joleon Lescott in the Liverpool penalty area. Clattenburg was not appointed to referee another Everton match until 2012.
In December 2009, Clattenburg took charge of a tie between Bolton Wanderers and Manchester City. City personnel alleged that at half-time Clattenburg asked members of their bench: "How do you work with Craig Bellamy all week?". In the second half that followed, he booked Bellamy twice, once for dissent and then for diving, although replays suggested he was actually fouled. City manager Mark Hughes later said: "I've seen Mark Clattenburg have a lot better games than he's had [here today]"and described his decision to send off Bellamy as "laughable".
Also remember Rooney's assault, cowardly elbow to the head of a Wigan player. Blatant red. Rooney got a cuddle- Ref was Clattenburg.
Having come under fire for failing to punish Wayne Rooney for elbowing Wigan Athletic's James McCarthy 11 days ago, Clattenburg was once again the centre of attention last weekend, after he gave Fulham a contentious late penalty against Blackburn Rovers.
Then there was the Utd v Spurs games, everything he gave for Utd inc the infamous Nani goal
On 28 October 2012, Chelsea made a formal complaint to the Football Association against Clattenburg about his alleged use of "inappropriate language" towards John Obi Mikel during that day's match against Manchester United. Due to a lack of evidence the club said it decided not to complain about alleged verbal abuse of a second player, believed to be Juan Mata. United had won the game 3–2, scoring the winning goal after the referee had sent off Chelsea's Branislav Ivanović for a professional foul and then showed Fernando Torres two yellow cards, for a high kick and alleged diving although he was clearly fouled. Replays showed that the winning goal should have been ruled offside.
Robert Snodgrass will not face disciplinary action for his criticism of referee Mark Clattenburg on Twitter following Norwich's 2-1 defeat to West Ham.
Clattenburg awarded a second-minute penalty to West Ham for shirt-pulling by Ryan Bennett on Winston Reid during the New Year's Day clash, a decision Snodgrass did not agree with.
The midfielder tweeted: "The referee kills the game. If that's a pen you will need to give 100 pens a season, small decisions change games."
A similar incident was made public on 2 January 2014, when Southampton F.C. made an official complaint and demanded an apology after accusing Clattenburg of making an insulting remark to their midfielder Adam Lallana during their 2-1 defeat to Everton on 29 December 2013. The incident is alleged to have happened after Southampton had two penalty appeals turned down. Clattenburg is alleged to have said to Lallana: "You are very different now, since you've played for England – you never used to be like this
I am sure there are lots more than the above, he just seems to have too many of these incidents for my liking
