Mark Clattenburg

[goalmole]

If you can't beat them, join them. It's time we started to cultivate relationships with referees ourselves. Perhaps invitations to the Gulf for "seminars" with 7 star accomodation and generous "expenses" might be a good start. I'm loathe to advocate this kind of thing in sport but it does go on, and it's better than getting fucked over every season.

 

[jitsubluedan]

PB unless the club makes a formal complaint to Riley, which they appear reluctant to do, how is anything going to be remedied ?

The media wont help our cause as they are too busy trying to find ways of giving us more shit .

Then maybe we as fans should take up the mantle and not let the tw@t off. We need to be singing about this bent arsehole from the rafters every game so the media get the message.

We all know he's bent
We all know he's bent
Oh mark twattenburg
We all know you're bent

 

[MadchesterCity]

That's not going to happen Clattenburg being suspended from refereeing our games .
Although it's not just him .
There's a long list of them and I can't be bothered naming all the awful referees City have had this season .

Madeley, Pawson, Taylor and Clattenberg are the worst in my opinion

 

[Bob the Baker]

http://i66.tinypic.com/ou6zx1.jpg

Bloody hell, Sterling was bloody lucky with that meteorite hitting him in the back like that. But that bloke in the stand looks in danger

 

[Blue Mooner]

Think about this. Effectively, according to PGMOL, the top referee this country has to offer, who has reached the pinnacle of the referees profession, refereeing one of the biggest matches in the game and Clattenburg thought categorically that the Sterling incident above v Spurs was a blatant handball and penalty.....

Now tell me with a straight face that either Clattenburg himself or the game isn't corrupt.

 

[MadchesterCity]

PB unless the club makes a formal complaint to Riley, which they appear reluctant to do, how is anything going to be remedied ?

The media wont help our cause as they are too busy trying to find ways of giving us more shit .

Agreed mate, that video of Riley is absolutely shocking, I'm sure teh corruption is deep with these referees, it would also seem that the best way to progress as a referee is to be available to instructions to influence games. Who makes these decisions, who instructs the referees to act in this manner?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

It's a bit like drugs and athletics. It is rife across the world but no one admits it's a problem in the UK. Bent referees have been exposed in most other football countries. There is no reason to suspect it isn't happening here. Despite all the overwhelming evidence about corrupt police, politicians, journalists, bankers, NHS officials etc etc we still delude ourselves that Britain is not a bent country. We are just as bad as anywhere else and I am convinced that certain referees over here are on the the take..just like Italy, Spain, Germany and France.

 

[trublue55]

Bloody hell, Sterling was bloody lucky with that meteorite hitting him in the back like that. But that bloke in the stand looks in danger

Is it only me, that finds that picture conclusive proof, given the ball has come from Rose and is now in front of Sterling's arm, it must have come off his back. Has it come off his hand first, the ball would have been deflected sideways, and in the picture would have been to the side. It cannot have hit his hand,"gone through it" and then been photographed in front of it

 

[Mikejl]

That Arsenal team should have walked off before the end. Not only did they suffer blatantly open cheating by the officials, the SKY commentators did their best to gloss over what was happening in the game. That's how baconface won the majority of his trophies.

#theunitedway

 

[City_Sean]

I'm actually amazed that the FA had the balls to drop him. Not that it changes much though, he cost us in what was a huge game.