Mark Clattenburg

[chesterguy]

Do you mean the organisation that has been expose by investigative journalism?

Do you not think that if there was a scrap of evidence, I mean actual evidence rather than the anecdotal ramblings of unhappy fans that these same journalists would not have turned their attention to the most affluent league in the world?

Apart from one joournalist none of those journalists investigated FIFA. Why because you dont bite the hand that feeds you? Sport is corrupt its just we dont know about it. See Cricket players banned tennis judges banned if you think football is immune you are deluded IMHO

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

they said all this about the one of the biggest, if not the biggest sporting organisation in world sport

There was never any doping in cycling, until the tests said otherwise, and there was never any corruption in athletics until the Russians were banned, and FIFA, Blatter and Platini were clean as whistles until some shit started hitting a fan. We have had corruption in football before - players, officials, people charged with governing the game. I cannot think for long that the game in this country is the only lilywhite version within 'the football family'.

 

[It could have been 10]

I remember Scudamore the head of the Premier league stating that the Premier league NEED a successful Man United

Now we know football is corrupt FIFA have proven that

Watch over the next 12 games how many dodgy decisions that United get for them and how many decisions dodgy decisions we get against us

I remember just after Scudamore made that statement they released the fixtures for the coming season & the Rags had the 3 promoted clubs in the first 5 or 6 games. Not that it did them much good .They only won one of them.

 

[Barry Conlons wig]

There was never any doping in cycling, until the tests said otherwise, and there was never any corruption in athletics until the Russians were banned, and FIFA, Blatter and Platini were clean as whistles until some shit started hitting a fan. We have had corruption in football before - players, officials, people charged with governing the game. I cannot think for long that the game in this country is the only lilywhite version within 'the football family'.

^^^THIS^^^

 

[Dave S]

The game is corrupt! It just needs someone to unearth everything.....and I mean everything.

 

[We're not really here]

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.

 

[lasereyes]

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.

 

[happy]

Apart from one joournalist none of those journalists investigated FIFA. Why because you dont bite the hand that feeds you? Sport is corrupt its just we dont know about it. See Cricket players banned tennis judges banned if you think football is immune you are deluded IMHO

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?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The game is corrupt! It just needs someone to unearth everything.....and I mean everything.

'Twas one thing for the ToryGraph to expose MPs expenses; 'twould be another thing for one of the RagDipperMeedya to expose any element of corruption that benefitted their red-eyed boys!

 

[ped]

anyone who wears a wig has got something to hide