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.
 
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