Mark Clattenburg

[bluwes]

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.

You are my brother Dave, and I claim my £5

 

[happy]

Someone needs to spark him out.

Outright bent, that feeling of being cheated really boils the blood.

I think we've hit rock bottom.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

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.

Try telling the Sheikh that. He knows.

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

I think we've hit rock bottom.

Sorry, be better if someone crippled him so he never 'refereed' again. He's corrupt, shouldn't be anywhere near the sport.

 

[bluwes]

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?

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

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

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.

 

[moorsideblue]

Without a shadow of a Doubt he will be referee for the derby or arse game

 

[baildon blue]

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.

I think we've hit rock bottom.

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

 

[kippaxblue76]

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.

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."
   

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

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

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.