Mark Clattenburg

[Citizen of Legoland]

Anyone see his ten second Bruce Forsyth impression during the game. I wonder what the odds were on him doing that between the 60th and 70th minutes in the far east.

 

[Eds]

Someone senior at the club needs to make a very public statement about all the curious decisions made recently

 

[mayo31]

Wasting your time asking for someone at the club to say anything. We do not do that.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

A good referee runs the game in a way that you don't notice them, Clattenburg loves the camera being on him, you can tell with his over stated pointing and waving, I bet he's still sat there this morning convinced he did a 10 out of 10 performance.

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

A good referee runs the game in a way that you don't notice them, Clattenburg loves the camera being on him, you can tell with his over stated pointing and waving, I bet he's still sat there this morning convinced he did a 10 out of 10 performance.

Your spot on with this assessment

He will be driving around in his personalised registration Porsche listening to talkshite on his way to have his hair dry cleaned

He is a wannabe football star a complete prick

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Has this NOB apologised for getting it wrong yet.

 

[George Hannah]

Mike Wedderburn could hardly squeeze more venom into his 'Clattenberg' pronunciation on SSN this morning.

 

[jrb]

Overly protected by the FA, the PL, and the Ref's Association.

Ref's should go in-front of the media like Manager's and Player's have to, to explian their decisions.

Of course this will never happen because the Grey suited Men who run football in this country don't want it to happen.

 

[dario2739]

Until last year I was working with a colleague who is a Championship Referee. He had previously been a Premier League Assistant, but decided he wanted to be the main man and eventually try himself to be selected for the Premier League as a Referee, so the only way for him to do this was to return to a period of refereeing in League 1/2 and the Championship.

Anyway, to the point, my friend was selected to be 4th official at an FA Cup tie that Clattenburg was officiating and saw this as a wonderful chance to see how select referees operated. Suffice to say from start to finish he was unimpressed. At one point Clattenburg went missing for 30 minutes only to announce he'd been seeing a few old friends, the pre match brief (where the ref advises his assistants on how he likes to operate) was non existent, but the best part was when it was only noticed in the captains team sheet brief that the 2 shirts the away goalkeeper had brought where the same colour as the home team shirt and the home team keeper's shirt. The only option was for the home keeper to change his shirt, however that clashed with the shirts Clatenburg and his team had brought. Anyway the story goes that the captains of both teams were not impressed as what should have been a 5 minute brief went on for around 15 minutes while minions of the home team scuttled around looking for a goalkeeper shirt that didn't clash and had the name of their keeper playing that day on it.

In short this was all down to Clatttnburg fucking off to have a social and not briefing any of the other officials who had never worked with him what be wanted doing. Needless to say my friend has a rather dim view of him.

Wonder if Daniel Levy is an old friend!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Cheating fucker think he was on the payroll for city or draw first half and a spurs win full-time.

Whistle to mouth doesn't blow, stupid had gestures.

Wanker.