Mark Clattenburg

[manimanc]

He is supposed to be impartial.

The he just doesnt like us end of is not acceptable for a ref.

It isn't acceptable true but he basically has something against us. The rags and arsenal matches had the same if not worse incidents involving ball to hand but nothing was awarded. I actually thought he'd give a free kick yesterday, was stunned to see he'd give a pen. Refs are inconsistent, always have and always will be.

 

[blueinsa]

It was mentioned yesterday about the media and their influence on things like this and its spot on. If he makes that call yesterday against the rags lets say, he gets nailed in a trial by media and he knows it. The fact he knows it makes sure he doesnt ever make that call.

He makes it against us because its all fair as far as the media are concerned. Nothing is being said or made about such a farcical decision and he is sat there this morning not giving a fuck, safe in the knowledge his career is safe.

Do you think it would be safe had he made a call like that against the rags or any other sky 4 side?

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Lol, with all this supposed "Corruption" and our sheik having all of the money in the world, then why dont we buy the ref, or the season? When we win the prem is it because the refs were corrupt?

Get a sense of perspective guys, Clattenburg was a nob, he shouldnt have give the penalty, it was a bad call, no consistency, poor decision etc , not bought Lol

Personally, I would like to see poor poor decisions like that punished, he should be moved down a division until he learns to err on the side of caution, dick

 

[bobmcfc]

Pure guesswork yesterday and if that's the standard of reffing we are getting then he needs a spell out of football.

Week in week out this happens to us and it's costing us points

 

[Trolleyhead]

It was mentioned yesterday about the media and their influence on things like this and its spot on. If he makes that call yesterday against the rags lets say, he gets nailed in a trial by media and he knows it. The fact he knows it makes sure he doesnt ever make that call.

He makes it against us because its all fair as far as the media are concerned. Nothing is being said or made about such a farcical decision and he is sat there this morning not giving a fuck, safe in the knowledge his career is safe.

Do you think it would be safe had he made a call like that against the rags or any other sky 4 side?

Fully agree with this. Its not just the sky4 though, look at the uproar for days after the Everton game when they got a line call wrong by about a millimeter. You know straightaway when a ridiculous decision goes against us, it hardly warrants a mention. We are though our own worst enemy, the longer the club don't kick up a fuss, the more of these decisions we will go against us. Officials know we are soft, and with the bulk of the media against us anyway, they know they can get away with it.

 

[ccr]

We have had 4 stonewall pens not given . A couple of others that to me were just as much pens not given. I would love to see those 4 pens and the one given yesterday on a Question Of Sport and ask........Which one of these was not a penalty ? Wonder if anyone could give the right answer.

 

[Akira]

Crap refereeing, pure guesswork in a big game. FA needs to take some action and relegate him to a league 1 or 2 game.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Yes you duck egg and it's been exposed which is precisely my point, corruption amongst football referees would have been exposed long ago if there was enough evidence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-referee-in-La-Liga-clash-with-Barcelona.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Italian_football_scandal

http://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/tourname...ld-cup-referee-blunders/referee-conspiracies/

 

[quiet_riot]

He cannot be allowed to ref us again, surely? The only problem that presents is that the rest of them are just as crap.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It isn't acceptable true but he basically has something against us. The rags and arsenal matches had the same if not worse incidents involving ball to hand but nothing was awarded. I actually thought he'd give a free kick yesterday, was stunned to see he'd give a pen. Refs are inconsistent, always have and always will be.

This is the usual comment at which the football fraternity arrives after a controversial incident. I don't call it 'inconsistent', I call it cheating. To award an infringement for a single clear, if it was clear, incident, and then to not award the same sanction for a nigh on similar incident the next week or in the next half is not inconsistency, it is something more basic - cheating.

Just how many incidents of holding at a corner are blithely ignored and yet within a few yards of the halfway line a simple hand on shoulder and a player going to ground with ne'er enough force to move a piece of paper is roundly given. They are dishonest in their application of the Laws of the Game, and dishonesty fall inside the same camp as cheating.

I was desperate for Sterling to get into the area and be sent flying. Just to see whether we got a penalty or a booking, depending on which form of the Laws Crappenberg was operating.