Mark Clattenburg

forensic onions said:
The thing that is seriously amiss is mostly that we are expecting humans not to err, which is ridiculous. Offside for example, how an earth is a linesman meant to look in two places at exactly the same tim, to see the precise moment a ball leaves the passer's foot and the position of the recipient ? It's always going to be fallible.
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There is genuine human error and there is the travesty of a refereeing decision we saw on Sunday. The two are a million miles apart. There is also the 'human error' that sees a genuinely honest guy who tries every single match to stay on his feet no matter how much ankle tapping goes on, calf raking, tackles from behind, being cautioned for diving! Some of the referees currently whistling their way across the nation's PL stadia have 'baggage' that doesn't belong on a football field. Just how many games has Corporal Jones seen of Aguero attempting to stay on his feet no matter what range of foul play he suffers? I suspect he came with the notion he was going to book somebody early on in the season for diving, and Sergio gave him the first opportunity.
 
SilverFox2 said:
If he bought any media his problem would be to find other than City supporters to read or listen to it.
He does not need the revenue but the newspapers do so they feed the majority with what they want to hear.

The only reason Sir Alex had his views published was because of who he managed so it generated income for that media.
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If he did buy a Newspaper, I can imagine turning to page 3 and saying..............Mmmmmmm nice pair of eyes.
 
Carlos- the- jackal said:
It didn't hit his hand you fuckin plum and i don't know anyone blue or any other football allegiance that thinks it did,you nake some decent points otherwise but your credibilty just goes out the window with your comments on the Sterling non handball.
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What the fuck are you on about. If you going to have a go at someone at least reply to the correct post even I get that bit fucking right.
 
gios_left_boot said:
Hello everyone finally decided to join up after being a lurker for years, I should have joined years ago but better late than never.
I have to give my piece on this biased ref thread and I can safely say I'm in the camp that some refs are definitely on the take. One thing I haven't seen posted on here is the amount of times the refs blow the oppositions way nearly all game, then towards the last 15-20 minutes of a game (after the damage as normally been done) we get a flurry of free kicks in our favour normally little niggles as if to even the numbers out for the stats at the end of the game, I believe in an effort to hide the clear bias from the ref, I'm not sure if anyone else as picked up on it but certainly happens.
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That was defintely the case with Peter Walton who used to ref all our games with Everton and was totally bent. With him we only got decisions in the last 5 minutes. He made Clattenburg seem like Mike Sumerbee.
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
That was defintely the case with Peter Walton who used to ref all our games with Everton and was totally bent. With him we only got decisions in the last 5 minutes. He made Clattenburg seem like Mike Sumerbee.
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From recollection Walton was a horror show alright not sure he was that much worse than Clattenclown though
 
forensic onions said:
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If that laughable picture was taken from the side angle it might have some credibility, but as it's head on you cannot possibly tell whether the ball is actually touching his arm or is a yard behind it having cannoned off his back. Same drill as per the 'ball over the line' incident against Everton. From the camera on the 18 yard line, that BT Sport deliberately used ad nauseum to persuade people we'd gotten away with something, the ball looked miles out. From the camera actually over the goal line though, which they showed just once, it was arguable that it wasn't out at all but rather touching the outer edge of the line. That notwithstanding it's high time you did one. As before, if you truly believe that the ball hit Sterling's arm rather than his back then you're either demented or Lenny Peters
 
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ccr said:
If he did buy a Newspaper, I can imagine turning to page 3 and saying..............Mmmmmmm nice pair of eyes.
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Fair point, meant to say of course if he bought a Newspaper business to air the views of a City point of view.
 
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