Mark Clattenburg

happy said:
We lost. Get over it.
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Perhaps corruption is too strong - how about incompetence? Is that really much better?

There's not much hope for some kind of parity in sport if we're followed by people who just 'toe the line'. The Fifa issues weren't that long ago - whether or not you think that may still be prevalent doesn't excuse the fact that we currently have referees that are far from competent. Please don't convince yourself otherwise. I really hope you're not quite as naive as you seem to come across.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
While it was a shocker of a decision from an official I firmly believe is corrupt, wishing death on him will earn you some time off.
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I wondered where that post had gone!

I think we'll put it down to him being somewhat "tired and emotional" (especially given his appalling spelling)! :-)
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
While it was a shocker of a decision from an official I firmly believe is corrupt, wishing death on him will earn you some time off.
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How about a debilitating, extremely painful, life changing but ultimately non life threatening illness/disease?
 
Clattenburg was the ref in the first game against Spurs, where they got two dodgy offside goals. Maybe it Pellegrini would come out at criticise referees more, and make that the focus of the media reports, we wouldn't have been given the corrupt bastard again for the return leg.

People are slagging off our team a lot today, but the reality is that the ref cost us the game. We had the best chances throughout the game, and Spurs only scored when we were forced into taking more risks defensively because of the dodgy goal they were gifted.
 
Robinho's Subbuteo said:
"I think it hit Raheem Sterling's hand but the referee wasn't sure if it was inside or outside. Obviously we were asking for it to be inside," Kane said.

Sure. Sterling recently had his hand relocated to his back Harry. Asking for it to be inside? What the fuck?
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Watch the replay - he looked at Danny Rose for the decision.

Pep may come but he can do nothing about cheating referees - Clattenwank is a cheat.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Clattenburg was the ref in the first game against Spurs, where they got two dodgy offside goals. Maybe it Pellegrini would come out at criticise referees more, and make that the focus of the media reports, we wouldn't have been given the corrupt bastard again for the return leg.

People are slagging off our team a lot today, but the reality is that the ref cost us the game. We had the best chances throughout the game, and Spurs only scored when we were forced into taking more risks defensively because of the dodgy goal they were gifted.
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That's why I'm so pissed off
 
Well ol Wiggy Clattenburg has done his job again for the FA. He couldn't point to the spot fast enough. The sooner video technology is introduced for such decisions the better for me.
 
only just seen the penalty incident again for the first time after seeing it live, he will get spurs player of the month for sure.
unbelievable jeff!!!!
 
happy said:
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?
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Has the cheating in tennis, cricket etc been done with guile? Has it not been seen by millions?
 
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.
 
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