- Jun 7, 2009
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Fuck Clattenberg and his mum.
I just wonder if he was concerned about protecting himself from some not-so-hypothetical violence from the chavs. Maybe the senior Plod that evening warned him that showing a red to a Chelscum player would result in all sorts of mayhem. If the feral thugs who go to Scumford Bridge every other week are volatile enough at the 'best' of times, how wound up would they have been for this game?
He said he went in there with a game plan. What was that game plan, to let the game flow? How did he know our players would react in such a way to getting wound up. He did us a favour by not sending our players off. He is right though, we lost that game all on our own.
This is just some attention grabbing from mark.
Without Clattenburg being a bell piece, we wouldn't have witnessed Eric Dier behaving like only I would dream of doing given the circumstances against them scum bags. As seen here..
Also I played in a game 2 years ago reffed by a well known premier league ref. Without boring you with how he came about reffing it, the night before our game he'd reffed a Man City premier league game. Well that match and the conversations we had with him were such an eye opener. He talked openly about players who were really hard to deal with which was fascinating. But my main point is during the game I was getting constantly fouled by an opposition player. After maybe 5 times he was booked. Said premier league ref had a word in my ear as the game was playing and said the exact words "if you're going to smash him make sure it's not a red". I asked him after if he would say that in a premier league game to which he said absolutely and it's extremely common.
I've played at decent semi pro level and never experienced it before.
Clattenberg, WTF man?! I totally respected you, I though you were the man on that Real - Atletico CL final, but now you go and admit this shit? Fuck you man. you just broke my stupid heart.
No one should have this much love for a ref
You guys might not agree with me on this, but i kinda see the example you gave as being a good thing. Allows for the game to be a contact sport and also shows the ref knew you were being fouled a lot by the other lad and wouldn't be completely against you having a dig back
Hmmm thinking about it, maybe i am just reading it the same way as everyone else is and I'm spewing a blatantly obvious opinion
I know his form has been splitting opinion with some of you this year but all this thread does is remind me how close I was to having full on homosexual feelings for Dier that night. Whatever happens in the future, whether he moves or whether he loses his place in the team etc, I’ll always know that night, he fucking loved Spurs and he fucking hated Chelsea and he really fucking hated Fabregas.
Thing is had we gone on to score a last second equaliser, after he has said himself should have sent three players off he could well have cost Leicester the title. It's all if's, but it's why all officials in any sport have to follow the letter of the law. I know there are grey area's and not all refs will see things the same, but the fact is he says he believed there were three red cards that should have been given but were not purely because it suited him better.
I've just listened to the extract of the interview. What an absolute **** that man is.
I still don't believe this was a "game plan" just a shit referee turning "I lost control of a big game" into "look at me, aren't I clever, I won Leicester the title"
But think about it, as @Trix said above, by being lenient with us, we only had to score one more or hold onto a two goal lead and then one goal lead to stay in the title race, and he actually helped our chances of doing that.
Either way, bullshit or true, it's a fucking idiotic thing for a referee to say.