He also said this -
"Even in the Premier League, I still smile at the first time I came across Roy Keane," Clattenburg told NBC's Men in Blazers podcast.
"He screamed at us for a corner and I'm sure it was a goal kick but because he screamed at us so loudly, I gave a corner. I was that petrified of him."
Unrelated to us but still completely unacceptable
Imagine what else he has done and hasn't admitted to (in general, not necessarily relating to us)
9 out of 11 yellow cards were given to us. I think that was rather obvious, haha.If his game plan was to let Spurs implode, he was then intentionally not punishing Chelsea so as to aggravate our players and as such he was favouring 1 team, therefore cheating. He should be fined, fired & banned from football forever.
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, walks like a duck..it's a duck.
I can't believe there is not more being made of the fact a premier league referee has admitted to purposely going against the laws of the game in order to affect its outcome.
Not really, brah.
I'm making a deliberately over-emphatic point, but largely constrained by the nature of the post I'm replying to. If you check my first post in this thread you will see that I said I believe we lost what fading chances we had of the title when we drew with West Brom*, so I'm not really saying Leicester would have shat the bed and we would have won the title. We don't know what would have happened if Clattenburg had dealt with Chelsea and their antics effectively from the start of the first half. So none of us know what the result would have been - that is the nature of time and causality.
But the point is still a valid one. Some folk are looking at it from the consequences, which were that our players imploded and could/should have been sent off. Funnily enough, that suits the whole narrative that has been presented from the night of the game. And Clattenburg is playing that by talking about our players that could/should have been sent off. But the fact is that if you look at it from the first whistle, it was the Chelsea players who were most in danger of being sent off, and lucky not to be. They were throwing themselves wildly into tackles all over the pitch. And when the subtext was that they said they would do anything to prevent us winning the title (when they still had to play us and Leicester) the referee should have came down like a ton of bricks the first time one of those tackles, one of those incidents of violent conduct, or any instance of vile winding up by Fabregas (or anyone else) occurred. But he didn't, he let it fester.
I don't know what would have happened if he had dealt with them effectively. But there is a good chance that our players wouldn't have got so wound up (which is, after all, exactly why the Chelsea players were doing exactly what they were). And that means, like without a player or two, not being allowed to do the antics that would our players up, and our players not being wound up, it is fair to infer a situation where they wouldn't have got an equaliser or even back into the game. So all of this talk, from the end looking backwards, of how many players we could have lost is totally irrelevant and totally misses the point. If Clattenburg had done his job properly from the first whistle the odds are against our players being in a position to be that wound up.
*As for West Brom, that is a whole different story. Pulis said outright he wanted Leicester to win the title - for Ranieri (I think). A couple of days before us he played the Goons and they were utterly abject. I watched the whole game. A couple of days after playing us they played West Ham, and were utterly abject. I watched the whole game. Against us, they suddenly played the second half like it was a cup final!?! We should have won the game, anyway...so I am not just blaming them for playing out of their skins. But it does beg the question, doesn't it? Did they conserve themselves against Arsenal? Did they leave themselves too knackered too compete against West Ham and would they have done that as routine in league matches? We were royally shafted - and the FA are who I blame the most for letting them, and especially Chelsea, away with it. How do you imagine Ferguson would have reacted to this?
It was Clattenburg who failed to award Mendes from the halfway line, right?
He and any of his spawn should have been euthanised there and then.
A nice early Christmas present.
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Outspoken football referee Mark Clattenburg 'is caught playing away with 50-year-old divorcee who says she had no idea he was married'