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striebs

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Those players suss out a weak ref pretty quickly .

Is Clattenburg just naturally weak or is he insecure cos he knows his boss will not back him up or reprimand Fergie for pressurising him ?
 

muffwah

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Webb is one of the better refs.

Clattenburg is definitely one of the worst, I put him in the Halsey/Steve Bennett class of shitness.

Total top 4 ****.
 

Legend10

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Webb is one of the better refs.

Clattenburg is definitely one of the worst, I put him in the Halsey/Steve Bennett class of shitness.

Total top 4 ****.[/quote]


I hope your putting Styles in this group:wink:


You must be delighted that Halsey has the cup final? I thought it was a bad joke when I saw that!
 

Mr-T

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Twattenburg is an absolute james blunt, just like graham poll.
 

BigRed

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Twattenberg cost us again yesterday 3 mins stoppage time, they score 94 1/2 mins!!

I don't really want to comment on Clattenburg's performance, but when they hold up 3 minutes on the board that means AT LEAST 3 minutes. They can play as many extra as they think are appropriate.
 

RandAlThor

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His name sounds like an adjective for mistake. For example "getting married was one of the biggest clattenburg's of my life" or "I think that last pint may have been a clattenburg" or "I think shagging that bird last night was a clattenburg".
 

HandOfMod

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Clattenberg may have made some mistakes, but the way both sets of players surrounded the ref, screaming in his face, was an ABSOLUTE DISCRACE.

until the FA actually pull their thumbs out of their arses and make it clear that any kind of protest will be rewarded with a yellow card, we will continue to get a poor standard of referees because nobody with half a brain would want the job.

The referee is the boss of the game, and should be treated as such. The refs in rugby used to get abuse from the players too, but this was clamped down on, and now it is absolutely clear that back-chat, or dissent of any kind will be punished.
 

JollyHappy

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Actually, I thought Clattenberg was ok on Saturday. He got most big decisions right and the tackle on Evra could well have been a penalty to Man U.

As for timekeeping, in the time it took for Keano to leave the pitch (and Clattenburg watched his watch the whole time) Man U would never have got the corner
 

shelfmonkey

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The refs have been helping out the big four for sometime now, why do they do it? Who knows, might be subconscious, might be they are intimidated by their players, might be that they are bent, might be that the authorities are bent and lean on them, but something needs to be done, because it's so blatant, game after game the big four getting decisions in their favour, it's well beyond coincidence.




Don't worry mate, Juande and the boys will do something about it next season when we smash 'em all over the place and maybe win the league (dreaming, I know) despite the dodgy refereeing, he's got the measure of the 'big' 4 now, so sit back and enjoy the new force emerging !!!:up:
 

TopSpurMan

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Actually, I thought Clattenberg was ok on Saturday. He got most big decisions right and the tackle on Evra could well have been a penalty to Man U.

As for timekeeping, in the time it took for Keano to leave the pitch (and Clattenburg watched his watch the whole time) Man U would never have got the corner

You are clatterbugs dad are you? He was a disgrace to referee'ing everywhere and if you watched the game you would know that.
 

C0YS

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no hes the worst ref I have ever see, ref EVER!!!!, but the Man Utd team where just has bad, a disgrace, how did we end up with no one injured at the end of the game is a mystery to me!!
 

SpurSince57

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Clattenberg may have made some mistakes, but the way both sets of players surrounded the ref, screaming in his face, was an ABSOLUTE DISCRACE.

until the FA actually pull their thumbs out of their arses and make it clear that any kind of protest will be rewarded with a yellow card, we will continue to get a poor standard of referees because nobody with half a brain would want the job.

The referee is the boss of the game, and should be treated as such. The refs in rugby used to get abuse from the players too, but this was clamped down on, and now it is absolutely clear that back-chat, or dissent of any kind will be punished.

Chicken and egg, and I think we had a thread on General Football about this.

In the first place, it's not really up to the FA. The rules are there, always have been, and it's up to the refs to follow them. If there's serious dissent, a baying horde of players surrounding the ref after a contentious decision, there is nothing to stop a yellow card coming out. I vividly remember a United game a few years back where half their team hounded the ref and he did fuck all. The power has been there; it's not exercised.

And the standard of refereeing really does seem to have dropped. Dead right, intimidation is totally out of order, and mistakes will always be made—Bill Nick famously refused to criticise refs, on the grounds that they would make fewer mistakes than his players. But until we get a degree of consistency in decisions, no-one's going to be happy.
 

Bus-Conductor

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On the face of it it would appear that Clattenberg has fucked himself by booking 7 ManU players. And if he has then good riddance. He was constantly apologising for booking them - glad handing them, giving their players friendly little pats. He bottled several major decisions (the same as last year). Hargreaves clearly takes out Jenas's leg (lucky break we score). Twice we are clean through and are prevented from goal scoring opportunities. Hand ball in the box. Two very nasty tackles that might have seen red in other games. Then their is the constant intimidation that goes unpunished and Rooneys usual four letter barracking of every decision.

Jeff Winter spoke about it in his autobiography which I posted on here. ManU are like the Ferrari of F1. They are the Premier league's flag ship. The biggest negotiating factor when the product is marketed at home and particularly abroad. They have clout with the EPL and FA that other teams just don't have. Therefore any ref that fucks them off can find his career going backwards or at least sideways.
 
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