Good morning, fight fans.
Clatterberk referees so badly he’s been accused of being bent.
Charges by fans of corruption aimed at officials are common enough fare, but in the case of young Marky Mark they have been fueled by the disclosure that the man with the sensational syrup has on several occasions been up to his knickers in debt.
Both Spurs and Manchester United fans will be unsurprised to discover Mark Clattenburg’s life off the pitch is as much of a fiasco as it is on it.
He was appointed as a director of MC Electrical Retail NE Ltd on June 23 2008.
Four days later the firm was wound up under the Insolvency Act at Newcastle County Court over an alleged unpaid debt of £59,000 to fellow electrician John Hepworth.
It then came to light that another business, MC Electrical Services NE Ltd (spot the difference?) was wound up on January 23 2008 and Companies House records show the company folded owing £57,454 to trade creditors, HSBC Bank and HM Revenue and Customs. Mmmmn.
The FA suspended Clatternburg over this for failing to disclose his debts.
In November of the same year, Clattenburg’s ex-girlfriend Susan Clegg was arrested on suspicion of trashing his Porsche Boxster, worth £40,000, which was vandalized outside his flat in Gosforth, Newcastle.
This is the same clown that made a complete fist of a Merseyside derby in 2007 which drew over 3,000 signatures on a petition to have him axed from refereeing.
In the match, Liverpool beat Everton 2-1 despite Clattenburg sending off two Everton players, giving Liverpool a disputed penalty and turned down two penalty appeals from Everton. After the game Mark received death threats.
Hotspur’s verdict?
Jack it in son. You’re out of your depth.
There’s enough in his on field behaviour to hang the man from avery tall tree.
Character assassination is not required here.
If you have any evidence that he is crooked on the field as well as a bit dodgy off it let’s hear it.
If he had backed a 2-0 scoreline then he could just have given the penalty.
Moving on…
Interested to see this morning, league table from same time last year compared to this.
We were in the same position, 5th, with one more game played I think, but with 3 more points.
The big thing though was goals scored, over double compared to this season!
This brings me on to tonight, I really want to be optimistic, but somethings wrong and I can’t be.
This is only my opinion, but Crouch in a 4-5-1 does not work, he doesn’t score goals!
I know people will say he sets them up for VDV, but I don’t think this is good enough, he should do that and score with his own chances!
I was in the San Siro, and not only did he not take his chances (ok, he didn’t get many) but the few he did get he was woeful, falls over all the bloody time
I know we all agree we need a world class striker, but until we get one I think we could do much better than the current fixation Harry has with this formation
As Regulars will know, my preference would be Pav, he is a far better player than Crouch, and has never been given the run he deserves, the one time last year he did start regularly, he was class
VDV is quality, world class even, but if allowing him to play his free role means we have to have Crouch up front every game, I fear we will go backwards
I don’t want to be negative but Harry needs to wake up tactically and play to our strengths…All of them
I hope I’m wrong, I hope Crouch scores a hat trick tonight, but…..I can’t get rid of that nagging feeling
To the person saying “If he’s bent, why didnt he give the penalty?”, it was because there was clear day light between the players when Nani went down (at least a yard) and probably thought it was too blatently not a penalty for him to give it. They turned together so there would be contact between them, Nani got ahead of Kaboul, Kaboul dropped off, Nani realised he wasnt getting there, fell to the floor, doing a little shimmy with his lower body as if to have come kind of trip / bundle.. Neither was the case & Utd fans can think otherwise all they want. Some people have actually played football themselves & know that was never a penalty.
I dont believe (or blindly hope) that refs aren’t bent, nor really believe that their personal life has much bearing on decisions, maybe unless in a good / bad frame of mind that day. but how can a ref play an advantage (he says), when the advantage was the ball being in the back of our own net? How can you overrule a linesman, if he’s clearly said their was a handball & no advantage came of it..
I don’t where you were watching it, but Kaboul quite clearly tried to pull him back by putting his arms around him, before he belatedly dived. Don’t give me all that ‘Some people have actually played football themselves & know that was never a penalty’ BS. They’ve been given for much less than that you berk!
hh .not a nice article . should be left for the shite papers . your better than this .
I can understand referee hate fatigue kicking in. I frequently get bored with all sorts of things.
But in relation to his ‘personal’ life, I touched on it with the girlfriend arrest, but his business activities are not private.
His debts were not on credit cards because he was obsessed with buying Star Wars merchandise on ebay. He traded using – I would argue – his name as it would arguably have a cache with certain folk.
He traded into bankruptcy.
The point I was making none to subtly was that if he isn’t crooked, he is incompetent. I don’t want him hounded out the game because ‘he might be on the take’. I genuinely don’t think that’s the case.
I want him hounded out because he’s inept. He conducts himself on the pitch as he does of it – lurching from one bad decision to another.
I read that that he is divorced and father. This I did not include as I felt that would be unfair.
He can’t run a football match, can’t run a two bob business and probably has form for being unable to run a bath.
Prattle shortly.