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I've just read that Mark Clattenberg has been sacked as a Premier League referee — great news.
The article mentions how Everton supporters' reactions to the infamous derby game he refereed contributed to his downfall, though it doesn't go as far as suggesting that he took bribes or was influenced by certain teams it is suggested quite obviously that this is the case.
The case is ongoing, and it will be interesting to see how it develops: if he is found guilty of match-fixing, then surely those who are benefitting from his actions need to be investigated as well.
It would be good to hear your views on this case.
WE DO THINGS WITH DIGNITY AT EVERTON.
Matt Kassell, Posted 29/01/2009 at 04:09:00
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It's nothing to do with his awful refereeing (it�s dodgy finances) but who cares!
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
What we, as football supporters, need to know here is exactly what that connection was. It is ourselves and the gate money we pass through the turnstiles week in week out that, notwithstanding TV money et al , keeps this game alive and we deserve to know what it was in Clattenberg’s other employment as an electrician and what offences he commited in that capacity that made it necessary for him to be sacked as a referee.
I smell a fucking big rat here and suspect that something is being hushed up in the interests of vested interests in the Premier League. We have to suffer incompetent referees every week and that is bad enough. But we have a right to know whether there was corruption here because the future of the game and our TRUST in the game is at stake.
Does anybody know how to set up a petition to the FA and the referees governing body....in the interests of ALL football supporters?
Of course there may be no connection , but it does seem strange.
Should find a place at home there with the other degenerates.
What goes around comes around so they say.
I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he had been in charge of both Derby games just played! Would of been interesting.
It just seems a bit strange that all this came out after that match as if the FA investigated him and found something untoward and swept it underneath the carpet. As I say, is it just me or does anybody else think this way?
"A poll in the Times newspaper rated his decision in the Everton v Liverpool game and subsequent refusal to discuss it, as the most suspect refereeing incident of all time." (Wikipedia)
Pierluigi Collina -
The Italian Football Federation raised the retirement age of refs especially for him. I think he never reffed another Serie A game, however, as he was taking money from Opel to advertise their cars while they were sponsoring AC Milan. But this allowed him to ref Villarreal vs Everton 25th August 2005. His last match, I believe.
Mark Clattenburg -
Thanks for demonstrating so clearly to neutrals that some players and officials believe that they are above the law. And with a couple more like you, we just might get a ’Toffees Curse’ myth going.
We often see these well paid clowns running around with their mugs fixed in a stupid smile and it makes makes me wonder if they have a feather up their bum. They should be informed that the game, at least as far as they are concerned, is not a popularity contest.
Their sole job and nothing more or less is to uphold the laws of the game. Apart from that, the less we see of them the better it will be.
Pity they can’t re hire him and sack him again for crimes against Evertonia.
Firstly he has not been sacked for misdeeds on the pitch but for breach of contract arising from goings on in his personal life.
Secondly he will never come to Goodison again and we will never have opportunity to let him know what a thoroughly bent and arrogant SOB he really is. At some point in the future he was bound to have been appointed to officiate at an EFC game and it would have been great to let him know that we will always despise him and that we will never forget how his dishonesty robbed us.
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