• Clattenburg to go

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:02 am**

Strong speculation this morning that Mark Clattenburg will quit as a Premier League referee before the next set of games in just over as week's time - off to the MLS apparently after becoming disillusioned by the lack of support from PGMOL.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:07 am**

Has he decided who he's going to 'support' in the MLS?

I'm surprised it's taken so long for a match official to get a better deal elsewhere, good luck to him if it happens

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:09 am**

I thought China was his preferred destination. ?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:10 am**

An excellent ref if a bit of a poser but will be missed since we have few others of his calibre.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:13 am**

No!!!! Favourite ref in the premier league. Not because he's a good ref but simply for his over elaborate style of signalling his decisions. As camp as Christmas.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:14 am**

What's PGMOL?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:15 am**

Agree about the poser bit, but Clattenburg and Oliver are by far the two best refs that we have seen this season.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:17 am**

Foulthrow wrote:What's PGMOL?

Professional Game Match Officials Limited

I've never heard of it either until today.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:18 am**

The refs in this country are treated terribly. I honestly don't know why anyone would do it.

Players are back to pushing and abusing refs again after the early season clamp down.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:19 am**

Sidney1st wrote:Professional Game Match Officials Limited

I've never heard of it either until today.

Really? The referees organisation has been in place since 2001 when we got the first professional referees.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:24 am**

I knew something like this existed but had never heard its actual name before. Who runs it? Ex refs?

How much is a professional ref on?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:26 am**

Amazed Riley is still in his role

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:28 am**

It's difficult as they do make mistakes and we do talk about the mistakes but as long as they are impartial and serious about career professional development they should get the strongest possible backing from PGMOL

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:33 am**

Clattenburg is one of the best refs we have in this country, not good to see him wanting out.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:35 am**

ClaretTony wrote:Really? The referees organisation has been in place since 2001 when we got the first professional referees.

I don't pay attention to the unions / organisations that look after the refs, I don't feel a need to worry about it, so long as they're happy.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:35 am**

Would be a big loss. He is by far one of the better refs.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:42 am**

It's definitely lack of support and not a bigger pay cheque?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:45 am**

Celebrity referee... good riddance

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:45 am**

Quickenthetempo wrote:The refs in this country are treated terribly. I honestly don't know why anyone would do it.

Players are back to pushing and abusing refs again after the early season clamp down.

Refs need to grow a set then and start dishing out cards to players who're verbally abusing them, trying to intimidate them or physically handle them.
The fact they don't really do it is part of the problem.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:50 am**

When we had the ex ref on Clarets mad Fox 40 he explained that the PGMOL put pressure on refs to accept it and not be the star of the show. That it would cause big problems if they kept sending the potty mouth Wayne Rooney off for starters.

The only way to stop it is for a live mic that TV viewers here, but it will never happen.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:53 am**

It's caused more problems not sending off players who verbally abuse the ref.

Maybe the PGMOL needs to look at it from the refs point of view instead of worrying about someone like Rooney being sent off for being a gob shite

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:33 pm**

Forget his posing and posturing, this is the best Referee in the Premier League and it does not bode well if he is disillusioned.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:37 pm**

He's off to Saudi Arabia.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:40 pm**

He is a self-serving egotistical tit but on his day a very good referee.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:46 pm**

Saudi's will have a great record of backing the refs so that's why he's gone.

Anyone who says different is a massive liar.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:53 pm**

We only have one better referee than Clattenburg,that's Oliver,I will miss him.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:56 pm**

He'll be a big loss. I've always liked his cake.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:58 pm**

What sort of money does a ref earn for a game in the Premier League?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:00 pm**

Steve1956 wrote:What sort of money does a ref earn for a game in the Premier League?

It can vary greatly depending on which team's bribe they accept.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:28 pm**

Steve1956 wrote:We only have one better referee than Clattenburg,that's Oliver,I will miss him.

They are the best two we've got now by some distance

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:30 pm**

He will be able to show off his forearm tattoos out there as well.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:31 pm**

Steve1956 wrote:What sort of money does a ref earn for a game in the Premier League?

I thought it was about 2 days of Rooney or a month of Andre Gray

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:32 pm**

There's no way his ego will allow him to exist outside the Premier League. He'll be desperate to come back after three months.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:32 pm**

Somewhere there is a forum for referees where some are trying to claim he's not that good a referee and he's a disruptive influence on the dressing room.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:38 pm**

Saudi Arabia sounds a weird choice to me...............how ever much they are paying him.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:06 pm**

He has chosen Saudi Arabia because he is to become the head of Saudi Arabian refereeing on a rolling 1 year contract.
As someone who has known him since he started refereeing in our local leagues back in the 1990s, refereeing senior football at the age of 15, I wish him well, he has been a good ambassador over the years.
I have a feeling that Lord Elleray's lobbying against him within UEFA has had quite a bearing on his decision to quit and go off to pastures new.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:15 pm**

Ashingtonclaret46 wrote:He has chosen Saudi Arabia because he is to become the head of Saudi Arabian refereeing on a rolling 1 year contract.
As someone who has known him since he started refereeing in our local leagues back in the 1990s, refereeing senior football at the age of 15, I wish him well, he has been a good ambassador over the years.
I have a feeling that Lord Elleray's lobbying against him within UEFA has had quite a bearing on his decision to quit and go off to pastures new.

Also seems very odd his bosses have a weird love in with Atkinson who is way below Clattenburg's level.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:41 pm**

Ashingtonclaret46 wrote:He has chosen Saudi Arabia because he is to become the head of Saudi Arabian refereeing on a rolling 1 year contract.
As someone who has known him since he started refereeing in our local leagues back in the 1990s, refereeing senior football at the age of 15, I wish him well, he has been a good ambassador over the years.
I have a feeling that Lord Elleray's lobbying against him within UEFA has had quite a bearing on his decision to quit and go off to pastures new.

I bet some would panic if they saw their surname, "Saudi", "rolling" and "head" in one paragraph.

Fair play to him though, they're offering him a huge sum I imagine (I turned down a year in Saudi earlier this year, probably because I knew they wouldn't take kindly to satirical jokes like this one, that I wouldn't be able to resist!).

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:55 pm**

ClaretTony wrote:Strong speculation this morning that Mark Clattenburg will quit as a Premier League referee before the next set of games in just over as week's time - off to the MLS apparently after becoming disillusioned by the lack of support from PGMOL.

he looks like bear grylls

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:11 pm**

I would rather see Craig Pawson & Mike Dean leave to work abroad and never return!

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:13 pm**

yep, plenty of other refs I would have preferred to leave. I personally think he's a superb ref

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:58 pm**

Sadly he was judged by his English peers not on his refereeing ability but on his life decisions outside of the 90 minute game. We have somehow managed to get rid of our best ref and the only people who are happy with that are the old farts who try to ruin the game at every possible turning. Good luck abroad, become the Worlds Best Ref and earn a wad in the process.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:05 pm**

claretdom wrote:Also seems very odd his bosses have a weird love in with Atkinson who is way below Clattenburg's level.

Only Clattenburg and Atkinson are on the UEFA Elite Referees List and it would seem that, as things stand, unless someone else is promoted to that list in the near future, there will be no English referees at the World Cup Final in Russia because I think that Martin Atkinson may well be too old by then.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:12 pm**

Why couldn't it be the star of the show, Mike Dean?!

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:17 pm**

Foulthrow wrote:No!!!! Favourite ref in the premier league. Not because he's a good ref but simply for his over elaborate style of signalling his decisions. As camp as Christmas.

As camp as christmas! Never heard that one before, brilliant.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:29 pm**

He must have some knackers taking a job over there, hopefully he doesn't make a controversial decision, for his sake.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:55 pm**

I find it amazing that men of such poor sight, owing to playing with themselves and from a single parent family, can actually find a job in the first place!

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:06 pm**

Perhaps he just wants a few more wifes?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:15 pm**

Always comes across as one who is very fond of himself. My over-riding memory of him is of him going apparently bonkers against Hull at the Turf last season when he booked everything that moved in the last 20 minutes or so. Can only speculate on what has attracted him to the fabulously-wealthy oil-rich dictatorship of Saudi Arabia.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:06 am**

The article in todays paper, says he was on £100,000 here and will be on £3-500,000 in his new job. Also states that he was not the flavour of the month ever with his English bosses who apparently didn't want him to get the European Championship Final. I hadn't realised Howard Webb has done this job in Saudi too. 14 teams in their PL and he will probably Ref one of the games each week and oversee the other refs and the development. Good luck to the chap. When will we ever learn springs to mind.

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