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Mark Clattenburg reveals all, and suggests what rules he would change in football

Mark Clattenburg reveals all, and suggests what rules he would change in football after being asked while appearing on Fan Debate.

In this episode, Jamie Carragher and Paul Scholes are joined by former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg who shares a number of stories, topics, talking points, and insights from his career.

It begins with Mark on of his role as Referee Consultant at Nottingham Forest, including the backlash that came with that. He then shares stories of conflicts that he has had with players including Craig Bellamy and Adam Lallana, as well as heated interactions with Jurgen Klopp, plus Jose Mourinho’s charm.

Mark then delves into his controversial decisions, how referees manage games, the impact of VAR and the difficulty of dealing with social media backlash. Plus, we hear the reason behind Clattenburg’s tattoos, the highs and lows of his career and officiating major finals.

Timestamps (YouTube video below) –
00:00 – Promo
01:52 – Mark Clattenburg at Nottingham Forest
07:13 – Referees Declaring Their Football Team
15:06 – Mark Clattenburg’s Role as Referee Consultant at Nottingham Forest
19:00 – Mark Clattenburg’s Journey to Refereeing
22:18 – Mark Clattenburg’s Clash with Craig Bellamy + Adam Lallana
27:17 – The Impact of Social Media on Referees
31:50 – Manchester United’s Mind Games and Jose Mourinho’s Charm
33:11 – Clattenburg’s Clash with Jurgen Klopp
37:08 – Refereeing Bayern Munich v Barcelona in the Champions League
39:51 – Refereeing Mistakes in the Merseyside Derby
43:26 – Champions League Final: Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid
46:53 – Clattenburg’s Tattoos
49:50 – Clattenburg’s Thoughts on VAR
53:06 – Do Referees Have an Agenda Against Certain Clubs?
55:48 – The Best Referee in the Premier League Right Now + Chat on Added Time
01:06:10 – What Rule in Football Would Mark Clattenburg Change?
01:09:07 – Flav Takes on a Tottenham Hotspur Quiz

Jamie: “What rule in football would you change”

Mark: “Like the idea of the goalkeeper, eight seconds and give a corner. I don’t like that after three seconds, five, it it’s gonna look look terrible. But the other two things I always wanted and I hope that they bring in because football is always about entertainment, having as much playing time as possible. I think when I first got in the Champions League, it was only 40 something minutes a game. 90 minute game, 40 something minutes. The two things I would really want is the referee to have the power instead of giving a yellow card for a player who’s taking too long to throw in. Because I explained, and it happened to me. I used to laugh.

“Players, what they would do, walk up the line with the ball, knowing that the referee is gonna send them back. So that’s another 15 seconds. Cha ching. He gets back, and he goes, oh, ref, is it from here? Yeah. It happens. Watch. And then he gets the ball, and he he delays. He delays. He delays. He delays. And if he’s not on four yellow cards, what’s he gonna do? He’ll take the yellow card. Knowing by the time the referee runs over, bing, with the yellow card, he then gets out his big book. He writes his number in. He puts his book away. He puts it in his pocket. He gets back into position.

“What does the player do? Another 10 seconds. He throws the ball in. So we’ve wasted another 30, 40 seconds. He’s won. The player’s won. The power should be. The referee should just reverse the decision. So if I say to Paul, Paul, get the ball in, and he’s laughing at us, and I know what he’s doing. I know his tactic. And he doesn’t get the ball in the opposite way. And if you’re defending, you’re not gonna, you’re not wanting to give the ball back, would you?

“Let’s change and give the referee the power they bring to reverse the swings.

“And the other one is which irritates us as the goalkeeper corner. Players now are just trotting over for a corner, and the referee is scared to give him a yellow card for time wasting. If they don’t go quick enough and you warn him and you say, take the corner now, or I’m gonna reverse it and give a goal kick, what will a player do? He’s gonna run over and get the ball in quicker.

“In the opposite way, the goalkeeper, if he’s taking too long at a goal kick, bring the goal kick in, and if he doesn’t do it, then you just get a corner. All you’re doing is you’re not saying you’re gonna use it because players know that you’ve got the power to do it at the moment, then they know the way around the law by just delaying the swing.”

Twitter users had their say as Mark Clattenburg reveals all, and suggests what rules he would change in football…

@mikewilliams992: Can just get rid of all that by stopping the game clock. Have 90 minutes of game time, clock stops when ball goes out to play and restarts when the ball back in.

@twenny89: Stop the clock when ball goes out of play. Have like a count down (10-15secs) for the ball to get back into play and and if it goes over the count down book the player with the ball in hand. Start the clock when ball enters play. Sorted. No time wasted and still get cautioned.

@TJHughes1976: Weirdly rugby never has this problem as the ref just stops the clock. Therefore ZERO time wasting and everyone knows when times up when the clock hits 90 mins rather than “a minimum of six minutes to be played”

@BenClapperton: Make the game 60 minutes instead of 90 and stop the clock when the ball isn’t in play. Sorted.

@Lewis_Palfrey22: Will think of literally anything but embracing a 2×30 min stop clock format in this sport 🤣 🦕

@samlee1428:
Easier ways
– Book the first time it happens and not just towards the end of games.
– Add the total time taken onto additional time by actually stopping the watch

@Handup_SOWHAT: I thought the refs had a watch and could add time at the end of the game. So if the player wastes time then add more time…

@Merse2506: Love all MC ideas, but it offers inconsistency with referees at games. I remember SKY showing a ball in play stat on our screens most games it was 55 minutes. Fans are being cheated, are getting away with time it. I think a clock, aka like American Football, for balls out.

@H186Mathew: Another incredibly simple thing that should be in football relating to time is that the time is paused when the ball isn’t in play like in rugby imo.

@TomBarrett1988: They should also do what they do in Rugby, if a player that’s not the captain is having a go at the ref then they should give the opposition a free kick and if they carry on then the free kick gets moved further towards the goal until it’s given as a penalty

@stephenok10: Actually fully agree. Time wasting is ruining the game

@RocketOwl1986: Just easier to have a 10 second countdown on big screen and if it’s not thrown in then goes to other other team. If a GK becomes a corner.

@CoZaCFC: Just stop the clock when the ball is out of play. Sorted.

@five0123: It’s simple. Book players for time wasting AND simply add on additional injury time. That way players will learn that time wasting does not work. If games are to be 55 mins per half then so be it. Getting 40 mins of ball in play action is a joke and is easily stamped out.

@robbie_bac: Interesting ideas, reversing the decision, but the issue is with players’ attitude to refs… , one good thing about rugby is the players respect for the MAN in the middle

@SantiAFC1994: I do like this idea tbf, however i can see decisions being reversed when they shouldn’t be and then teams scoring from them and pandemonium ensuing.

@JEBaker83: I’d change the rule where a referee doesn’t send off a player for Leicester because he wants them to win the league and is arrogant enough to tell the players that’s what he’s doing. Call me crazy but I think it might all his independence and integrity into question.

@PeterPrior1991: All sounds great, but would never work in reality. It would just add more controversy every single week because one team got a goal kick reversed into a corner, yet another team didn’t etc. They’d never be able to implement this so that everyone was on a fair playing field.

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