From Sky Sports - Kevin Davies has hit out at referee Mark Clattenburg after he controversially ruled out a winner for the Bolton striker against Fulham.

Davies headed home late on what appeared to be a deserved winner for Bolton at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday only for Clattenburg to pull up Davies for a push on Fulham defender Brede Hangeland.

The decision left Bolton's players and manager Owen Coyle perplexed and Davies feels Clattenburg shows a bias against the Bolton forward.

"Every time he referees us, I don't expect to get anything," said Davies.

"I think he (Hangeland) got under the ball and I just outjumped him. He hit the floor and he knew it was a fair goal.

'When I saw who the referee was I didn't expect to get anything off him. I have always felt there is something personal there."

Not suprised really, twatburg is a joke

That could put Kev in hot water with the FA

It needed saying. Maybe the punishment will highlight what a bellend Clattenburg is, and keep him away. He has form with us.

TKIZ! wrote:

That could put Kev in hot water with the FA

Good.

There's no way they won't back the referee up, publicly, but behind the scenes it may do some good against this pteening ponce.

Bolton will have all the video evidence they can need to show his bias, they'llpresent it & it'll be rejected, openly. It could at least make the sight of his dyed & transplanted hair seen less at the Reebok. Tosser !

This is why video evidence is necessary: to eliminate the absurd bias of tw*ts like Clattenburg. When you watch the replay, you see Hangeland watch the goal go in, then fall forwards. Asshole.

Like most ref's, he has a bias toward or against people.

He believes what the likes of Ferguson has said and does not referee games fairly.

He's already decided that Davies is a cheat and therefore he's unfit to referee a game fairly.

Again, video evicence would actually bring back fairness to the game, so it'll never happen. Can't have every team getting a fair crack of the whip now can we!

Glad Davies has opened his mouth on this one. If he wasn't paid so much, I'd be organising a whip round for the fine from the FA.

Davies is bob on here. Clattenberg looked all around after that goal went in. He looked at the linesman for help, but his flag didn't go up, so the last resort was to "disallow" it for a non-existent infringement.

It wasn't a "bad decision" it was clear demonstrable maliciouss bias!

Hate the way Referees are unaccountable and untouchable for their decisions.
They should really be forced to admit when they've made a mistake, post event. A bit like MP's - accountable to us, the fans.

In fact can we have a democratic voting system to select the referees for each season?

RobbieSavagesLeg wrote:

Hate the way Referees are unaccountable and untouchable for their decisions. They should really be forced to admit when they've made a mistake, post event. A bit like MP's - accountable to us, the fans. In fact can we have a democratic voting system to select the referees for each season?

Wouldn't work - the voting would be swamped by "Big four" glory hunters, and Rob Styles would referee every match....

He looks at himself in the mirror when he's knocking one out, that's for sure.

The bloke jogs around the pitch like the public have come to see him? Yeah, I pay money every week to see that sun-bed mong with his stupid hair-weave

What a d**k.

RobbieSavagesLeg wrote:

Hate the way Referees are unaccountable and untouchable for their decisions. They should really be forced to admit when they've made a mistake, post event. A bit like MP's - accountable to us, the fans. In fact can we have a democratic voting system to select the referees for each season?

This is perfectly reasonable, but will never happen. Football's governing bodies are all biased towards the big teams because they are the ones that bring in the television revenue, etc. Since the bad calls almost always favor big teams, FIFA will not do anything significant to reduce the number of bad calls.

Consider the Ireland/France debacle. If FIFA had put some sort of video evidence in place, France's goal wouldn't have counted and Henry would have been sent off. Ireland could have gone on to win the game. Then you've got Ireland, with 6 million people, in the World Cup, and France, with 65 million, out of it. This harms Platini's wallet (not to mention his national pride) and thus must never be allowed to happen.

H. Pedersen wrote:

RobbieSavagesLeg wrote: Hate the way Referees are unaccountable and untouchable for their decisions. They should really be forced to admit when they've made a mistake, post event. A bit like MP's - accountable to us, the fans. In fact can we have a democratic voting system to select the referees for each season? This is perfectly reasonable, but will never happen. Football's governing bodies are all biased towards the big teams because they are the ones that bring in the television revenue, etc. Since the bad calls almost always favor big teams, FIFA will not do anything significant to reduce the number of bad calls. Consider the Ireland/France debacle. If FIFA had put some sort of video evidence in place, France's goal wouldn't have counted and Henry would have been sent off. Ireland could have gone on to win the game. Then you've got Ireland, with 6 million people, in the World Cup, and France, with 65 million, out of it. This harms Platini's wallet (not to mention his national pride) and thus must never be allowed to happen.

Bet they would have found some way to replay the game had it been the other way round

I wouldn't be surprised. The changed the rules once with that stupid "seeding" thing. Dunno why they wouldn't do it again.

Davies saw a late headed goal ruled out for a push on Brede Hangeland during the 0-0 draw on Saturday, and boss
Owen Coyle said after the match: "Everybody in the stadium knew it was a good goal bar one man.

H. Pedersen wrote:

Henry would have been sent off. Ireland could have gone on to win the game. Then you've got Ireland, with 6 million people, in the World Cup, and France, with 65 million, out of it. This harms Platini's wallet (not to mention his national pride) and thus must never be allowed to happen.

Henry wouldn't have been sent off, although he could have been booked.

Ireland could have gone on to win the game on penalties, but so could France.

Among the countries who have qualified for the World Cup are Slovakia at the expense of Poland (who are co-hosting Euro 2012) and Slovenia (population 2.04m) at the expense of Russia (population 141.8m).

Platini is the president of UEFA, not FIFA.

Apart from that...

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:

H. Pedersen wrote: Henry would have been sent off. Ireland could have gone on to win the game. Then you've got Ireland, with 6 million people, in the World Cup, and France, with 65 million, out of it. This harms Platini's wallet (not to mention his national pride) and thus must never be allowed to happen. Henry wouldn't have been sent off, although he could have been booked. Ireland could have gone on to win the game on penalties, but so could France. Among the countries who have qualified for the World Cup are Slovakia at the expense of Poland (who are co-hosting Euro 2012) and Slovenia (population 2.04m) at the expense of Russia (population 141.8m). Platini is the president of UEFA, not FIFA. Apart from that...

bravo DSB - tarradiddles of this magnitude cannot go unchallenged!

RobbieSavagesLeg wrote:

Hate the way Referees are unaccountable and untouchable for their decisions. They should really be forced to admit when they've made a mistake, post event. A bit like MP's - accountable to us, the fans. In fact can we have a democratic voting system to select the referees for each season?

I agree that refs and linesmen need to be more accountable. In fact, I think if they were they'd get less stick from players and managers as they'd have some offical way of venting their frustrations. However, as Neil Warnock said yesterday, what good does having an official suspended do if his decision has already cost your team a win? I just wish someone would come up with a way to introduce video technology into the game without making things worse... Sadly, I think it can only really be used for line decisions where there's never going to be any uncertainty when its reviewed.