Date: 29th October 2012 at 3:00pm
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Former Premier League referee Jeff Winter believes Mark Clattenburg’s career would be over if he is found guilty of racially abusing Chelsea’s John Obi Mikel and Juan Mata during yesterday’s game at Stamford Bridge.

The west London club lodged an official complaint over the alleged use of ‘inappropriate language’ used by Clattenburg that was directed at two of their players, whilst the Daily Mail have reported that Clattenburg has been accused of making a racial slur towards Mikel and called Mata a ‘Spanish t**t’.

It was reported that Mikel went to the referee’s dressing room to demand an apology following the match, with chief executive Ron Gourlay and manager Roberto Di Matteo.

Winter says that his position will beĀ untenableĀ if he’s found guilty of the offence:

“If a match official has used racial insults or language to a player then he’s for the high jump. He won’t be getting a four-match or an eight-match ban, it’ll probably be the end of his career, but that is if indeed he did say anything.”

“I feel it very unlikely that Mark Clattenburg would be allowed to referee until it’s dealt with so we certainly don’t want this going on for weeks and months.”

However, I feel like this one is set to run and run much like the case between John Terry and Anton Ferdinand. The television pictures will be scrutinised and reports suggest that a number of players heard the alleged comments, whilst the other officials Michael McDonough, Simon Long and Michael Jones could be crucial as they were all wearing microphones during the game.

If the allegations are true then Clattenburg is never going to officiate a game ever again and rightly so, but if it is true, where does it leave the game?

Sources: Daily Mail and ESPN

 

2 responses to “Winter: Clattenburg’s career on the line”

  1. I say before that england is not a place to be,in italian football there is a lot of revelations,england cover there own but one day everything will be out I know that.man u with the english FA is doing everything to make sure that man u cary this season epl cup,that is not football yesterday match was plotted by FA and man u to beat the leg leaders,when the match started man u is wining by 2 zero the ref was cam immediately chelsea score 2 the ref start giving out reds too bad 4 english football

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