{"id":290181,"date":"2011-03-05T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/05\/referee-mark-clattenburg-considered-quitting-over-wayne-rooney-incident-in-wigan-manchester-united-clash\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T09:07:00","slug":"referee-mark-clattenburg-considered-quitting-over-wayne-rooney-incident-in-wigan-manchester-united-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/referee-mark-clattenburg-considered-quitting-over-wayne-rooney-incident-in-wigan-manchester-united-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee Mark Clattenburg considered quitting over Wayne Rooney incident in Wigan-Manchester United clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Jake Watson<\/h3>\n<h4>5 Mar 2011 09:07:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"67.8873198847\">\n<div readability=\"17.9718309859\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL: Alex Ferguson and Mark Clattenburg, Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United (PA)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/9f9bc2f724671_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL: Alex Ferguson and Mark Clattenburg, Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United (PA)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"34.650887574\"><\/p>\n<p>An unnamed referee has claimed that Mark Clattenburg considered quitting the game as he felt &#8220;powerless&#8221; following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1681\/wayne-rooney\">Wayne Rooney<\/a>&#8216;s elbowing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/ireland\/31982\/james-mccarthy\">James McCarthy<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a>&#8216;s victory over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/536\/wigan-athletic\">Wigan Athletic<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Clattenburg has been widely criticised for not spotting the incident at Wigan last week, though he did award a free-kick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark\u2019s been castrated by the FA,\u201d said one anonymous official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s felt about giving it all up,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>Clattenburg was unable to sanction any punishment for Rooney after the game as he had already dealt with the incident during play \u2013 Fifa rules do not allow the re-refereeing of incidents if a decision had already been made at the time.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed official said: \u201cAny form Mark was sent [after the game] would have contained two questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first part would say: \u2018Did you see the incident, the coming together of players?\u2019 Mark couldn\u2019t lie. He\u2019d not seen the elbow but he\u2019d seen a coming together, because he awarded a free kick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn these emails, there\u2019s an attachment saying that if you haven\u2019t seen the incident, go to the second part. That has a  clip and you have to re-referee the clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Mark was powerless. He\u2019d been honest and said he\u2019d seen the incident. Having seen the incident again on TV, he knew it was a red card by Rooney but he couldn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/05\/2380143\/referee-mark-clattenburg-considered-quitting-over-wayne\" title=\"Referee Mark Clattenburg considered quitting over Wayne Rooney incident in Wigan-Manchester United clash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Referee Mark Clattenburg considered quitting over Wayne Rooney incident in Wigan-Manchester United clash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jake Watson 5 Mar 2011 09:07:00 EPL: Alex Ferguson and Mark Clattenburg, Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United (PA) Related Links Players An unnamed referee has claimed that Mark Clattenburg considered quitting the game as he felt &#8220;powerless&#8221; following Wayne Rooney &#8216;s elbowing of James McCarthy in Manchester United &#8216;s victory over Wigan Athletic last weekend. Clattenburg has been widely criticised for not spotting the incident at Wigan last week, though he did award a free-kick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Referee Mark Clattenburg considered quitting over Wayne Rooney incident in Wigan-Manchester United clash - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/referee-mark-clattenburg-considered-quitting-over-wayne-rooney-incident-in-wigan-manchester-united-clash\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Referee Mark Clattenburg considered quitting over Wayne Rooney incident in Wigan-Manchester United clash - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Jake Watson 5 Mar 2011 09:07:00 EPL: Alex Ferguson and Mark Clattenburg, Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United (PA) Related Links Players An unnamed referee has claimed that Mark Clattenburg considered quitting the game as he felt &quot;powerless&quot; following Wayne Rooney &#039;s elbowing of James McCarthy in Manchester United &#039;s victory over Wigan Athletic last weekend. 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