Early English rule Mark Clattenburgwith his official resignation to the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association in the past few hours, to leave his position on the Referees Committee as a technical advisor.
There has been a lot of speculation recently about Clatenberg’s position on leaving or continuing in his position, with some objections that appeared in previous rounds regarding the decisions of some referees in the Egyptian League matches.
and taught “btolat.com” From a reliable source, Clattenburg has already submitted his resignation to the Egyptian Football Association due to his exclusion from decisions to appoint referees for one of the current round matches.
We reveal with you the scenes of Clattenburg’s resignation, which dates back to previous months, since he assumed the position of technical advisor to the Referees Committee in the Egyptian Football Association, as follows:
– The former English international referee did not disappear, but was deliberately removed by the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association, and this is what is said in the Egyptian media only, but they did not contact Clattenburg despite having his official e-mail as well as his personal numbers, and when Clattenburg asked for proof that they had contacted him , ignore him.
– The members of the current Referees Committee changed the referee of the Al-Ahly and Al-Ahly Bank match today, without Clattenburg’s knowledge, as well as the Pyramids and Smouha match today.
– Clattenburg officially submitted his resignation due to the interventions of the former head of the Referees Committee, Essam Abdel Fattah, and even contacted the former international referee from Seychelles, Eddie Mayer, to lead the committee instead of the Englishman.
– Clattenburg was very angry at the imposition of the previous referee, Tawfiq Al-Sayed, within the Referees Committee, as well as Ahmed Abu El-Ela, especially since the former always wanted to change the names of the referees appointed for some matches in the previous weeks, which he met with objection from the Englishman.
(Muhadith) The Football Association responds to Clattenburg’s accusations in an official statement
Tawfiq Al-Sayed appointed Muhammad Al-Hanafi, and he is not the referee that Clattenburg had previously chosen for that match to please Pyramids, and this has been happening since the latter’s statement against the League and arbitration, as the name of the referee of the Zamalek match in the Egypt Cup was leaked to Pyramids club officials (this was what appeared later in one of the programs TV) to ease the anger in Pyramids, and only Al-Sayed and Ahmed Abu El-Ela knew the name of the referee
– Tawfiq Al-Sayed believes that Muhammad Al-Hanafi is a wonderful referee, unlike Clattenburg, who he sees as not suitable for managing matches in the Egyptian League. He may be able to be in the video room, but as an arena referee he is not suitable, and his decision was to move away from Al-Hanafi because he made six fatal mistakes in matches this season and with It runs the matches every round which gives the other referees an impression of unfairness.
– Clattenburg did not feel the support of the Egyptian Football Association in the crisis of the accusations of the president of Zamalek, Mourtada Mansourand accusing him of having a relationship with a man and marrying him in Egypt, which reached his daughter abroad, who spoke with her father with great sadness about that information, which is completely untrue.
– Clattenburg was angry at his last meeting with the Egyptian Football Association after his complaint about Mortada Mansour’s false accusations, and one of his close associates advised him to go to the British embassy to complain about repeated insults.
– Clattenburg did not receive his salary and left Egypt 4 days ago, despite the Football Association’s promise to the referee that he would receive it on January 16, but he did not receive it until January 20, and he traveled and did not receive the amount on his personal account.
– Clattenburg feels that he has been betrayed. He did not want the master to reconcile with him, but rather Samir Othman, but the Football Association completely rejected the matter for no apparent reason.
– Clattenburg believed that there was a clear bias by Tawfiq Al-Sayed in favor of Zamalek in his matches, and he wanted to put Amin Omar in the Al-Ahly and Enppi match, which is the next round of the Zamalek-Aswan match, in which Zamalek officials attacked the referee, and this was rejected by Clattenburg.
– Tawfiq Al-Sayed angered Clattenburg again by appointing one of the video referees in a match for Al-Ahly, contrary to the desire of the Englishman, because it was clear to him that he was against the Red Genie in one of the previous matches, and the VAR referee summoned the referee without any apparent reason.
– One of the things that angered Clattenburg also was that there was a plan for referee appointments in the matches, and one of the officials leaked it, so the former English referee announced the appointments one day before each round by e-mail, and for this reason they excluded him from the referees’ options this round and said that he did not respond to his phone.
– Clattenburg believes that there is a state of chaos within the referees’ committee, and they do not want to follow the right path, and when he was analyzing the mistakes, they did nothing, and this is what happened in one of Al-Ahly’s unaccounted goals last August, and the match ended in a goalless draw.
Clattenburg, when he came to Egypt, did not agree to be the head of the Referees Committee, but only as an advisor. There was no clause in his contract obligating him to be in Egypt. It was in his contract that he would not receive any salary during the World Cup period, but he was analyzing matches with the referees. To correct the mistakes, he returned to Egypt a week ago, despite the terms of the contract after the World Cup, but he left to spend the Christmas vacation before returning and attending the meetings of the Egyptian Football Association’s board of directors.
Clattenburg is confident that some people will be changed by officials in the Egyptian Football Association, and according to the source information, he will speak publicly on Thursday about all the reasons that led to his resignation and expose what was happening inside the Referees Committee.