Nottingham Forest: Mark Clattenburg leaves analyst role with Premier League club
Former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg leaves his role with Nottingham Forest, saying his position had "become more of a hindrance than help" to the club.
www.bbc.co.uk
Decided to avoid the obvious puns in the title. However the standout comment for me is this;
“It has also led to the unmerited targeting of me, personally, by certain participants and pundits," he said”
There’s a real case of making a rod for his own back here. Abuse is wrong, but he painted a target on his back and through serious errors of judgement he’s been hammered. I’m not sympathetic regardless of his intentions when taking on the role.
Any integrity he had was lost when failing to quit following or condemn the social media outburst and then doubling down with his newspaper article. That had the hallmarks of taking a shot at PGMOL for stopping his World Cup participation in 2018.