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  • "Several posts on here about dodgy decisions NEVER evening themselves out.

    Well yesterday I was at the game and they did I have to admit. Clear shirt pull by Shaw in the firsr half - not given. Never a pen in the second half - gioven - err that seems a bit even I think!!

    Don't get me wrong I was furious at the late decision but if I was a Norwich fan I would have been equally furious at the first one.

    As a kid (jumpers for goal posts and all that)n if you were kicked my coach would say get up and don't let him know he hurt you. Now if an opponent gets within a f@rts breath of you the coach tells you to try and con the ref and get the other guy sent off! So everyone in football including the fans gave to accept that because refs are being 'played' they are going to get some decisions wrong. So we've just got to accept it.

    If we want better refs - the coaches and players have to look at themselves first and make it easier for a ref to give a good decision. Not ranting and raging that the ref got it wrong. Unless of course we want to sanitise the sport further by eliminating any form of contact and revert to a zonal game with a maximum number of passes before possession has to be given up to the other team.

    Rant over.

    Great performance on a dreadful surface. Another omne that got away. It's going to be a close one!"
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Pochettino apologises for Clattenburg confrontation

5:51pm Saturday 9th March 2013 in Sport

Mauricio Pochettino Mauricio Pochettino

Mauricio Pochettino has apologised for storming onto the pitch to remonstrate with referee Mark Clattenburg after his side were held to a goalless draw at Norwich.

Saints played superbly well in the snow and rain at Carrow Road and should have had the game won before Clattenburg awarded Norwich an injury time penalty for a foul by Luke Shaw on Grant Holt.

Saints disagreed with the decision and saw what they perceived to be justice done as Boruc dived to his right to make the save and preserve the point.

After the game Pochettino came onto the pitch to confront Clattenburg but afterwards was repentant.

He said: “I do know that (you shouldn’t go on the pitch) and I apologise.

“Sometimes you can lose control a little but us managers have to control ourselves.

“Sometimes I feel as if I am playing the game as well on the sidelines.”

He added: “I am happy overall with the team’s performance because we regained that fighting spirit that perhaps we lost a little bit against QPR.

“I think my team played better than last week and in the 90th minute before that penalty was given we deserved to be leading the game.

“So my anger was double fold that it shouldn’t have been a penalty and that we should have been up in the game by that time.”

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