A post-match clash with Jose Mourinho led ref Clattenburg to quit the Premier League

He made up his mind on a cold, wet night at Stoke.

A post-match clash with Jose Mourinho led ref Clattenburg to quit the Premier League

Mark Clattenburg quit his job as a Premier League referee due to a dressing-room dressing-down by Jose Mourinho, writes Stephen Barry.

Clattenburg referred the FA Cup final, Champions League final and Euro 2016 final in the space of seven weeks in the summer of 2016, but by February 2017 he had left the continent to become Saudi Arabia’s head of referees.

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