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I believe that he will better than Melo Pereira.

Greek refereeing has suffered a lot these last years. After Kyros Vassaras left HFF the quality of referees and their education has become worse. We need someone who will care and who will enforce Meritocracy. Because that's what is missing from Greece. Referees are promoted through public relations and not for their performances. I think that Clatts should change that immediately.

I wish him every success on his work. I will, from time to time, inform you of his work.

A small update on Clattenburg and Greece.

Clattenburg every Tuesday makes a video and analyzes every major decision in SL. It's a positive move for the fans even though, sometimes, his views are a little weird. He held a press conference a few days ago and answered many questions from the media.

Now to the difficult part. His problems and mistakes. Despite the fact that the SL list has 28 referees not all of them are qualified for VAR. 8 of them are new and can't whistle a match until they have some VAR training. So he is forced to appoint the same referees over and over again despite of their mistakes. Moreover one of the "big 4" teams (Olympiakos) announced that they withdrew their confidence on Clattenburg because he kept all of Pereira's Greek partners (Tritsonis, Koukoulakis, Kalyvas, Iosifoglou). IMO, that was his 1st mistake. He should have brought fresh members to help him. Keeping Tritsonis and Koukoulakis (who are partly responsible for the Greek refereeing mess) certainly doesn't pass a correct message to the media and fans.

Moreover his 2nd mistake is that he allowed Melo Pereira to make the refereeing lists for every category without Mark having any say on them. He had almost a month to learn the referees but unfortunately he chose to allow Pereira to form the lists.