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Published 08:10 6 Dec 2017 GMT
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"I'd walked off that pitch at Stoke, which was always the coldest stadium, it was always wet and miserable, and refereeing Man United was never an easy match," Clatternburg added.
"To come off that match it felt immense that I'd actually had a good performance, and for him to come into my dressing room and criticise my performance for a handball that I'd seen, that had clearly come off his chest, I knew that I was right but he'd put a seed of doubt into my mind. "I drove home 250 miles thinking I'd made a big error. My wife knew my attitude had changed, and I thought to myself, 'Do I really want to be a part of this anymore? Do I really want to referee?' "And I went soul-searching, I wasn't enjoying it as much as I used to and I had to get out."Out he got and he ended up in a lucrative job with the regular stresses of displeasing multi-million pound footballers, their managers and legions of fans.
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