Clattenburg was asked to profile the Premier League referees but laid into two officials who he was never best friends with. He has laid the boot into Premier League referee Jon Moss - by saying he looks "eight months pregnant". Clattenburg has openly claimed that he is not a fan of Moss both on and off the pitch following their time working together in the PGMOL. The former European Championship and Champions League Final ref also claims that he never saw eye-to-eye with Martin Atkinson - and that he was delighted to beat him to biggest appointments. Clattenburg quit the Premier League in 2017 having officiated in the league for 13 years. He became one of the most highly-rated officials in the game and was subsequently given the biggest matches. But he has become a Marmite figure in the refereeing ranks - and he had not held back on his former colleagues.
Clattenburg run the rule over the current Premier League crop of officials for Paddy Power's Pitch Invader magazine. On Moss, he said: "Big mates with Martin Atkinson so that sums him up. A good player, a good footballer, but he supported a s*** team like Sunderland. I didn't really take to him and he liked a lot of the politics - I was more worried about doing my job. I don't really rate him as a referee, either. When I trained with him he looked like a fit guy but now he looks like he's about eight months pregnant."
He was equally as damning in his assessment of Atkinson, saying: "Me and him fell out so I've not got anything positive to say about him. I never really got on with him when I was in the Premier League and we never really saw eye-to-eye. Thing is, he's an ex-copper - and he was that type of person on a football pitch. Off the pitch, in the group, I didn't integrate well with him either. When I was fighting him for the Euros and the Champions League in 2016, he didn't like it when I got both finals. Sorry, Martin."
The reports were not all doom and gloom. Clattenburg gave positive feedback to Michael Oliver, calling him "by far one of the best" and named him England's No.1. Mike Dean was described as "one of the better guys" and "one of the blokes you can trust". He also claims he has a lot of time for Andre Marriner and Lee Mason - albeit more so for their personalities.
