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🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the greatest game with me, Jamie Caragher. With each week I will speak |
0:09.6 | to a footballer or a football fan, about 13, they love a football and find out what is |
0:15.4 | their greatest game. We have a first on the podcast for this week's episode, we've heard |
0:21.8 | the footballers and football fans now I think it's time to hear from someone else who's |
0:26.6 | out there on the football pitch every week, a referee. Mark Klattemberg reached the |
0:31.8 | very top, refereeing in some of the most prestigious matches in football, including the 2016 Champions League |
0:38.2 | and European Championship Finals. He's seen it all, apart from one or two decisions that |
0:42.9 | should have gone against me. So here is the greatest game with Mark Klattemberg. |
0:47.2 | Delighted to be joined by one of England's best referees, certainly in the last 20-30 years, |
0:56.7 | maybe longer, will ask him when he comes on. But referee joins us today, Mark Klattemberg joins |
1:03.5 | us on the greatest game, delighted to have you on, Mark. Thanks for having us on. Yeah, good. So |
1:09.4 | your referee who progressed basically from the bottom to the absolute pinnacle in referee |
1:17.8 | and teams, can you explain what that journey is like for referees trying into the game now or |
1:25.9 | start at a younger level, basically? What do you have to go through? The first |
1:30.5 | body we're going to pass an exam, which is the laws of the game exam, which is probably one of |
1:34.2 | the easiest things you can do. So everybody should pass, therefore that's the easy bit. The hardest |
1:40.5 | bit is when you go across the white line and you start the journey of being a referee from the |
1:45.5 | grassroots. If you've got enough, you can move through all the levels all the way to the top |
1:50.7 | of the top of the tree, which is what? International football Premier League. But when I first started, |
1:56.1 | I always wanted to be a football player for sure. I always wanted to play for Newcastle United. |
2:00.5 | I think every child wants to play for their hometown and I just wasn't good enough. Went for |
2:06.1 | trials, different players, but I just knew I wasn't good enough. So took a breath for Ian, |
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