“Attack” Gratsani in Clattenberg – Indicates a block until the summer

Letter of protest and essentially resignation from Vangelis Gratsanis to Mark Clattenberg. The referee from the Association of Trikala, who was appointed in Aris-PAS Giannina, which is scheduled for Saturday (20/11, 19:30), emphasizes that the English chief referee reduces the Greek referees with his behavior.

«You see your presence in the Greek refereeing exclusively as a means of your own promotion“, He comments, but also:”It is now understood that if it were up to you you would appoint foreign referees in all games».

The letter in detail

«Mark, after many years of my presence in the national category boards, I think that the time has come for me, now being a category A referee, to know when the situation is stagnant and when there is a process of improvement.

You with your movements clearly show that you see your presence as head of the Greek arbitration exclusively and only as a means of your own promotion.

When in the summer you reduced the tables of the category I belong to, you argued that you do it so that all Greek referees have more experience through the participations. It has now been realized that if it were up to you you would appoint foreign referees in all games. You have not raised the slightest objection to this process, something that can be seen from your movements.

All this at least reduces me personally both as a person and as a referee. Do not forget that you are hosted in a country that has experienced for many years guardianship in the bad sense of the word.

But it has to show a spirit of culture and noble sports over time. My personal journey in the field (which you neither know nor have tried to know – after all, I have not yet published my autobiography) does not allow me in these circumstances to work with a man who wants to dissolve what has remained standing in the Greek arbitration.

You reduce the Greek referees with your presence, while with the name you have you should raise their prestige. Therefore, when you withdraw from the Greek reality, I will reconsider my attitude.

Surely the Arbitration will exist without me. As it was before. As for the aftermath, with the conditions you impose I am not so optimistic. Like you, you should not be so proud of the fact that in the first months of this year, an international referee has already left and another declares that he stops providing his services for the exact same reasons.

My obstacle is valid from today until the end of the year. And I will certainly not attend Saturday’s race. Besides, if you do not have an alternative Greek option, you will end up with a foreign colleague.

Sincerely,

Gratsanis Vangelis

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