Mark Clattenburg admits refereeing Lionel Messi made him change the way he viewed games. The Barcelona icon shared a pitch with the British referee on a number of occasions, even receiving a telling off during one match.
But Clattenburg admits it was an honour to mediate games including the Argentinian, with Messi even altering how the referee saw games and officiated them. "When I first refereed Messi I was really excited," the Brit told Spanish outlet AS. "It was a Barcelona-PSG and when I was so close I remember thinking: 'Oh my gosh, this is amazing'. "When you referee you tend to look at the ball.
With it, you could lose sight of the ball. So imagine the defenders. "I had to change the way of analysing the situation when he had the
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