Nottingham Forest have accused Stuart Attwell, the VAR for his or her contentious 2-0 defeat at Everton, of being a Luton City fan after a sequence of appeals for penalties by Forest had been turned down.
Forest had penalty appeals waved away on three separate events by match referee Anthony Taylor with the on-field selections endorsed by Attwell within the VAR hub.
After the sport, Forest posted on X, previously Twitter: “Three extraordinarily poor selections – three penalties not given – which we merely can not settle for.
“We warned the PGMOL that the VAR is a Luton fan earlier than the sport however they did not change him. Our persistence has been examined a number of occasions.
“NFFC will now contemplate its choices.”
The defeat at Goodison Park leaves Nuno Espirito Santo’s facet one level higher off than 18th-placed Luton with 4 video games remaining.
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Sky Sports activities’ Jamie Carragher:
“It tells you the place we’re with the PL and the golf equipment now. [Stuart] Attwell and [Anthony]Taylor have had an terrible day at present, and they need to be criticised, however what I’ve simply learn there is sort of a fan in a pub. That’s embarrassing from Nottingham Forest.
“Garbage: the VAR is a Luton fan? You possibly can’t get entangled in that. You must present class as a soccer membership. That’s nonsense.”
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