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That’s 39 million views and counts as an incendiary social media post unlike anything ever noticed in English football.
The final whistle had just sounded on Sunday in Nottingham Forest’s 2-0 loss to Everton in the Premier League when a message on X, formerly Twitter, was posted through the frustrated wasteful club.
He went beyond criticizing the fit referees for their perceived incompetence due to the inability to award 3 consequences for what Forest said were 3 transparent fouls in the game’s dominance.
He pointed to potential foul play by questioning the integrity of VAR official Stuart Attwell, who the club says is a fan of a team, Luton, that is battling with Forest to avoid relegation.
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Upon signing, the message says Forest will “consider his options” on how to proceed.
The case seems to be no longer resolved, especially since the Premier League will most likely go after Forest heavily in the coming days for his advances.
Indeed, two-time European champions Forest have rarely stayed out of the news since returning to the Premier League last season, after a 24-year absence, under the control of huge owner Evangelos Marinakis.
The signing of a record 21 players at a cost of around $160 million in the first post-promotion transfer window showed that this is a club that would do things differently.
Forest had to pay for the madness, and the club recently received 4 fines for violating the league’s monetary rules. She looks great with this penalty.
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This season, with the team at risk of relegation again and lately in second-to-last place, Forest have followed an us-versus-the-world mentality for what they perceive as a series of poor refereeing decisions that hurt the team. He even hired a former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg as his agent this season.
Clattenburg pored over the decisions of competent referees and is accountable to Marinakis, a wealthy Greek shipping company and media mogul who, as owner of Olympiakos, Greece’s biggest club, is known for his frequent public outbursts against referees’ appeals and his brushes with the Greek Football Federation.
In his column for British newspaper The Daily Mail, Clattenburg wrote on Monday that Forest have had to “endure blatant refereeing” this season and that Everton have played “as bleak a game as they have experienced since their return to the Premier League. “League. . “
“This is a hat-trick between the howls of the refereeing team and, unfortunately for Forest, the continuation of an unfair trend that has hindered their fight for survival,” Clattenburg wrote.
An earlier incident that infuriated Forest (and prompted Marinakis to go down to the touchline to express his displeasure and then to referee Paul Tierney) occurred in the team’s 1-0 home defeat to Liverpool in March.
The winning goal came in the 9th minute of stoppage time (only 8 minutes had been conceded) and only after a debatable decision by the referee, with Forest missing the ball when play was stopped after Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate won a hit on the ball. Walking towards a Forest corner before the goal.
Tierney blew the whistle with Forest in possession on the edge of the Liverpool area. After Konate temporarily recovered, the referee left the ball to Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, who then introduced the attack that led to the goal.
Clattenburg said the ball went back to the team that owned it when play was stopped.
It turns out to be an apparent refereeing error, like the one committed in Liverpool’s defeat to Tottenham in October when there was confusion in the communication between the on-field referee and the VAR.
After the bug, Liverpool said it would “explore the diversity of features available, given the apparent need for escalation and resolution. “
Tensions are at an all-time high and the finances at stake in the lucrative Premier League are leading clubs (and their social media enthusiasts) to complain more boldly and openly, especially about the use of a video review formula that is proving to be the promised solution.
However, Forest has gone too far, according to Jamie Carragher, a former Liverpool and England defender who is now one of the top pundits for British broadcaster Sky Sports.
“What I read on social media is like a fan in a pub. It’s embarrassing from Nottingham Forest,” Carragher said.
“I’m frustrated, though, that VAR is a Luton fan, they can’t worry about that. You have to show a bit of elegance as a football club.
A message to ease the spirits came from Crystal Palace in a message sent through the club on X, following their 5-2 win over West Ham, which mimicked the language used by Forest in his incendiary tweet.
“Five goals, two goals conceded, which we simply have to accept,” Palace wrote.
“The palace will now be your Sunday. “
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