The 39 million views and follower count of an incendiary social media post is unlike anything seen in English football. The final whistle blew in a 2-0 defeat of Nottingham Forest he is new Everton in Premier League on Sunday when the losing club published a post on X, formerly Twitter.
In it, the referees were not only criticized for their incompetence in not awarding three penalties, which, according to forest, There were three clear fouls in the area during the match, but a possible foul play was pointed out by questioning the integrity of VAR (Stuart Attwell)who, according to the club, is a fan of a team, the Cookedwho are fighting with forest to avoid relegation.
He forestthe two-time European champions, have rarely failed to make the headlines since returning to the Premier League last season, after a 24-year absence, under the leadership of Evangelos Marinakis, the owner of the club. Signing a record 21 players for around $160 million in the first transfer window after promotion showed this was a club that would do things differently.
He forest He had to pay for it, and was recently docked four points for violating the league’s financial rules. This season, with the team once again threatened with relegation and currently in the penultimate position, the forest has adopted an “us against the world” mentality in what he sees as a series of poor refereeing decisions that are hurting the team.
Mark Clattenburg as advisor
He even hired a former Premier League referee, Mark Clattenburgas an advisor this season. Clattenburg is reviewing the referees’ decisions and responding to Marinakisa Greek shipping magnate and media baron who, as owner of Olympiakosthe biggest club in Greece, is known for its frequent public outbursts against refereeing decisions and its clashes with the Greek Football Federation.
In his column for the British newspaper The Daily Mail, Clattenburg wrote on Monday that the forest will have to “endure some bad tenures” this season and that the decisions of Everton made it “as fierce a match as they had encountered since returning to Premier League“It was a hat trick of errors by the refereeing team and, unfortunately for Forest, a continuation of an unfair trend that hampered their fight for survival,” he wrote. Clattenburg.
Other problems
A past event that made you angry forest -and ended up with Marinakis who went down to the touchline to express his displeasure and eventually approached the referee Paul Tierney– occurred in the team’s 1-0 home defeat against Liverpool in March.
The winning goal came in the ninth minute of added time – only eight minutes were allotted – and only after a controversial referee’s decision, as the forest the ball was not recovered when play was stopped after the defender of Liverpool Ibrahima Konate took a blow to the head from a Forest corner kick before the goal.
Tierney he blew his whistle with the forest holding the ball on the edge of the area Liverpool. After Konate quickly recovered, the referee gave the ball to the team’s goalkeeper. Liverpool, Caoimhin Kelleherwhich started the attack that finally led to the goal.
Clattenburg He noted that the ball must return to the team with possession when play is stopped. That seems like a clear refereeing error, as was done in the defeat of Liverpool against Tottenham in October, when there was a communication breakdown between the field referee and the VAR. Following that error, Liverpool said they were “exploring the range of options available, given the clear need for escalation and resolution.”
Tensions are rising and the finances at stake in the lucrative Premier League are leading clubs – and their fans on social media – to be bolder and more vocal in their complaints, particularly with the use of a review system in via video that does not prove to be the solution promised.
forest too far, however, according to Jamie Carragher, former Liverpool and England defender who is now one of the main commentators on the British network Sky Sports. “What I read on social media is typical of a fan in a pub. It’s a shame on Nottingham Forest’s part,” he said. Carragher. “I understand the frustration, but the rubbish, that VAR is a fan of Cooked…they can’t get into that. “They need to show a bit of class as a football club.”
He Crystal palace He tried to calm things down with a message he sent to X, after his 5-2 victory over West Ham, where he imitated the language used by Forest in their incendiary tweet. “Five very good goals – two goals conceded – that we just have to accept,” Palace wrote. “The Palace will enjoy their Sunday.”
Source: La Verdad
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