Let’s talk about Nottingham Forest

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

The media all over the place doubling down

"Don't let the 'smaller' clubs question the status quo!"

 

[paultheblue]

All three appeals could have been given but none of them were clear cut sometimes you get them sometimes you don't. They were just unlucky not to get 1 of 3 in the game.
The ref didn't give any and VAR agreed with him.
As for the VAR fella being a Luton fan so What?
Why would he favour us ? We are just as much in the mix as Forest maybe even it would have been better for Luton if we had lost bearing in mind they have a chance to do us serious damage at there ground
Forests chairman is a bit of a crackpot and maybe football isn't the game for him.

 

[kev]

The one thing I don't understand about the Nottingham Forest 'statement' is the point about Atwell being a Luton fan. Why would that make him biased in our favour?
As stated on a Luton forum -

"Given that we have got to play Everton, surely if Attwell was determined to help us, he would have done everything in his power for a Forest victory."

 

[Nymzee]

Enjoyable reading:

Snatchday 1: Nottingham Forest Vs the PGMOL

This Tweet is getting a lot of talk and exposure now, so I think it's worth it's own thread... Random selection of both good and bad comments...

www.forestforum.co.uk

 

[Nymzee]

I wonder if Forest fans would have still been asking for Atwell to be taken off the game if they'd been given the pens yesterday.

 

[trueblue84]

There's a way they could have gone about this where they might have actually done some good overall by calling out the top six bias

If they'd waited until today to say something and put out a more measured response maybe

You can see how desperate Sky are to shut down the notion that top six sides get an easier go of it from referees. They do NOT want this brought to wider attention and clearly want to have Forest shoved back in their box

However, Forest are playing into their hands by coming off as borderline deranged with the language they're using

A good opportunity missed I think

Not sure why Luton fans would want us to beat forest? That's where their argument loses all credibility. If we drew or lost, Luton would be much more confident as we have to play them. Us winning changes nothing for Luton, other than there is a club who is only 1 point above them.

 

[Toffeeslam]

Forest and the tv pundits can whinge and whine all they want about penalties… the referee Anthony Taylor was adamant on the field that none of them were and then VAR reviewed all three and they too decided they were not penalties.

VAR is there primarily to decide if there was a clear and obvious error by the referee, and not once, not twice but, THREE times, VAR said there was not.

End of story.
Was it tough on Forest… NO !!!

To be fair if those decisions went against us I’d be raging and speaking objectively that last one was stonewall.

It’s a rare week where we got away with one

 

[tonyhorne]

The more players try to cheat and the better they get at it, the worse referees are at distinguishing genuine fouls (the 3rd claim) from a dive (the first).

Funny that ...

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I was made up when Forest got promoted.

90 seconds of the game it took them to start the poverty chanting yesterday. NINETY SECONDS. Some reports of them chanting "sign on" while Beto was down unconscious.

Jumped on the "we might sue Everton" bandwagon when we got our first charge... then all their fans want "solidarity" now it's happened to them.

They can GTF. Hope they go down and stay there.

 

[Connor]

Loool

 

[ToffeeTim]

Loool

Very bizarre

 

[Toffeeslam]

Loool

That tweet I think was more for the fans then anything else which is nuts.

Why go public with a tweet like that when there are official channels to express dissatisfaction with a referee ?

Forest fans must be embarrassed by that tweet and if not they should be

 

[judge]

It shows the industrial size stupidity of Danny Murphy when he said that the fact that the Forest playes placed his foot on the ground during the first penalty appeal meant that it wasn't a penalty (as it wasn't enough to make him fall over). If he had been one of those players who gets kicked/tripped on his right foot and then throws his left foot up to ensure he falls over (IE: he dives) then Mensa Murphy would consider that to be a penalty. It's idiots like this that make it easier for the cheats to prosper.

 

[degsy]

I was made up when Forest got promoted.

90 seconds of the game it took them to start the poverty chanting yesterday. NINETY SECONDS. Some reports of them chanting "sign on" while Beto was down unconscious.

Jumped on the "we might sue Everton" bandwagon when we got our first charge... then all their fans want "solidarity" now it's happened to them.

They can GTF. Hope they go down and stay there.

All together now...

We hate Nottingham Forest etc, etc.

 

[trueblue84]

I'm glad forest have taken the fall, but they've said what everyone was thinking. They just fell into the trap of thinking it was about them.
There is no corruption against one club. There is however corruption in so much as the premier league is promoting their brand and ensuring the sky 6 are kept sweet and there is always a relegation battle on the last day of the season.