There is nothing wrong with saying the truth. They were cheated in broad daylight. At least 2 of them were crystal clear. You can't blame them for coming out to complain. So you are saying people should not complain for fear of retaliation?

Funny how all of the media is defending their mates but 95%’of fans agree with Forest.

If it’s not the club then who should talk up shut your mouth Craig

Pundits are out of touch with fans

Forest are 100% correct. Good on them. The PGMOL are a corrupt bunch of incompetent bellendz. Officials deserve the same abuse this lot give players and managers. These pundits are quick to slam players and managers but not refs. Howard Webb needs sacking.

So what is the premier league going to do about var? They have been absolutely atrocious!!!!

As a LFC fan, we've hurt ourselves this month. But the VAR and PGMOL has screwed us all season. It's a joke, bravo to NFFC for their statement. You see bullshit, you call it out.

It’s facts tho this is rubbish decisions by supposed professional Referees

Well done Forest 👏 ... Corrupt PGMOL rightly needs to GO 💯 ..

So now we know ESPN FC pundits are also getting paid by Sky.

Why pundits want us to think that referees are beyond corruption?

Forest are not wrong at all. Why is the PGMOL above reproach? How come nobody can hold them accountable? Were they wrongly denied three penalties? Forest don't need sympathy, they need three points to avoid the drop. Will PGMOL take accountability if they go down?

Not a single pundit has any back bone. It was cheating plain and simple

Officiating in the PL is a shambles. Three obvious penalties being waived off “Has crossed the line” for referee incompetence. Enough is enough. Go Forrest !

Neville, Carragher, Burley all trotting out and parroting the same stuff…I mean how long do you go before you start calling this inconsistency out. There’s no accountability and this year has been absolute nightmare. Take the two F.A. Cup semi finals two almost identical situations where the ball has hit a player’s upper arm that’s reasonably close to his body. Yesterday’s quite rightly not given, but today it’s a penalty. If they can’t get that right then what chance is there ? If you keep on making mistake after mistake then tempers flare and emotions get highland you have more chance of what you saw today happening. It needs sorting but oh know it’s being deflected yet again by you guys putting all the floodlights on Forest.

forest are 100% correct 👍

What is the club supposed to with 3 possible penalties waved away. They have had a few things go against them, so all the get is an apology. They are trying to stay up, yet poor officiating looks like it could cost them their place.

Most fans think the pgmol is corrupt. Based on the double standards in almost every game. Its about time someone from a team said it.

This isn't the first time Forest have been screwed. They are right to call out the pathetic officiating

STEVIE! Mike Dean has literally admitted to corruption in games, and knowing of more. It does happen. I agree it's a truly OTT and disgusting statement from Forest, and I put 99% of bad decisions down to sheer fecklessness, but let's not pretend these jokers from PGMOL are above reproach

Why can you not talk of both the message and wrong decisions

There is no way Craig agreed all three should have been penalties but says the club can’t call it out. What are they supposed to do? How blindly ignorant does Stevie have to be to say there’s never been any referee bias or blatant corruption when refs have come out and admitted it. We all have eyes. Look no further than the head of the organization Howard Webb and his infamous treatment of Man U…

No way they said the fans will not have sympathy for Forrest, these guys are so out of touch.

Why are they blaming the owners 😂😂

Your out off touch with the fans VAR is destroying the game

Why do people think the refs cannot be corrupt ,they are humans ,we have players that are betting in England are they from other planets ?..Please give me break with all this holy are though sermon about refs in England .

We the fans of football support Forest 100%

Glad to see so many comments from fans of other clubs supporting Forest for calling this out. Pundits should take note, too many seem to be frightened to actually speak up on whats happening week in week out in the Premiership.

Isn't it be more important to focus on all the poor referee decisions?

This is the reason the officiating is so bad right now... Pundits always defend them after teams call them out.

Welp these guys clearly don't get it smh

This guy’s get paid to tell so many lies it’s a shame we media these days

For the whole season VAR and raffrees are moking teams and viewers doesn't thats cross the line. Shame on youPGMOL yet more shameful decisions are to come.. No integritty from PGMOL and VAR...

Why is not ok for the NFFC to react how they want if they feel they were unfairly treated which in this case they were. Blame the dishonesty of the officials rather than trying to blame the club for reacting.

The club talk how they feel because its tru

So out of 3 blatent penalties we get none... regardless of the corupt ref...

Saying this is what they do in Greece is smells like discrimination to me

I think it must be public, the PGMOL and VAR has gotten huge decisions wrong all season. Three penalties denied in one game needs fo be called out

Fans are tired of either cheating or horrible quality officiating. It's one or the other. Honestly, this should have already been talked about.

They can suggest Forest are out of line even to highlight that a var official is a Luton fan but there was obvious concern to raise the point. Then when you look at the decisions made it doesn’t seem such an unreasonable a request to be looked at. Yes it might come across as unprofessional but so are the inconsistencies with decision making in matches that are a weekly talking point with every team. Forest have just said what most of us fans think and had enough.

Forest said they'll explore their options. Thing is they don't have any options.

Imagine going to a restaurant, being served food and telling the manager "this chicken is not cooked", he ignores you and forces you to eat it, only for you to get food poisoning the next day. You come out the next day and say you warned the company, they forced you to eat it, and now you're in the mud. And then big name chefs around the world come out and say you're embarrassing and it's not the company's fault. This is what we're dealing with. They're all in bed with each other

Who wouldn't want integrity questioned? The world needs more integrity checks all round.

These pundits smoking a rare type of weed

The problem is that they tried the official channels. There's literally no other pathway for Forest to go now, so naturally they're going to go beyond the accepted line. I agree they shouldn't make official statements declaring officials as cheats, but it's clear that something has to change. Too many times this has happened with no recourse, change is going to be inevitable at this point.

We're gonna overlook that they have tried every other avenue and and they admit that there are 3 stonewall penalties that are not given... they don't even address the blatant at best ineptitude but just that they can't do this!

The fact that all the highlight videos don’t show the VAR decisions is highly telling.

The guy in VAR is a Luton fan, this is documented and true. Why has the PGMOL put a Luton fan to officiate the VAR in a game where Luton has interest?

How dare they state the obvious.

Forrest should have every right to call PGMOL out. I mean look at Man City with the Grealish handball, the soft penalty from Rodri and Hojlund, and the players rant after the game against Spurs. They don’t ever get punished and gets favourable calls.

Its VAR and the on field referee that crossed the line! I think clubs should protest against the continued use of PGMOL! They need to fire all the PGMOL officials, starting with Howard Webb. Quite disgusting!

Forest have followed the normal channels for a serious number of ‘professional errors’ that have cost them penalties, goals and a ridiculous sending off of Boly for having his foot stamped on earlier this season and absolutely nothing positive came of it so its neither surprising nor outrageous that they have chosen in this most extreme of cases to take a more unorthodox and powerful approach. Good for them, these problems must be dealt with in the spotlight not by deals in dark rooms. The media are simply apologists for the football establishment and are equally disgraceful.

John Oliver and others go to UAE and Saudi as "freelancers" DURING THE SEASON to ref random Emirati/Saudi league games (with DOZENS of fans in attendance!) flying them out privately, paying them exorbitantly, and putting them up in top hotels for a sunshine get away.... and Stevie never wonders if this affect their thinking when they make these "errors"???

Doesnt change the fact that we could have 12 year olds officiate the game better

Just playing devil's advocate: There have been cases where Premier League referees have been found guilty of taking bribes for march fixing etc Ex-referees have also made comments about favouring certain teams & giving decisions that they know aren't correct It's not as if the Premier League or Englishmen are never guilty of corruption There's a reason why officials aren't allowed to officiate games involving the team they support

English refs are the worst no other league got this much errors

Pundits have definitely lost the plot on this one. The refereeing has been a joke all season and you all just take the diplomatic approach.

I’m a casual PL football fan, and I like to occasionally watch it, but there isn’t any consistency in calling penalties. I don’t blame NF for calling it out. If I’m not mistaken this is big money?

Fair play to Forest. Nothing ever happens. The PGMOL is shockingly poor week on week on week and all ye hear is its happens. Not good enough. Those decisions could cost Forest millions

The main trouble is that Man City get 2/3 of those VAR (3 if Michael Oliver is the ref)

This likely what happened: forest complained about var and Webb told Attwell and he retaliated against forest. That was pure retaliation. “How dare you complain about me? I will deal with you.”

What about carra spitting cant remember everyone sitting down round a table and debating that. Birds of a feather flock together

Media bring this league down like you does

Why are all these pundits actually refusing to say the obvious or atleast pretend to be unbiased? The questions they should be asking are: 1. Is Stuart really a Luton fan? If yes, won't it be a conflict of interest to assist officiating in a game where one of the teams are directly fighting a spot with your favourite team? 2. Did Nottingham Forest officially notify the PGMOL about this multiple times, if yes, what was PGMOL reasons for not effecting change in other to avoid this scenario? It is hypocritical to assume that EPL referees are above corruption or bias, infact, it ks downright silly to think so, as that will be one projecting that they are Angels. They are just regular humans and that is why systems were created to check them and prevent cases that will question their integrity. Afterall just recently, the highest football organising body in the world (FIFA) was riddled with scandals of corruption and many were convicted.

Real football fans stand with Forest.

I love Craig coming out and saying “you know what, the guy is Greek, ok.”

Referees have to state which team they support and aren't allowed to referee their games so why are var allowed. And yes i would question the integrity too im a united fan so even if i thought i wouldn't be being biased i subconsciously would because i have a vested interest.

All these pundits are spineless

I'm a Leicester City Fan, Forest are our rivals and yet I Ave sympathy for Forest and feel they are right to release that statement.

Forest sour grapes, they got spanked by Everton. Ref was right on all three. If you see the third one, Young makes a touch with the ball but its hard to see due to the camera angle, and the Forest player trips on the ball as it rolls. The ref saw this clearly. Forest CEO a joke. Also, how would Luton gain an advantage??? Everton are almost just as close to Luton in the table! Forest should get points deducted for this behaviour.

You know that Burley knows Forest were correct when instead of saying they're wrong he's fannying around saying "its a crossed line" ...

The PGMOL whistle-blower documentary gonna be lit. Bet it won't feature on Netflix.

These guys keep saying the refs are poor but when clubs actually call it out the pundits say its crossing a line. What should Forest have done?

This pundits can't say the truth, robbing a club 3 penalties in a game come on make it make sense, if is man city or Liverpool it different

I think we should focus on why a club has to resort to doing it rather than the statement itself. Is it over the line? Maybe, but the main reason clubs feel they have to do this is because they feel hopeless. The officiating in this league is terrible, and nothing is being done about it. These referees face no consequences for the bad decisions they make on a weekly basis.

What’s mental is that now PGMOL is offering Forrest a chance to listen to the audio for the VAR decisions. Is there a legal way to determine this audio was recorded on the date and time of these incidents taking place which would stand up on the court of law. If that isn’t possible to conclusively be determined, then they could quite easily fabricate these tapes after the fact, and if times and dates aren’t being provided with proof, then I believe that’s exactly what is going on. People that think officials haven’t been corrupt subtle this whole time are deluded. All those years they favoured United, all these years they’ve favoured city, and it’s just been swept under the carpet somehow. Now VAR is there to expose them, there’s nowhere to hide and questions are being asked, but they are being protected by the media. Not all media platforms, but all ones that are being backed but the same corruption that is making sure certain clubs get calls in their favour. The biggest culprit in English football right now is Manchester City, by a landslide might I add. But it’s more fashionable to say ‘livarpool’ with no real basis behind it 😂. English fans are as much the issue as the media and the corrupt officials for not calling out the bullshit.

People are missing the point, club should lodge a complaint, it's that simple. You got problem with the food at the restaurant? You go speak to the manager. You don't stand on a chair and start crying about it. Any 8 year old could post on Twitter, makes the club look foolish and adds unncessary pressure on the officials. Not to mention the tweet insinuates that there is corruption happening with VAR, which is even worse! You have an issue with the referee making mistakes, that we understand. But to question the referee's integrity? BEFORE a ball is even kicked? I hope they get more points deducted. I hope they get points deducted and they get automatically relegated.

Of course we'll never know if the decisions are right or wrong if the evidence isn't shown. Is there some reason that the footage is unavailable everywhere? Feels kinda selective...

Why do pundits insist on defending in indefensible? The beef here seems to be that NFFC are saying that the VAR could be biased cause he's a Luton fan. Are we saying that there is simply no risk of that at all? Prior to the game, what did they think might happen if there were contentious decisions and they were told and did nothing about it. Has no pundit nor the PGMOL ever heard of unconscious bias? The other question I have is: At what point is it ok to take this to the next level as Forest have done? Week in week out we see this happening, Forest I think have had the worst of them this season, but its other teams too and the managers and pundits never call it out for what it is, they just say refs do a hard job and move on, theres no accountability. Just how bad and blatant does the infringement have to be and not given before people are allowed to say 'Hang on a second, what on earth is going on here?' Its not just 1 decision today, is 3 clear and obvious pens, so if its not bias, it's utter incompetence. It's one or the other and it's not good enough. That's where Forest are right now, at a loss as to where they go with this because theres no clear path for recourse.

ESPN, I hate you guys for this. You just admit it yourself that they were cheated on three occasions in one game. How do you expect them to deal with it. You are just here to do a cover up job for the FA and referees.

These pundits jobs require the denial of corruption, as they wouldn’t get paid because the games wouldn’t be played.

I don't blame Forrest at all, I wouldn't call it cheating but bias is a word I'd use, Mike Dean failed to suggest to on-field referee Anthony Taylor to consider a red card offence. He said, ''I didn’t want to send him up because he is a mate as well as a referee and I think I didn’t want to send him up because I didn’t want any more grief than he already had.''

The problem isnt the referee’s bias for certain clubs, it’s the bias against.

Pundits ganging up on Forest like they did with Liverpool against Spurs. All part of the problem that fails to acknowledge issues with the officials.

Pundits lose sympathy. Fans of the sport don’t lose it. It’s a disgrace to not award any of the 3 penalties. Call the var out, I don’t care. I want equality for all the teams.

yeahh the most honest refs , the best league , the best players , the best teams, the best ownership model...everything is the best in England

It's almost like putting Real Madrid TV muppets in the anchor's seat at ESPN. Oh, wait...

It is important to provide a complete and unbiased coverage of events. Perhaps, it would be helpful to consider including all relevant details and not just a summary of one's perspective. This will give the audience a chance to form their own opinions and draw their own conclusions.

It really hasn't. This game was just a small sample of what they've faced all season. It's reaching absurd points

So Steve Nicol says he's never thought the refs were not honest. Guess he never heard Mike Dean saying he didn't want to send his mate to VAR so let a decision be wrong. Come on Stevie...you can do better.

So basically they should shut up, because refs are so full of integrity, arent biased and cant be corrupted. More clubs need to start questioning these things. Forest are spot on

When you have too much this is too much

Wonder if Steve lambasted Liverpool when they released the identical statement

WELDONE FOREST, WE NEED MORE TEAMS TO SPEAK UP AND NOT JUST ACCEPT THIS RUBBISH

Espn said nothing about grealish handball against mancity.

Nothing wrong with that statement. They were wronged. Nothing wrong with calling out 'mistakes' that could cost them relegation and financial distress

When you push people to the wall they react. Is it right? No. But the decisions from the PGMOL this season have been absolutely horrific!

The VAR and PGMOL has screwed Liverpool all season, 3 obvious penalties being waived off and i support Forest 100%

Looks like the media are hugely out of sink with the people.

It's like raising voice against a dictator who got their own explanation. Nottingham forest Might be wrong with post but these situations need to be faced, as it might bring changes.