Theres no integrity to question, what a disgraceful performance by VAR

Skysports trying to do the ultimate salvation job here. All football fans are in agreement and Skysports are making themselves look more corrupt with every video. 💰💰💰💰💰

They raised their concerns *before* the game though. Then this happened! You can’t then blame them for questioning his integrity afterwards, and if you don’t think his integrity can be questioned, then at the very least his competence should be questioned! Either way, Forest aren’t wrong

These Sky Sports pundits are owned by the PGMOL. Complete oxygen wasters.

How much was sky sports paid to *shut the fans up😂 bunch of bullies

Forest is being attacked by this corrupt system because they pointed at the elephant in the room 😂😂

Pgmol has been talking about this and done nothing about their mistakes. All supporters need to support forest

To say he made a mistake is wrong. He made three mistakes, that is a pattern.

The fact attwell is a luton fan because of where luton are in the table attwell should not of been anywhere near that game there was 4 matches he could of reffed none would of really benefitted luton

I’m with forest on this. They raised it before the game , they’ve had shocking decisions go against them this season. What else are they suppose to do.

"he didn't mean to do it" WTF

The way they're talking it's like they're at gunpoint cause they can't say the wrong thing. Forest are in the right, we all agreed that Liverpool should've had that goal allowed, arsenal have been hard done by and forest got robbed yesterday too. The season has been tarnished by VAR again!

We told them before the game there was a Luton fan on VAR… of course we can call out his integrity.

It's quite simple, It's either Incompetence or Collusion. If you are saying that Attwell doesn't make mistakes and is very capable, then it must raise a few questions over his integrity.

It's not just incompetence, it feels like there's corruption going on at this point.

Gone too far!? Not far enough for the damage the pgmol have done this season

Mike Riley (the VAR) said about the Chelsea-Spurs match in Aug 22 referred by Anthony Taylor; "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'd already had." From that point forward, integrity can certainly be questioned.

Can you explain what the VAR actually did yesterday? Not once did they stop the game and show slow motion replays etc with the purple VAR sign, all the decisions brushed aside by VAR

making a error is one thing, but making 3 in a row is corrupt.

Luton are not in Champions League Dermot you fool

The fact that pgmol have turned off their comments on Instagram shows what the fans think of them 😂 it’s not just the one game, it’s not just one game a month it’s every other game! It’s ruining football. It’s corrupt asf it’s so blatant to see and the fact sky sports back it up is even more embarrassing trying to control the fans opinion! We all fed up and sick of it!! No wonder online content creators are becoming more popular. Mainstream media = corruption

These muppets are so full of crap, it's like the concept of unconscious bias doesn't exist.

I’ve said it many, many times; Anthony Taylor should not be refereeing in EPL.

If a supposedly competent referee makes what is generally agreed as 2 wrong decisions out of 3 penalty calls, one must must question his integrity, as what other factors is there?

The world that we are living in is a complete mess when it becomes wrong to question someone's integrity.

I think all clubs must stand together and get rid of the corrupt officials.The apologize after matches are played but,the points are lost

Attewell and Taylor are at best INCOMPETENT!

Atwell isn't capable, he's not fit to do the job...he's absolutely rotten

Why is it wrong to question someone integrity? Because he is English or a nice person. I have known very nice people who were English and have been corrupt. All bad people don’t wear black hats. Everyone should always be questioning these people’s integrity and trips to the UAE to be paid stupid money do not help

The fact that this sort of stuff has happened far too many times it cannot simply be ignored. PGMOL has a lot to answer for.

Clearly, it does not work Dermott 😒

The minute you stop asking questions is the minute you can be taken advantage of. There are no wrong questions. There should be no one involved in officiating a game that have any personal interest in the outcome of the result. By making that appointment the PGMOL give justifiable cause for questions to be raised. It's simply outrageous to suggest otherwise.

That last penalty decision is one I cannot get over. It is the most blatant penalty I’ve ever seen. Young comes through the back of Hudson adoi, doesn’t get the ball and trips his ankle. There is clear contact. So that is blatant corruption I cannot accept that is a mistake it’s not possible 😂😂😂😂

What do you mean? "he didn't mean to do it" 3 😢 decisions!!!

All of them are jerks and saving officials for making blatant errors

Forrest loosing was better than a draw for Luton because it keeps them closer

I’m old enough to remember the majority of people wanting VAR so it would stop inquisitions like this every week by pundits, it’s literally made it worse. The game has been ruined and it will never be the same

I like how a few analysts think they are correct but all football fans are screaming your wrong

I love Sue, I'd battle to death for her, but there's no way I can take a side against Forest here. Theres no club statement that can me ever think that thr referees in the EPL are doing a good job. I 100% stand with Forest. It's painful that each time these people are paid to prefer that we side with the referees.

Integrity gets question when not one or 2 but 3 clear cut penalties are ignored. That can’t be a mistake!

The referring standards are atrocious. Whilst I don’t agree with Notts Forest tweet, these on going referee mistakes can’t continue. Time for refs to improve. The current bunch of refs and VAR are not preforming to an acceptable standard.

What integrity. They were 3 blatant penalties. Attwell should be sacked.

This has to be the most awkward segment on Sky Sports. The presenter reads like he’s just learnt the English language and Dermot is as good as a man short. Don’t mind the other two blokes though..

I'm an Everton fan. Many Evertonians have commented this season, with more justification or not, that Everton haven't been awarded penalties when they should have been. I try to look those incidents as objectively as possibly and many times I haven't, in my mind, agreed with the penalty shouts of many other Evertonians. For example the kick by a Bournemouth player against Dominic Calvert-Lewin was in the mind of many Evertonians a clear penalty. But I thought it would have been a quite "soft" penalty decision, and I can understand it was not given. After saying that, imo not any of those three incidents by Ashley Young warranted a penalty. Both his "kicks" were minor contacts and the "hand-ball" touched unintentionally his arm. And moreover, surely it would have been much more justifiable to give a penalty from the Calvert-Lewin incident than any of those three connected with Young. The English football matches have been admired all over the world for many decades by the manner they are played: along the skill the endeavour and the fighting spirit and the "never-say-die" attitude. We all have also endorsed the mentality not to give "soft" penalties!!!! Unfortunately that has somewhat changed with the VAR. Nowadays there are too many too lightly given penalties after the VAR check. The modern game is so fast that you can't penalise every minor "kick" or hand-ball in the box (the latter should be penalised only if a player raises deliberately his arm trying to stop the ball). The only situations where "soft" penalties are not yet given, are the pushing incidents, and that is good. One more thing, that has nearly "killed the game", have been the too narrow offside lines. It's a real travesty that a good build-up goal can be afterwards disallowed by a marginal offside! It has killed much of the enjoyment of the whole game when you can't instantly fully celebrate a goal. Many times you can sigh of relief only after and if the VAR check informs onside. Or alternatively there is a huge disappointment if the goal has been chalked away by a "millimeters" offside! The lines should be so broad that everybody could see in a still picture if the player was offside. Hopefully the new on-coming technology will correct this.

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.”

All three were pens and the top six would have had all three

As an Everton fan I am amazed with the (non intentional) handball. It is the type of offence that gets you a free goal even when the ball was going no where near the back of the net, so based on that something should have been given. The other two are questionable. Everton have been in that position so many times and NOT recieved any attention from the ref/VAR. I dont think NF have done themselves any favours by going public the way they did. I am sure there are formal protocols for this type of situation. As a result, they are more likely to get any action resisted than acted upon.

Some absolute shockers from VAR this season and the reality is it has affected who will win the title, who will get relegated and more. Integrity of the sport severely damaged. It’s a shambles.

This made me squirm watching, how can we have an automotive system that relies on human decisions and expect the system to be any better? My mind is blown

How can any football fan trust these VAR officials? when we have had Mike Dean admitting he was protecting "his mate" when he done nothing for the Cucurella hair pulling incident in Chelsea v Spurs game a couple of seasons a go! VAR has failed so badly, the way it is implemented is a complete joke. The 2 fouls for Forrest were clear pens, for me, the handball one is debatable but the fact that the referee was not sent to the screen to look at any of them stinks!

Who is producing this show??? Why the awkwardness and pauses .... absolutely crap ......

"Wrong to question Attwell's integrity" Why? This is like playing poker with the referees and now one of the participants have accused them of hiding cards in their sleeves and instead of just showing the sleeves and proving the accusations wrong, they've gone on a crusade to accuse everyone wanting clarity of the situation of wrongdoing. This all is just making the referees look more guilty and Sky Sports an accessory, instead of being journalists trying to find the truth about the situation.

Poor referees poor VAR especially Anthony Taylor

"Wrong to question Attwell's integrity" ??? no it's not, Refs should come out and explain why the make such decisions or hold up there hands when they make mistakes, they need to be held more accountable, we also should be able to here when var is talking to the ref too

Ask Cucerella why.

"Wrong to question Attwell's integrity" why when officials make such ridiculous decisions - you SHOULD QUESTION THEIR INTEGRITY Spin Spin Spin

It's one of two things, either the PGMOL puts consistently incompetent refs in charge of decisions, which means they need to be stepped down or they are complicit in the biased decisions or lack thereof, which means they are corrupt.

They didn’t question the integrity. The just said that they informed the pgmol of Stewart’s preferred club. The pgmol decided not to do anything and their man messed up 2/3 times. So are NF stating what they had tried to have done, correlation isn’t causation but it puts the question to find out. When they release the audio, it will show incompetency that in any other job could be grounds for termination(repetitive failures by officials). Even worse they fail when they have slow motion, replay, and loads of angles. But can’t handle making their buddy’s look bad

On Luton fans wanting a draw, they only need to be ahead of 1 of the teams in question so a defeat for the one with lower points is better than a draw. They would have wanted Forest to lose.

Attwell is either incompetent or biased. They've argued he's neither but at the same time that VAR has had a shocker. 🤷 The football boys club, Premier League, FA, Sky and PGMOL all in bed together to keep the money rolling 💸.

Too many major VAR mistakes this season. Somebody needs to take responsibility for these gross errors, so why doesn't Howard Webb do the honourable thing and resign.

If he's that good at his job and that consistent at making correct calls, what else do you do but question his integrity? Do top officials make 3 errors like that?

I’m with Forest on this one. Maybe they didn’t need to say the bit about Luton, but they are fully within in their rights to say something about VAR because its awful.

In no way shape or form should an official who is a supporter of a team be involved in a game that has consequences for the team they support.

So if you all say the ref is qualified, experienced and active as a VAR, yet also makes three horrible decisions, doesn't that make it all the more agreeable to question his integrity? After all, you just pointed out that there is no reason whatsoever to question his ability and yet he gets it wrong three times against the same team who warned before the game that the guy was not reliable.

Anthony Taylor, Paul Tierney, Stewart Attwell, why do we know these names? Because of their calls and how aggregous their actions are. The whole lot of referees in the UK need to be examined for their biases. And you wonder why the Roma fans were after Anthony Taylor in the airport, if he was calling the game fairly they would not have tried to hurt him.

Flatten burg is a spokesman for Nottingham Forest who it’s plain to see have been at the wrong end of too many wrong decisions. I therefore believe that Battenberg is correct to highlight this. And you lot can pontificate all day, you should be focussing on the terrible decisions which are clearly happening to certain clubs more than others, namely the ones lower down the table. “I don’t like the statement from Nottingham Forest” well tough, are they not free to speak out? I’ve watched every game, two major decisions have gone in Forests favour all season, but I’ve lost count of the numbers of bad decisions that have gone the other way

"as a luton fan youd want a draw" - great referees can only shape a game so far. Its not like they can dictate the result but they can weigh the game against a single side if they want to.

Skysport are balls deep in PGMOL and FA. Every fan has a sympathy for Forest bar Luton and Everton fans. I wonder how much money do they get to shield these refs.

Blah blah blah!!! 3 penalties=0 penalties, nothing to see here.

You can question integrity? Sounds awfully authoritarian to me.

Carpal tunnel syndrome from scrolling down to find anyone that agrees with Sky besides their employees

We get it, it's wrong to question Attwell's integrity. Let's instead focus on him being completely unfit for purpose, grossly incompetent, and in at least this instance displayed an unfathomable dereliction of duty.

And then forest go down because of a ref decision....I would then sue PGMOL and then get rid of them and VAR and start again. They are truly a joke

Why would Luton want a draw? Surely an Everton win is more favourable to Luton?

If its not integrity then it's incompetence, either way needs investigating, sick to death of this every week VAR isn't fit for purpose and ruining the game

We pointed out the elephant in the room of corruption in the PGMOL, and we are getting executed for the greater good.

The options are he's incompetent or he was unable to stay impartial... You can't have both. And I think the bigger issue is people say these issues will balance out through the year but forest have not had that balance. I'm not saying they're the only team with bad decisions but it's clearly not working

This has put Forest Fans over the edge. This isnt the first time this year. But now its getting ridiculous.

Even refrees in FIFA would have given all three of them.( 2 of the 3, if you have handball pens off). Disgraceful VAR. What a joke

What does sympathy buy you… call a spade a spade… how do you know he didn’t mean to do it. One person literally made 3 errors and you can’t question their integrity. Please stop peddling nonsense

Based on the fact he’s been a professional referee this kind of mistake in a game of this nature his integrity is in question. If it isn’t ethical then it’s negligence he should face some form of critic. And he should answer those questions. Why in this game he made multiple mistakes

If you cannot call-out ones integrity you will get bias and probable corruption. PGMOL should note, to most fans, the PGMOL comes across as a bunch of amateurs refereeing the professional game.

I agree wholeheartedly with Nottingham Forest about Atwell. I am a Wolves supporter and Atwell has been a disgrace on a number of occasions in games refereed involving our team. This man should be stripped of his status as a Premier League Referee.

Just dreadful officials all season. I am a Luton fan, every side has been affected. Doesn't make it right though. The officials and VAR needs review

The first 2 were iffy and could probably go either way based on the on field decision. The last one, on the other hand, really needed to be reviewed.

Its never wrong to question anything if its completely and utterly wrong the refs and var are not above accountability

This idea Luton wanted a draw...Why, that puts Everton 3 pts ahead and Forest 2. The best result was an Everton Win. This means Forest stays just 1pt ahead and Everton are almost safe and guess where Luton can pick up points from a "safe" team...at Everton. If Everton lost then they'd probably need to beat Luton.?

What referees DO EVERY week is FAR WORSE than what Forest SAID.

All four of these look scared and guilty please watch there body language hands & eyes

clubs need to make theses statements or its just gonna get sweeped away again every time it does football and fans loose, the FA cup has been ruined also the premier league by refs

What a joke. Call a donkey a donkey. These refs are absolutely useless. They have no clue on what their jobs are. var is not there to agree with the onfield ref, but to assist him in making the correct decisions

WHY DO THEY KEEP DEFENDING VAR WHY JUST TOO KEEP CONTROLLING FULL TIME RESULTS

What a load of rubbish. Why would Luton want a draw? That means both teams above them pull away. They only need to beat one of them and Forest is the closest.

These kind of intergity test need to happen to correct the VAR errors, No any point discussing at this time, club has entitled to say its opinion where it right or wrong, like four here.

Why shouldn't Artwell's integrity be questioned? If you make too many outrageous decisions, people's minds go as far as thinking that you were bought. The problem is that these analysts want to look good on TV, whilst singing they all sing from the same hymn sheet. No one wants to say something different to avoid being cancelled. Have some integrity yourselves. Tell the truth.

Ah, my comment was hidden highlighting Corruption by Proxy and why and how it occurs.

Premier League is looking to be a fix. It seems ok to have incompetence in the game. Let’s hand over the person with the most charges the trophy every season and forget ever playing every game.

I'm so glad a club finally had the minerals to call out a cheating referee, it happens nearly every week.

This is bad it makes football and var look stupid instead of denying it make it right I feel for forest fans right now