A word on Joe Gomez. Slotted into a high pressure game at the 6 when players like Fabinho and Endo took months to figure it out. His role in this season is probably as great as that of any of this amazing group of players
Mark Clattenburg ‘fronting up’ in the Nottingham Forest mixed zone was a new one on me today. Maybe I’m now ‘yer da’ but it’s a bit weird that a Premier League club seemingly have their own judge and juror over referees’ performance. Not like Clattenburg to seek attention either.
Those complaining about Konate supposedly feigning a head injury or Liverpool not giving the ball back to Forest, clearly missed the part where Ryan Yates should have been given a red card for a dangerous ‘kung fu’ kick on him! It should have been an LFC free kick anyway! 🤔
Nottingham Forest players and Community Trust must be so proud of the poverty mocking chants from the home fans at the game against Liverpool today.
Fans lucky enough they can afford to go to a game laughing at people who can’t afford to eat. https://t.co/lXUm3WYiaV
I really struggle to understand what Forest are trying to achieve with a refereeing analysis role. As a sports club, the refereeing is not within their remit. Well done Clattenburg for inventing a paycheck where there should never ever be one
Mark Clattenburg, the former Premier League referee who is now working in a refereeing analysis role for Nottingham Forest spoke following controversy at the end of their game with Liverpool⬇️
A Liverpool rally down the Pier Head in 1984 to support the striking miners
Yet here’s Nottingham singing “sign on” 40 years later to us.
Said it before, nothing worse than a working class traitor, you’re doing the Tories dirty work for them.
Says so much about the mindset of all the officials involved on Saturday that they thought the best way to deal with that situation was to swear to each other and carry on like it never happened, rather than put it right less than 30 seconds later.
Referees have leeway and can officiate based on the Laws of the Game and the ‘spirit of the game’.
But not for restarts. Which is all part of the archaic thinking that was in place when people were trying to stop technology being introduced. The big blocker was always about how to stop and restart a game after a potential incident.
What would have happened if they had restarted it? Would they have to have two weeks off, or would they have got some praise for using their discretion?
English football is a joke, run by people who hate it.