Nottingham Forest owner had to be “removed by security

You have probably witnessed the controversy surrounding Darwin Nunez’s late winner if you have watched any of the post-match coverage of Liverpool’s victory over Nottingham Forest in the national media.

Some players on Nottingham Forest’s bench went crazy in response to Nunez’s game-winning goal, although for much different reasons than Liverpool did.

Many of its employees, including manager Nuno Espirito Santo, stormed onto the field at full time to confront referee Paul Tierney about a call that had been made more than two minutes before to a Liverpool goal.

Following the final whistle, Steven Reid, the coach of Forest, was one of the players that was sent out, getting a red card. Evangelos Marinakis, the owner of Nottingham Forest, was also involved.

BBC journalist Rob Schofield reported: “You rarely see scenes like that in the tunnel.

“We saw Steven Reid getting frustrated, he and Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis pursued Paul Tierney and [the fourth official] Graham Scott all the way to the referees’ office

“[Marinakis was shouting] ‘Honor the players!'” Show the players some courtesy! This occurs each week! Show consideration for the participants!
“At one point, security had to remove Marinakis.”

The decision by the referee to give Liverpool a drop-ball after Ibrahima Konate went down with a head injury caused criticism.

Since Forest was in possession when the whistle blew, they ought to have been given possession by the referee when play resumed.After the incident, Mark Clattenburg, the team’s referee analyst and a previous referee of the Champions League final, stated: “I’ll be sitting down with the board and the owners to try and explain what’s happened and it’s difficult to do that at the moment.”

“We’ll talk about the best course of action shortly after we speak with the Premier League and the PGMOL.”

Forest can complain all they like, but they are failing to acknowledge that the correct outcome of the whole situation would have been a Liverpool free-kick.

This is because Konate was subject to a dangerously high boot from Ryan Yates, which led to the Frenchman going down with the head injury.

You would have thought this be simple to mention and clear up any problems, but it seems mainstream outlets haven’t decided to do this.

Wonder if Nottingham Forest fan Jermaine Jenas may have had some bias in his Match of the Day ‘analysis’?

Ash Rose

@Ashleyrose66

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