News from Nottingham Forest as it gets closer to their match against Manchester City and the impact from the Reds’ angry tweet.
Nuno Espirito Santo, the head coach, is optimistic that Nottingham Forest’s recent controversy over officiating calls won’t hurt them in their next games.
The Reds play their first home game against defending champion Manchester City on Sunday, the first of four games they have left to clinch their Premier League survival. But the furious response from Forest following their 2-0 loss at Everton has dominated the build-up to this weekend’s match.
The team gained notoriety for its irate tweet at the end of the game at Goodison Park after three of their penalty requests were rejected. Forest alleged they had “warned” the Professional Game Match Officials Board that Stuart Attwell “is a Luton fan” before the game, therefore casting doubt on his objectivity.
Nuno has emphasized that any criticism directed towards officials is impersonal. And he knows that when they officiate their games, referees won’t be influenced by the controversy or any preconceived notions about the Reds.
They work as professionals. They ought to be impervious, Nuno stated. “Try to be immune to all these things and do their own work; I know it’s not simple. Arrive at the game, get ready, pay attention, and perform their duties well.We’ll enter games with high hopes for our team. Our message and communication are very clear: put everything behind you and concentrate on what is ahead. This is our spirit; it is a spirit of goodwill. We head outside to play football. It should be the duty of others to handle what occurs thereafter.
Nuno acknowledged that feelings sometimes get intense after games and supported the team’s freedom to express themselves on social media. However, he maintained that there was never a plan to target Attwell.
“Certainly, as a club, we never intended to surpass the boundaries,” he continued. Everything has an upper limit, and abusing someone is not the goal. This should cease.
However, please keep in mind that after a football game in which we are fighting for our lives and you witness a great deal of activity, then you watch it again and begin to piece together all of those events, how are you going to maintain composure and declare, “Okay, nothing has happened?” It is incorrect to say that we wish to surpass the boundaries.The name of (the) VAR is the only item that has changed. There have been previous games with errors in which the VAR name was absent. However, it’s not personal.
“The only thing that has changed is that now (the) VAR has a name. There were games (before) with mistakes where we didn’t have the name of VAR. But it’s nothing personal.
“It’s the VAR by himself and the referees and PGMOL who should feel responsible for their mistakes because they are affecting a lot of things and a lot of people, especially the fans. The fans should be respected, they go miles and miles to watch and then they see it. They have phones, they see replays – how can you control that? Don’t blame it on the statement, blame it on the mistake.”
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