PREM referee chief Howard Webb will admit on Tuesday that Nottingham Forest SHOULD have been awarded a penalty in their controversial defeat to Everton.
Forest are likely to be hit with FOUR charges from the FA for their response to the game at Goodison on April 21.
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The City Ground club insisted they had three penalties unfairly denied by referee Anthony Taylor, all against Ashley Young.
But Forest sent out an inflammatory post on social media, insinuating that VAR Stuart Attwell may have been influenced not to intervene because he is a Luton fan.
It said: “Three extremely wrong decisions – three penalties not given – that we simply cannot accept.
“We warned PGMOL that VAR is Luton fans before the game but they didn’t change it.
“Our patience has been tested several times. The NFFC will now consider its options.”
The club, manager Nuno Espírito Santo, defender Neco Williams and “referee analyst” Mark Clattenburg are all facing charges, while the Premier League is also considering charging Forest for failing to act “with the utmost good faith”. .
It has now emerged that the Prem’s Key Match Incident panel – the group of former players, managers and referees who study all VAR decisions – have ruled that Young’s first “foul” on Claudio Reyna was not a penalty, but rather an appeal for handball did not meet the threshold for intervention.
However, the third incident, in which Taylor deemed Young to have played the ball before making contact with Callum Hudson-Odoi, was “a foul” that Attwell should have seen and told the referee to look at on the pitch monitor and penalize.
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By Dean Scoggins
KAI HAVERTZ has had a difficult start to life at the Emirates following his big-money move from Chelsea.
But now he has really recovered.
The 24-year-old German has found his goalscoring boots in recent weeks, including the double against his former club.
But Havertz has provided much more than goals in recent months.
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And Webb publicly agrees that a mistake was made in analyzing the third penalty shout in the latest monthly edition of “Match Officials Mic’d Up,” filmed Monday night and to be broadcast Tuesday night.
Forest followed up the defeat to Everton with a 2-0 home defeat to Manchester City, extending their winless run to four matches.
They are in 17th place, one point above Luton and two above Burnley, with three games remaining.
Nuno’s side visit relegated Sheffield United on Saturday, before hosting Chelsea on May 11.
They then head to Burnley on the final day in what could be a winner-takes-all fight for survival.
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