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What is their argument gonna be:
"they said we are like a mafia gang, which we need to sue for because we are 100% definitely not a mafia gang"
The Forest Forum is pretty depressing, many of them they are making an incredible stand here vs the problems with VAR and referees in general. They all seemed to miss the part where they excused an official of deliberately cheating to benefit the team he supported.
They also claim that loads of other people are behind them (some tweets) and there is a grand conspiracy between Premier League, The Media, TalkSport, Sky etc. They are all coordinated against plucky little Forest, who should have had a penalty, so called out someone for cheating.
Oh, and some posters even revelling in their owners crimimal links, laughing about how he'll burn down their bakery, or more sinister actions. Will they be celebrating when someone gets hurt, either on their owner's command or just a Forest moron acting alone.

So, assuming Atwell is an England fan, how will they make sure that he doesn't cheat again for the benefit of the team he supports?
He'll be disallowing goals in the group stages to cunningly plot an easier route for England to the final.
His masterplan will be to get all the big teams into one half of the draw, so England can procede comfortably to the final.
Or perhaps we will see his real evil genius at work...making VAR decisions against England, meaning they only finish 2nd in group, but missing all the big teams that he has contrived to end up in the other half! God, he is well dodgy. But brilliant.

What is their argument gonna be:
"they said we are like a mafia gang, which we need to sue for because we are 100% definitely not a mafia gang"
The Forest Forum is pretty depressing, many of them they are making an incredible stand here vs the problems with VAR and referees in general. They all seemed to miss the part where they excused an official of deliberately cheating to benefit the team he supported.
They also claim that loads of other people are behind them (some tweets) and there is a grand conspiracy between Premier League, The Media, TalkSport, Sky etc. They are all coordinated against plucky little Forest, who should have had a penalty, so called out someone for cheating.
Oh, and some posters even revelling in their owners crimimal links, laughing about how he'll burn down their bakery, or more sinister actions. Will they be celebrating when someone gets hurt, either on their owner's command or just a Forest moron acting alone.

So, assuming Atwell is an England fan, how will they make sure that he doesn't cheat again for the benefit of the team he supports?
He'll be disallowing goals in the group stages to cunningly plot an easier route for England to the final.
His masterplan will be to get all the big teams into one half of the draw, so England can procede comfortably to the final.
Or perhaps we will see his real evil genius at work...making VAR decisions against England, meaning they only finish 2nd in group, but missing all the big teams that he has contrived to end up in the other half! God, he is well dodgy. But brilliant.

It's not really a Premier League microcosm - it's a football one, though it is amplified beyond all reason in the premier league.
Footballers and managers exist in an environment where they never have to grow up. They play a game in childhood that someone pays them to do in adulthood, surrounded by similar people and those employed to perfom parental tasks like do the shopping, fix stuff etc.
Whilst this doesn't necessarily apply to all players, there are a lot of children in adult bodies, who never develop emotionally and are used to getting their own way, throwing tantrums etc.
The premier league and media endulge all this like rubbish parents.

To make a somewhat semi serious point though, the stupidity of all this is that on Sunday and yesterday Coventry deserved all the plaudits for the game they made of it at Wembley. Also Leeds vs Boro was another very good game of football last night and deserves credit (with a bit of damnation over both sides defending as well)!
But what are the top of football discussions at the minute? Antony celebrations, VAR decisions, pep moaning of fixture congestion’s and Forest losing the plot. If you want to know what is wrong with the premier league, it’s that they all live in a microcosm where they think we should all care about all these little things that shouldn’t matter over actual games of football.

Or, of course, it could be the fact that nobody outside of West Bridgford is in any way arsed about a couple of marginal decisions and no one has really paid attention to the clubs faux intimidating tantrum

So, assuming Atwell is an England fan, how will they make sure that he doesn't cheat again for the benefit of the team he supports?
He'll be disallowing goals in the group stages to cunningly plot an easier route for England to the final.
His masterplan will be to get all the big teams into one half of the draw, so England can procede comfortably to the final.
Or perhaps we will see his real evil genius at work...making VAR decisions against England, meaning they only finish 2nd in group, but missing all the big teams that he has contrived to end up in the other half! God, he is well dodgy. But brilliant.

This is absolutely what happens when the official club account tweets things to this effect. Instantly legitimised the normal conspiracy nonsense 

I really want them to take legal action. It'd be hilarious. The entire shambles just bringing more and more attention to how pathetically they are behaving.
Likening a tweet that appears to imply a threat to mafia language (the context that everyone understood it to be) is hardly going to fly in court, and if it gets that far, Sky can fund the kinds of lawyers who've seen off much worse.
If anyone should be taking anyone to court it's Atwell for being slandered by forest.
Stamping their wee feets determined clear accounting breeches should be ignored because forest reasons and forest alone have the moral authority to feel hard done to by decisions.....I do hope that appeal delivers justice......
 

What is their argument gonna be:
"they said we are like a mafia gang, which we need to sue for because we are 100% definitely not a mafia gang"
The Forest Forum is pretty depressing, many of them they are making an incredible stand here vs the problems with VAR and referees in general. They all seemed to miss the part where they excused an official of deliberately cheating to benefit the team he supported.
They also claim that loads of other people are behind them (some tweets) and there is a grand conspiracy between Premier League, The Media, TalkSport, Sky etc. They are all coordinated against plucky little Forest, who should have had a penalty, so called out someone for cheating.
Oh, and some posters even revelling in their owners crimimal links, laughing about how he'll burn down their bakery, or more sinister actions. Will they be celebrating when someone gets hurt, either on their owner's command or just a Forest moron acting alone.

Isn't in MLS where they watch one replay in real time, and if they are sure it's wrong decision, they change it. Seems a better way of doing it.
Remember the first World Cup they got VAR in, it was ace. Penalties given for holding in the box, so players stopped doing it. Don't remember any of this penalty handball or offside nonsense.
How did it end up in this mess? Maybe a quick solution is to give teams a couple of appeals like in cricket. Let them use it on anything, corners, yellow cards. They'll use them up in first 2 mins appealing for a throw in.

Just Stop Oil started this 

Bustler also has a record fair on at the same time...
Annoyingly I've had tickets for the game since they came out but now can't make it as I have an MRI scan appointment come through for Saturday morning and I can't really cancel it. Some things are more important than some overpaid prats kicking a ball around 😞

Jesus H 😂
More than anything, though, it is the spoiled and self-entitled response of a club whose owner has a history of this. It is only three years since Olympiakos, also owned by Evangelos Marinakis, criticised the “darkest days of Greek refereeing ever”. A specific target of that criticism was the president of the “central refereeing committee”, who Olympiakos said they were withdrawing “confidence” in. The individual? Mark Clattenburg, who by 2024 Marinakis had enough confidence in to employ as Forest refereeing consultant.

That'll be our very own De Marco I assume.  You know the one they all referred to as a loophole merchant when we used him. 

You shouldn't have moved to the US. You shouldn't have moved to Cornwall.
A true fan would live round the back of Frankie & Benny's, then spend every game moaning at the players, going for food at 35 mins, before leaving on the 80 min mark.

Even better. 😂
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nottingham-forest-fume-gary-nevilles-32647665

Clue's in the name 😜

Forest banter aside, I’m in shock that’s what Ashley young looks like now. He looks about 20. Is that Ashley Young’s kid?

Wonder how many other potential "classic" games are going to be ruined. The use is bad enough but having fans cheer a goal then having to wait minutes for it to be confirmed is killing the game. That Cov v Man U was destined to be remembered as one of the greats. Now just a footnote as another Man U win.

You shouldn't have moved to the US. You shouldn't have moved to Cornwall.
A true fan would live round the back of Frankie & Benny's, then spend every game moaning at the players, going for food at 35 mins, before leaving on the 80 min mark.

Isn't in MLS where they watch one replay in real time, and if they are sure it's wrong decision, they change it. Seems a better way of doing it.
Remember the first World Cup they got VAR in, it was ace. Penalties given for holding in the box, so players stopped doing it. Don't remember any of this penalty handball or offside nonsense.
How did it end up in this mess? Maybe a quick solution is to give teams a couple of appeals like in cricket. Let them use it on anything, corners, yellow cards. They'll use them up in first 2 mins appealing for a throw in.

The club seem very worried about going down. Surely, with all their huge spending they've factored in the impact of a relegation, right?
Obviously, no one wants to go down, but a bit of yo-yoing could be expected for a club like Forest, on their journey to becoming (at least) an established Premier League club?
I guess they were unable to stay within the rules for spending though, hence the points deduction. For their sake, I hope all this spending hasn't left the club/owner in financial ruin if the mighty Forest were somehow, unbelivably, and of course unfairly, relegated!