Nottingham Forest are really playing with fire

NOTTINGHAM FOREST'S incendiary post about refereeing decisions in the aftermath of their defeat to Everton on Sunday has been viewed over 43 million times, making it one of football's most successful examples of rage-tweeting.

- Dan Kilpatrick

To recap, minutes after full-time in their 2-0 defeat to fellow strugglers Everton, Forest's official X account claimed they had warned referees' body, the PGMOL, that VAR Stuart Attwell "is a Luton fan" before the game, and added that the club would "consider its options" after "three extremely poor decisions".

Attwell-who, incidentally, is considered competent enough by Uefa to be a VAR at this summer's European Championship- decided against overruling referee Anthony Taylor following three incidents involving Everton's Ashley Young in the penalty box.

Any sympathy Forest deserved was immediately diminished by the club's embarrassing post-match tweet and subsequent statements. Forest essentially insinuated that Attwell is a cheat whose judgement was influenced by his association with relegation rivals Luton.