Nottingham Forest, who demanded that the audio between Stuart Attwell and on-field referee Anthony Taylor be made public, will be able to listen to the VAR recording from Sunday’s 2-0 loss at Everton. It maintains that Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) has nothing to conceal.
The head of Forest’s media department was spotted to step in and convince them against it, though, as she was worried it would cause a diversion in the second half and provoke criticism from the football authorities.
The Premier League and the FA are presently looking into a statement that Forest released soon after the 2-0 loss to Everton, in which they questioned the reliability of Stuart Attwell, the PGMOL, and criticized the PGMOL.
Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the body that oversees officiating, is said to have nothing to conceal and will grant the club the right to hear the audio in private, just like it would to any other club requesting anything similar.
The question of whether this audio will also be included in the upcoming “Match Officials Mic’d Up” episode, which airs on Sky Sports on Tuesday night, has not yet been decided.
In addition, Forest has demanded that the regulations governing the selection of officials for duty be changed so that more officials are prohibited from officiating games that may directly affect the team they personally support.
Due to their unusual reaction to the three denied penalty appeals, Forest has run the risk of facing penalties from the Premier League and the Football Association.
The Premier League stated that it was “never appropriate to improperly question the integrity of match officials” and expressed its “extreme disappointment” at the statement.
The league announced that it was looking into the situation in light of the league’s regulations, which provide that teams and their representatives must act in good faith as per B.15 and B.16.
In a follow-up statement made on Monday night, Forest demanded that the guidelines governing referee allegiances be revised to take “contextual rivalries in the league table” into consideration.
Officials have already stated that they will not referee games for that team or any other team, not even the club’s direct local competitors. For instance, Michael Oliver has said in the past that he cannot officiate Newcastle games because he is a supporter.
The teams that members of their immediate family support have an impact on appointments in addition to performance and the number of games an official oversees for a certain team.
In addition to filling appointments for Championship refereeing, PGMOL takes all of these into account and attempts to allocate the best officials from a pool of seventy to seventy-five to each Premier League games.
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