Are you joking Mark Clattenburg? Nottingham Forest reaction to Everton as classless as their supporter chants

Talk about “it takes one to know one” – Mark Clattenburg had more brass neck than C-3PO when he branded the officiating of Everton’s 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest as “a joke.”

Clattenburg was guilty of arguably the most infamous ‘joke’ performance ever at Goodison Park from a referee but nobody in blue was laughing at his appalling handling of the Merseyside Derby on October 20, 2007. At the time of year when many were gearing up for Halloween, the County Durham man-in-the-middle endured a horror show of a display that was so bad that he wasn’t handed another assignment at the ground under David Moyes’ management.

The 49-year-old, who we were told in February has been appointed by Nottingham Forest as the club’s referee lobbyist, has hit out at referee Anthony Taylor and on duty VAR official Stuart Attwell over their handling of Sunday’s game. Hot on the heels of Forest’s threatening tweet sent on the full-time whistle – a petty statement, almost as classless as their fans chanting: “Sign on” towards Evertonians as Beto lay unconscious on the Goodison turf – Clattenburg, in what could be seen as a rather brazen conflict of interest, was sounding off in his Daily Mail column, proclaiming: “One of these errors would have been bad enough. Three was a joke, and that is why Nottingham Forest were left feeling victimised after another defeat in which zero big decisions went their way.

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“In a season where they have had to endure some egregious refereeing, this trip to Everton was as grim a game as they have encountered