Nottingham Forest have changed their tune - but big Everton gamble might backfire horribly

Chris Beesley - Forest won't get much sympathy from Blues, or Premier League bosses you'd imagine

Ashley Young said it all with his topical choice of “old skool tunes for today” when he selected Justin Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me a River.’

Not only was Nottingham Forest’s tweet complaining about decisions in their 2-0 defeat to Everton more like the drunken rant of a partisan fan sent around midnight from the ale house than an official club message delivered on the full-time whistle, it also possessed a tone of a vague, menacing threat. Perhaps the Premier League didn’t do themselves any favours by handing VAR duties to someone who is supposedly a fan of relegation rivals Luton Town but it’s quite the jump to question the integrity of officials.

Given the catalogue of dodgy refereeing decisions that have gone against Everton, both this season in particular, and historically under Forest’s ‘referee analyst’ Mark Clattenburg, who made such a hash of handling a Merseyside Derby in 2007, he wasn’t picked to take charge of another game at Goodison Park for over six years, the visitors won’t be getting much sympathy from the Blues. It all seems a bit rich given that the East Midlanders also received a smaller points deduction than Everton despite a bigger financial breach and one which seemed a lot more blatant given that they splashed the cash to the tune of quarter of a billion pounds beefing up their squad for the Premier League with over 40 new recruits after winning promotion while Goodison chiefs have been dramatically tightening their belts in recent years.

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