After a loss to Everton in April, Nottingham Forest issued a social media post claiming that the referee in the VAR room had avoided awarding a penalty to Forest due to sympathies for a rival team.
The team in question was Luton, with whom Nottingham then and there found themselves in a relegation battle.
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“The referee is a Luton fan”
“Three extremely bad decisions, three penalties we don’t get, which we simply cannot accept. We warned PGMOL (the English refereeing body) that the VAR referee is a Luton fan, but they still didn’t replace him,” the club wrote X.
The post went viral, and was seen by more than 46 million viewers.
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May be fined SEK 10 million
Now the club must be fined a million as punishment for that post.
The fine they are forced to pay is 750,000 pounds, corresponding to roughly 10.1 million kroner.
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