Nottingham Forest have called on the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) to release the audio of conversations between the match officials during their defeat to Everton on Sunday. The club believe they should have been awarded three penalties during the match and complained that the video assistant referee was a supporter of relegation rivals Luton. Ashley Young was at the centre of three incidents which Forest felt merited a penalty. There were two alleged fouls and a handball that
Premier League referees could be driven out of the game as a lack of trust in VAR from players is putting them under greater pressure, says former official Mark Clattenburg.
The 40-year-old will officiate a game next weekend, while Sam Allison will become the first black referee in the English top flight since Uriah Rennie in 2008
You begin to wonder if the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd, the presiding body of football referees, are actually trying to kill off Var as quickly as possible. Because every week they manage to come up with new and convoluted ways of making the system look ridiculous. Every week, instead of helping to prove what a beneficial invention this could be, they seek to make it ever more self-destructive.
As part of Howard Webb s drive, as head of refereeing, to improve standards around VAR, pilots and air traffic controllers are helping England s top football officials.