Paul Tierney, who was at the centre of a dropped ball controversy in the Nottingham Forest v Liverpool match last Saturday, will not referee a Premier League match this weekend.
Tierney faced criticism after he failed to award a dropped ball to Forest in an attacking area after stopping the match for a head injury to Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate.
Forest did regain possession after Tierney’s error, but conceded a 99th-minute goal which cost them a valuable point in the race for Premier League survival.
Nottingham Forest were unhappy with Paul Tierney not returning the ball to them
Tierney has been selected as the video assistant referee (VAR) for the Arsenal v Brentford match on Saturday evening. Sources close to Professional Game Match Officials Ltd insist Tierney has not been dropped.
He is one of a group of officials who regularly alternate between being referees and VARs.
Former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg, who has been employed by Forest on a consultancy basis as a referee analyst, told BBC Radio 5 Live at the weekend: “(Forest) should have had the ball back. If the referee stops the game, he has to give the ball back to the team in possession. That was Forest.
Mark Clattenburg was critical of Tierney
“When (the ball was) given to the keeper, with Liverpool scoring afterwards, you can see why (Forest) are aggrieved,” Clattenburg added.
“I haven’t spoken to the referee – I’ll leave that to the club. I went to go into the referee’s dressing room (after the game) but he (Tierney) wouldn’t allow it.”
PGMOL is understood not to have received any further correspondence from Forest regarding the incident on Saturday beyond Clattenburg’s comments.
Tierney sent off Forest’s first-team coach Steven Reid after he came onto the pitch at the end of the game to protest. Forest later dismissed reports that club owner Evangelos Marinakis had to be restrained by security staff in the tunnel.
PemiOladapo
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Nottingham Forest are just making a fuss about nothing. Drop ball or no drop ball, if their defender had just used his brain and cleared the ball, there wouldn't have been a goal. All these noises on dropped ball or no drop ball. Sometimes I wonder if it was the same game I watched! Ok was it the dropped ball that led to the goal? Your opponent had a corner kick in the last seconds of play, the corner was taken and headed out, Tsimikas fired a stunner at goal which was blocked, ball came back to a Nottingham Forest player who was struggling with controlling the ball to build up attack instead of kicking the ball as far as possible, the ball rolled on to another Nottingham player who also was interested in building play instead of kicking the damn thing as far as possible, then Macalister was able to snatch the ball and cross it for Nunez to nod in. Instead of educating your players that in the last seconds of play, not conceding is the most essential thing, Nottingham Forest are busy blaming referee for a drop ball! Did the drop ball even directly lead to a goal?
yutcklpstu
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If refs start getting fines and bans like managers and players, we will see less mistakes in EPL. I believe they do it deliberately to help their favorite teams