Football Daily | Nottingham Forest were hard done by but fanning flames of paranoia helps no one
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It would be far too easy to criticise Nottingham Forest in the wake of their latest self-pitying tirade at the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, which is convenient because that is exactly what Football Daily intends to do. Following their defeat against Everton, a game in which Forest were denied three penalties – one stone-waller and two 50-50 shouts on the tried and trusted Seen-‘Em-Given-O-Meter – the serial whingers from the City Ground published a tweet in which they criticised all three decisions, suggested the PGMOL and the game’s Luton-supporting video assistant referee Stuart Attwell were corrupted and harked back to assorted other decisions they feel have gone against them before pompously signing off by announcing that “NFFC will now consider its options”. And on Monday the club asked the PGMOL to release audio recordings between officials to ensure “the integrity of our sport is upheld”.
I got curious about the footnote which got left in when you pasted some text about Swiss-style tournaments from Wikipedia (Friday’s Football Daily). It points to the URL of a chess website, but when clicked redirects to a site about handicrafts. Having done what Football Daily has taught me and looked at an article on Wikipedia, it seems that through a series of mergers and acquisitions, what remains of that venerable, old chess website lives on as a series of pages deep within the bowels of that handicrafts site. I’ll leave it to my betters to determine if that functions as a metaphor for what has happened to venerable, old cup competitions within the body of modern football” –Kári Tulinius.
Now that Pierre Igot has cracked the winning formula for prizeless letter o’ the day please expect a cascade of 1,057 funny and even more not so funny football clips. This one showcasing Cambridge United’s famously versatile use of body parts is definitely one of the former” – John Kyle.
Congratulations on the ability to post a story (Friday’s Quote of the Day) with Australian content without the prefix of flamin’” – Mike Clarke (and no other flamin’ readers).