Nottingham Forest have been fined £750,000 by the Football Association (FA) for April’s social media post that questioned the integrity of official Stuart Attwell after their defeat to Everton. The “ill-chosen and irresponsible” post was deemed to constitute improper conduct by an independent regulatory commission as it implied actual bias against video assistant referee (VAR) Attwell.

Forest felt they should have been awarded several penalties in a defeat to Everton towards the end of last season

Nottingham Forest fined after criticising VAR Stuart Attwell on social media - The club appeared to imply that the official was biased in a posst on X in April