After a loss to Everton in April, Nottingham Forest posted on social media, 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 Forest were then embroiled in a relegation battle.
"Three extremely poor refereeing decisions, three penalties we didn't get, which we simply cannot accept. We warned PGMOL (the English referees' association) that the VAR referee is a Luton fan, but they still didn't replace him", the club wrote on X.
The post went viral, and was seen by more than 46 million viewers.
Now the club will have to pay a fine of one million as a penalty for the post.
The fine they are forced to pay amounts to 750,000 pounds, equivalent to approximately 10.1 million kronor.
