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No legal action can be taken from that tweet.

It's just emotion. It sounds like it may have come more.or less directly from Marinakis
Oh yes it can. It goes to the reputation of the ref. It says he is a cheat and deliberately and falsely didn’t give us the pens because of Atwell’s affiliation to Luton. It goes straight to reputation
 
There is when countless times this season it's fucking happened , it'll be a huge contributory factor in sending us down if we do drop , literally cost us several points , anyone that can't see that is either blind ,stupid or both .
Everyone can see it.
There is just nothing can be done about it.
 
It’s true though he’s a Luton fan, it’d be a very short trial for defamation given that it’s true.

We have had numerous refs give very poor decisions against us, but to put a Luton fan in charge of VAR is just asking for trouble. The only end result though is we will end up with increasingly large fines.
 
Oh yes it can. It goes to the reputation of the ref. It says he is a cheat and deliberately and falsely didn’t give us the pens because of Atwell’s affiliation to Luton. It goes straight to reputation
It doesn't say he was a cheat or that he falsely didn't give those decisions.

At best it implies unconscious bias

Nothing in it. The threshold for this is high in this country
 
That tweet is just the epitome of not letting a cooler head prevail. It was a stupid thing to do and we gain nothing from it.
Have to agree.

You can guarantee that we won't be getting any better decisions against City as a result of it.

In fact, decisions are getting worse the more we push back
 
It’s true though he’s a Luton fan, it’d be a very short trial for defamation given that it’s true.
Not correct. The clear implication is that he cheated. Unless the club can properly and legally justify that innuendo they are bang to rights. They’ll be apologising by the end of the week
 
Next tweet:

"Ok we've looked at our options and it appears that there aren't any.
Sorry about that.
Forest."

What an embarrassment.
We lost 2-0 and hardly looked like scoring 2 goals ourselves. We should have played better. Unfortunately we just don't have anything in front of goal sometimes. Maybe the manager and the team should have a word with themselves before blaming everyone else.
 
Chelsea mate of mine just messaged ...."Bloody hell just watched Forest game .3 penalties yiou should have had"
Every fucking **** can see it apart from the people that decide apparently.
 
So what’s the point of that tweet? To make that allegation against Atwell is serious stuff. In theory defamatory. Legal action if he wanted it .
Its not at Atwell its at the PGMOL. Is it negligent that they didn't switch Atwell when we pointed out that he's a Luton fan?
 
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What an embarrassment.
We lost 2-0 and hardly looked like scoring 2 goals ourselves. We should have played better. Unfortunately we just don't have anything in front of goal sometimes. Maybe the manager and the team should have a word with themselves before blaming everyone else.
We had 2 very good chances, on another day would have buried both and arguably could have had 3 pennos.
 
It doesn't say he was a cheat or that he falsely didn't give those decisions.

At best it implies unconscious bias

Nothing in it. The threshold for this is high in this country
Pope you are wrong on this. You don’t need a direct allegation/statement I.e Atwell cheated because he is an Luton fan. Innuendo is enough.

Next tweet will be club apologising
 
We had 2 very good chances, on another day would have buried both and arguably could have had 3 pennos.
We needed to turn up today. We needed to be at 100%, fully firing, aggressive and hard.

In the end Everton didn't even need to play slightly well to beat us 2-0.

I'm as sick of the decisions as anyone else, but you know what I'm really furious about? We sacked a manager who could get us up for these games when we needed it and brought in someone who can't, and now we are weak as fuck. I'm sick of the 'yeah but we made chances' when we come away with a point or nothing.

Those chances aren't going to help us come the end of the season.
 
Its not at Atwell its at the PGMOL. Is it negligent that they didn't switch Atwell when we pointed out that he's a Luton fan.
Ok so what if he is a Luton fan. Are they suggesting he was incapable of doing his job impartially?