Nottingham Forest are 'considering their options' after releasing a strongly worded statement laying out their anger over three decisions which went against them during Sunday afternoon's 2-0 Premier League defeat at Everton.
Forest were aggrieved not to be awarded penalties on three separate occasions as match referee Anthony Taylor waved away their appeals and was backed by VAR Stuart Attwell.
A post on the club's official X account read: "Three extremely poor decisions - three penalties not given - which we simply cannot accept.
"We warned the PGMOL that the VAR is a Luton fan before the game, but they didn't change him. Our patience has been tested multiple times.
"NFFC will now consider its options."
Everton's Ashley Young appeared fortunate to escape three penalty claims against him and Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo told Sky Sports afterwards: "We've tried to ignore it but so many times it's repeating - bad decisions against us... not given.
"It's very difficult to control the players and ask them to be focused and me myself to be composed, because it's been very hard. The situation we are in doesn't help. We have some stress and fear but that is not an excuse.
"It's been clear what has been happening to us, not only in this game. I saw the images, It's hard to take, the players see the images. It's a penalty on Gio Reyna, it's a kick. It's a handball, the incident with Callum (Hudson-Odoi).
"It's understandable we react like this as a club because we want to get things right.
"We don't want bad referees. We want good decisions. OK (if) the game we lost and there were no incidents we'd take it (and say) we didn't play well enough but we did things right in the right moments and we've been disappointed by bad decisions."
The Forest boss added: "If we look at what is happening to us and count the situations we had, those decisions could mean points.
"These things, it's hard to take. We feel they are taking things away from us and it's very hard not to react to it."
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